Top Ten Most Played Jazz Tunes

I was playing around with my Ipad and learned that this is mylist of most played Jazz Tunes:

"Money Jungle" by Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus, and Max Roach
"I'll Play the Blues for You" by Jason Moran
"A Night in Tunisia" by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
"Street Sounds" by Charlie Hunter
"My Favorite Things" by John Coltrane
"Blue Train" by John Coltrane
"Blue Monk" by Thelonius Monk
"St. James Infirmary" by Hot Lips Page
"There's No You" by Coleman Hawkins
"Testifyin'" by Benny Green

First off, I am surprised who is missing. There are no songs from Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, or Errol Garner.

Second, I am not surprised that Coltrane and Hawkins are on the list as I have been listening to those guys for twenty years!

Third, it confirmed my love for saxophone and piano jazz. The surprise is that Charlie Hunter and Art Blakey snuck in there!

What are your top ten played (not necessarily your favorite) jazz tunes?

Toni Morrison and Snooki: More Evidence of the Decline of Higher Education

The USA today just announced that Rutgers paid Snooki (of Jersey Shore fame) more money for a talk on campus than they will pay Toni Morrison (Nobel Prize winner) to give their commencement address. Both are being paid well (over $30,000) but the very idea that somehow bringing Snooki to a major college costs more than bringing Morrison and that this has happened at a major research university suggests how very wrong things are in higher education! This is not a critique of Rutgers because I think this could happen almost anywhere. It just makes me sigh!