jazz standards that work with the bass playing the melody

[Ajak]

Basically what the title says.

In summer we'll have an exam in music school where I have to play a tune, melody comping, solo. So I need some tunes that work well with bass playing the melody.
I've played Four and Spain at the entry exam last year so none of these and not So What either.
I thought of playing Nigerian Market Place but I'm not sure because of thet 16th run where I have to slide up to get those last few notes I've also played In A Sentimental Mood but maybe I could play something new.

Our group is drums, bass (me), guitar, trombone, tenor sax, trumpet and a female singer. I can make use of the but don't have to.

Any ideas for nice tunes that could work in that context?

thanks already

 

[Passinwind]

Over The Rainbow works great for me for that.

 

[Ed Fuqua]

All of them?

 

[fraublugher]

It would be easier to answer the opposite , which tunes to avoid, it's a much shorter list.

Try Joy Spring [Gil Evans] and get the Bone player to walk under your solo.

 

[Ed Fuqua]

I would also invite you to check out the Neal Miner CD [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]....

 

[JimK]

All of them?

KUNGFUQUA'd!

 

[sean_on_bass]

Agreed...all of them. Choose a tune you really like and go for that one. Will be better than one we dictate for you What are your favorite standards?

 

[nukes_da_bass]

All Blues- check out Ron Carters version!

 

[fdeck]

All of them?

I don't know that one.

But seriously, I agree. I'm a huge fan of learning melodies. The OP could just go through a fake book and play melodies, or learn them by ear from recordings. Since it's for a graded performance, an appropriate tune would be at the OP's level, meaning that they could weed out tunes with really awkward fingering problems or impossible changes. But there are so many playable tunes.

 

[Phil Smith]

The ones that work are the ones that you can make sound good.