List of Dixieland standards

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Dixieland and traditional jazz standards are jazz tunes from the early 1900s that are widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians. Dixieland music is a style of jazz style which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s. Dixieland jazz combined brass band marches, French Quadrilles, ragtime and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation.

There is no definitive list of Dixieland jazz standards, and the list of songs deemed to be "jazz standards" changes over time. Nevertheless, the songs commonly included in jazz fake books (books containing the melodies and chords to jazz songs) and those that have been widely recorded are a rough guide to the list of Dixieland jazz standards.

Dixieland and traditional jazz standards include:

• "After You've Gone"
• "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"
• "Aggravatin' Poppa"
• "Ain't Misbehavin'"
• "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
• "Apex Blues"
• "At a Georgia Camp Meeting"
• "(At the) Darktown Strutters Ball"
• "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home"
• "Ballin' the Jack"
• "Basin Street Blues"
• "Beale Street Blues"

• "(I Want A) Big Butter and Egg Man"
• "Bill Bailey (Won't You Please Come Home)"
• "(What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue"
• "Black Bottom"
• "Black Bottom Stomp"
• "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me"
• "Buddy Bolden's Blues"
• "Buddy's Habit"
• "Bugle Call Rag"
• "Cakewalking Babies From Home"
• "Canal Street Blues"
• "Careless Love"
• " Charleston (The)"
• "China Boy"
• "Chinatown, My Chinatown"
• "Clarinet Marmalade"
• "Copenhagen (song)|Copenhagen"
• "Cornet Chop Suey"
• "Dallas Blues"
• "Dinah"
• "Dippermouth Blues"
• "Doctor Jazz"
• "Down by the Riverside"
• "Down in Honky Tonk Town"
• "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans"
• "Everybody Loves My Baby"
• "Farewell Blues"
• "Fidgety Feet"
• "Friendless Blues"
• "From Monday On"
• "Girl Of My Dreams"
• "Hard Hearted Hannah"
• "Hiawatha Rag"
• "High Society"
• "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?"
• "I Ain't Got Nobody"
• "Ice Cream"
• "(Back Home Again In) Indiana"
• "If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight"
• "If I Had You"
• "I Found a New Baby"
• "I Wish I Could Shimmee Like My Sister Kate"
• "I'm Coming Virginia"
• "I'm Confessin'"
• "Ja-Da"
• "Just a Closer Walk with Thee"
• "Just a Little While To Stay Here"
• "Just Make Me [[One Pallet On Your Floor"
• "Kansas City Stomp"
• "King Chanticleer"
• "King Porter Stomp"
• "Look Down That Lonesome Road"
• "Louisiana"
• "Mabel's Dream"
• "Mandy, Make Up Your Mind"
• "(My Little) [[Margie"
• "Memphis Blues"
• "Milenberg Joys"
• "Mississippi Mud"
• "Muskrat Ramble"
• "My Heart"
• " Nagasaki"
• "New Orleans" by Hoagy Carmichael
• "Oh Baby"
• "Ol' Miss"
• "Once In a While" by Louis Armstrong
• "Original Dixieland One-step"
• "Ory's Creole Trombone"

• "Panama" (Original title "Panama, a Characteristic Novelty" from 1912)
• "Potato Head Blues"
• "Riverboat Shuffle"
• "Rockin' Chair"
• "Rose of the Rio Grande"
• "Royal Garden Blues"
• "Savoy Blues"
• "Shake That Thing"
• "Sheik of Araby"
• "Shimmee-Sha-Wabble"
• "Shreveport Stomps"
• "Sobbin' Blues"
• "Some of These Days"
• "Someday Sweetheart"
• "Someday You'll Be Sorry"
• "South"
• "South Rampart Street Parade"
• "Squeeze Me" by Fats Waller
• "St. James Infirmary Blues"
• "St. Louis Blues"
• "Sugar"
• "Sweet Georgia Brown"
• "That Da-Da Strain"
• "That's A Plenty"
• "Tiger Rag"
• "Tin Roof Blues"
• "Tishomingo Blues*
• "Twelfth Street Rag*
• "Up a Lazy River"
• "Wabash Blues]"
• "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans"
• "Weary Blues" (often known under the alternative title "Shake It and Break It")
• "When I Grow Too Old To Dream"
• "When It's Sleepy Time Down South"
• "When the Saints Go Marching In" (Originally a gospel song. Nicknamed "The Monster" by some musicians, as it seems to be the only tune many people knew to request when seeing a Dixieland band, and some musicians dread being asked to play it several times a night. At Preservation Hall, a sign on the bandstand reads "Traditional Request—$2.00, Others $5.00, 'The Saints' $10.00")
• "Wild Man Blues"
• "Willie the Weeper"
• "Wolverine Blues"
• "Yellow Dog Blues"
• "You tell Me Your Dream"
• "You're Nobody's Sweetheart Now"