There Is No Greater Love

"There Is No Greater Love" is a 1936 jazz standard composed by Isham Jones, with lyrics by Marty Symes. It was the last hit song for Jones's orchestra before the bandleader turned the orchestra over to Woody Herman, beginning the latter's 50-year career as a bandleader.

The song is often played as a ballad – an example of this approach is Dinah Washington's 1954 recording on Dinah Jams. Medium-tempo swing renditions have also been recorded by several artists, including Miles Davis on two occasions.

Renditions

• Billie Holiday (1947)
• Dinah Washington – Dinah Jams (1954)
• Miles Davis – Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet (1955)
• Sonny Rollins – Way Out West (1957)
• Lou Donaldson – Wailing with Lou (1957)
• Nat King Cole – The Very Thought of You (1958)
• Ahmad Jamal – At the Pershing: But Not for Me (1958)
• The Four Freshmen – Voices in Love (1958)
• Dizzy Gillespie – Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (1959)
• Stanley Turrentine and The Three Sounds – Blue Hour (1960)
• Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt – Boss Tenors: Straight Ahead From Chicago (1961)
• McCoy Tyner – Inception (1962)
• Oscar Peterson – Something Warm (1962)
• Jimmy Scott – Falling in Love Is Wonderful (1962)
• Miles Davis – Four & More (1964)
• Joe Pass – Joy Spring (1964)
• Betty Carter – Inside Betty Carter (1965)
• Aretha Franklin – Aretha Franklin/Yeah!!! (1965)
• Circle – Paris Concert (1971)
• Stan Getz and Kenny Barron – People Time (1991)
• Stefon Harris – Black Action Figure (1999)
• Etta James – Blue Gardenia (2001)
• Amy Winehouse – Frank (2003)

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards