Yesterdays (1933 song)

"Yesterdays" is a 1933 song about nostalgia^[1] composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Otto Harbach. They wrote the song for Roberta, a musical based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller. "Yesterdays" was overshadowed by the musical production's more popular song, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", which was a number one hit for the Paul Whiteman orchestra.^[2]

• Artie Shaw and his Orchestra (1938) (RCA-Victor mx. BS-027231, take 1; Rel. Bluebird B-10001-B)
• Billie Holiday (1939) and 1952 recording
• Coleman Hawkins (1944)^[2]
• Jo Stafford with Paul Weston – Songs by Jo Stafford (1946)
• Lee Konitz with Miles Davis – Conception (1949)^[3]
• Art Tatum – Piano Starts Here (1949)^[2]
• Lennie Tristano – Crosscurrents (1949)^[2]
• Bud Powell – Jazz Giant (1950)^[4]
• Miles Davis (1951) (1965)
• Stan Getz – Stan Getz at Storyville Vol. 2 (1951)
• Johnny Smith feat. Stan Getz – Moonlight in Vermont (1952)^[5]
• Jackie Gleason Orchestra – Music, Martinis and Memories (1954)^[6]
• Ink Spots (1954)
• Helen Merrill – Helen Merrill (1954)^[7]
• Artie Shaw - Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five (Album 3) (including Tal Farlow, Hank Jones, Tommy Potter) (1954) Reissue: The Last Recordings: Rare and Unreleased, Vol. 1 (1992)
• Clifford Brown – Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)^[8]
• Stan Kenton – Contemporary Concepts (1955)^[9]
• Tal Farlow – Tal (1956)^[10]
• Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing (1957)^[11]
• Charles Mingus with Hampton Hawes – Mingus Three (1957)^[2]
• Modern Jazz Quartet – Modern Jazz Quartet (1975)^[12]
• Tito Puente – Puente Goes Jazz (1957)
• Four Freshmen – Voices in Latin (1958)
• Marion Marlowe – Dearly Beloved (1959)
• Buddy Rich and Max Roach – Rich Versus Roach (1959)^[2]
• Anita O'Day – Waiter, Make Mine Blues (1960)^[13]
• Oscar Peterson (1961)^[2]
• Frank Sinatra - Sinatra and Strings (1962)^[14]
• Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book (1963)
• Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins – Sonny Meets Hawk! (1963)^[2]
• Booker Ervin – The Song Book (1964)^[15]
• Barbra Streisand – Color Me Barbra (1966)^[16]
• Erroll Garner – Magician (1973)^[2]
• Stephane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin – Tea for Two (1977)^[2]
• Adam Makowicz and George Mraz – Classic Jazz Duets (1982)^[2]
• Kevin Eubanks – Guitarist (1983)
• Marianne Faithfull – Strange Weather (1987)^[17]
• Gato Barbieri – The Third World Revisited (1988)^[18]
• Larry Coryell – Shining Hour (1989)^[19][20]
• Tom Harrell with Kenny Werner – Sail Away (1991)^[2]
• Nnenna Freelon – Nnenna Freelon (1992)^[21]
• Stevie Holland – More Than Words Can Say (2006)^[22]
• Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band – Act Your Age (2008)^[23]
• Dorothy Donegan^[2]
• Paul Smith^[2]

• List of 1930s jazz standards

• "Yesterdays" at Jazzstandards.com