Autumn in New York (song)

For the 2000 film directed by Joan Chen, see Autumn in New York (film). For the 1950 album by Jo Stafford, see Autumn in New York (Jo Stafford album).

"Autumn in New York"
Music by	Vernon Duke
Written	1934
Language	English
Form	Jazz standard

"Autumn in New York" is a jazz standard composed by Vernon Duke in 1934 for the Broadway musical Thumbs Up! which opened on December 27, 1934, performed by J. Harold Murray. Several versions of the song have been recorded over the years by numerous musicians and singers, beginning with Billie Holiday in 1945.

Jazz versions have been performed by Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Stan Kenton, Sarah Vaughan and Sheila Jordan. A duet of the song was also recorded by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Among the instrumental performances of the tune is a legendary version by guitarist Tal Farlow.

Notable recordings

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

1945 – Billie Holiday
1946 – Charlie Parker
1947 – Frank Sinatra
1947 – Bud Powell
195? – Arthur Godfrey
195? – Gunnar Johnson
195? – Shafi Hadi Sextet
1951 – Barbara Carroll
1951 – Charles Mingus
1951 – Charlie Mariano
1951 – Mary Lou Williams
1951 – Stan Kenton
1952 – Modern Jazz Quartet
1952 – Oscar Peterson
1952 – Teddy Wilson
1952 – Dan Terry and His Orchestra
1953 – Bob Freeman Trio
1953 – Buddy DeFranco
1953 – Johnny Smith
1953 – Sal Salvador
1953 – Sonny Stitt
1954 – Buddy Banks and Bobby Jaspar
1954 – Chet Baker
1954 – Clifford Brown
1954 – Gene Krupa
1954 – Shelly Manne
1954 – Tal Farlow
1955 – Bobby Short
1955 – George Wallington
1955 – Hampton Hawes
1955 – Johnny Costa
1955 – Lawrence Brown
1956 – Ella Fitzgerald
1956 – Jeri Southern
1956 – Kenny Dorham
1956 – Louis Armstrong
1956 – Norrie Paramor
1956 – Phineas Newborn
1956 – Sanford Gold
1956 – Sarah Vaughan
1957 – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
1957 – Frank Sinatra
1957 – Al Haig
1958 – Ahmad Jamal
1958 – André Previn
1958 – Kenny Burrell
1958 – Red Callender
196? – Enoch Light and Command All-Stars
1960 – Roosevelt Wardell
1961 – Ramsey Lewis
1962 – The Three Sounds
1962 – Walt Dickerson
1963 – Johnny Mathis
1963 – Mel Tormé
1964 – Caterina Valente
1965 – Jimmy Roselli
1971 – Shirley Bassey
1972 – Art Van Damme
1974 – George Shearing
1974 – Tete Montoliu
1975 – Stéphane Grappelli with Slam Stewart
1976 – Larry Coryell
1977 – George Coleman
1978 – Dudley Moore Trio
1979 – Chico Freeman
1980 – Adam Makowicz
1980 – Dardanelle
1981 – Heath Brothers
1981 – Marian McPartland
1981 – Warren Vaché
1982 – Gordon Lee
1983 – New York Pops
1983 – Great Jazz Trio
1983 – Jay McShann
1984 – Kenny Barron
1985 – Fumio Karashima
1985 – Jonathan & Darlene Edwards
1985 – Tiziana Ghiglioni with Melillo
1986 – Niels Lan Doky
1986 – Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra
1987 – Al Cohn
1987 – Paul Cacia
1988 – Cedar Walton & the VIP Trio
1988 – Roland Hanna
1988 – Yehudi Menuhin
1989 – Harry Connick, Jr.
1989 – Louis Hayes Sextet
1990 – Cecil Brooks III
1990 – Claude Williamson Trio
1990 – Eddie Harris Quartet
1990 – Richard Rodney Bennett
1990 – Steve Kuhn
1991 – Massimo Urbani
1991 – Rosemary Clooney
1991 – Walter Bishop, Jr.
1992 – Greg Gisbert
1992 – Jeff Linsky
1992 – Paul Weston
1992 – Ray Anthony Orchestra
1993 – Curtis Fuller
1993 – Indigo
1993 – Susan Freeman
1993 – The Manhattan Project
1994 – Sandra King
1994 – Franco d'Andrea, Giovanni Tommaso and Roberto Gatto
1994 – Allan Vache
1994 – Errol Parker
1994 – Hideaki Yoshioka
1994 – Jo Stafford
1994 – Joe Lovano and Aldo Romano
1994 – Martin Litton
1995 – Anthony Braxton and Mario Pavone
1995 – Bill Broughton & Orchestra of the Americas
1995 – Bireli Lagrene, Minh Doky Nder and Ceccarelli
1995 – Mark Whitfield
1995 – Naima
1995 – Phil Woods, Vincent Herring, Antonio Hart
1996 – Anders Persson Trio
1996 – Bill Mays
1996 – Claude Gordon
1996 – David "Fathead" Newman
1996 – Dennis Rowland
1996 – Ewan Svensson Trio
1996 – Ralph Marterie
1996 – The Hi-Lo's
1996 – The Sentimental Strings
1996 – Valery Ponomarev
1997 – Alvaro Is Rojas
1997 – Bruce Barth
1997 – Carol Kidd
1997 – Carol Sloane & Clark Terry
1997 – Frederick Washington, Jr.
1997 – Kimiko Itoh
1997 – Nat Simpkins
1997 – Putte Wickman
1997 – Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass
1998 – Arthur Prysock
1998 – Dexter Gordon
1998 – Ebony Big Band
1998 – Lena Horne
1998 – Mark Turner
1998 – Paul Kendall
1998 – Singers Unlimited
1998 – Sweet Jazz Trio
1999 – David Liebman and John Scofield
1999 – David Murray
1999 – Dawn Upshaw
1999 – Helge = Helge Schneider
1999 – Martin Taylor, David Grisman, Acoustic Jazz Quartet
1999 – Ron Affif
1999 – Sun Ra
2000 – Mark Turner and Tad Shull
2000 – Al Porcino
2000 – Buddy Weed
2000 – Charlie Byrd
2000 – Elly Rosenthal
2000 – Jamey Aebersold
2000 – John Stetch
2000 – Mike Hatchard and Herbie Flowers
2000 – Russ Peterson
2000 – Si Perkoff
2000 – The Drummonds
2000 – Yvonne Washington
2001 – Andy Ezrin
2001 – Armando Noriega
2001 – Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt
2001 – Saisa
2001 – Susan Sutton Trio
2001 – The Pete Cater Big Band
2001 – Polly Bergen
2002 – Ann Crumb
2002 – Karen Mason
2002 – Lisa Ives
2002 – Lol Coxhill
2002 – Lori Bell
2002 – Marcel Azzola and Dany Doriz
2002 – Percy Faith
2002 – Ron Eschete
2002 – The Dutch Jazz Orchestra & Jerry van Rooyen
2002 – Carl Saunders
2003 – Bobby Hackett
2003 – Charlie Spivak
2003 – Christine Andreas
2003 – Donald Brown
2003 – Gianni Basso and Roberto Sellani
2003 – Jim Hartog
2003 – Joe Augustine
2003 – Joe Wilder
2003 – John Hicks and Elise Wood
2003 – Pete Malinverni
2003 – Roger Rosenberg
2003 – Sheila Jordan
2003 – Stevie Holland
2003 – Theano
2004 – Eileen Mager
2009 – Frode Kjekstad
2009 – Heath Brothers

External links

Song information at JazzStandards.com

Autumn in New York (song)

Notable recordings

See also

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