What are some of the best jazz standards?

Misty, Stella by Starlight, Body & Soul, Take Five, Summertime

Stella By Starlight
Night And Day
Body & Soul
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Autumn Leaves
Everything But You
How High the Moon
Have You Met Miss Jones?
Summertime

Anything by:

George (& Ira) Gershwin
Cole Porter
Hoagy Carmichael
Irving Berlin
Richard Rodgers
Frank Loesser
Harold Arlen
Vernon Duke
Jerome Kern
Ray Noble
A.C. Jobim
Andy Razaf
Bob Haggart
Ann Ronnell
Henry Mancini
Vincent Youmans
E.Y. Harburg

Stardust is one of my favorite songs of any kind, especially the version by Illinois Jaquet. Its an instrumental, no singing.

Autumn Leaves is another great, in my opinion.

The best standards are the ones that are so sacred that the schmucks, ...uh, I mean cats that play pathetic pickup gigs, clutching their Real Books at your local hipster arts cafe, never touch, i.e. A Love Supreme.

Check out "Take Five" / Dave Brubeck

BIRDLAND!!!!! by joe zawinul : )