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Friday, March 28, 2025

Show Tunes or Jazz standards?

Once in the coffee shop at Stanford I was with someone I knew, I think it was Stephen Vineberg? or a similar name, and we were identifying every song that was being played, maybe by someone playing piano there? I don't remember.  And my friend was saying, 'you know a lot of show tunes" and I was like, I don't think of those as show tunes but as jazz standards.  Of course, we were both right.  I didn't know the songs in their original context, as songs from musical comedies, but as songs played a lot by jazz musicians.  

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