OK, here's the challenge. Everyone lists the longest and shortest jazz piece (time, title, album & artist, year if there's more than one recorded version) they have in their collection, and we see who wins after a week. Sound fun? I'll post mine tomorrow. Multiple posts are allowed (if you forget a song at first).

If you're not sure where to look for a song's time and you don't have the CD jacket, I recommend checking the song out on www.cdnow.com .

Well after just a quick search I came up with:
Lyle Mays "Newborn" from "Street Dreams 1:43.

Pat Metheny Trio Live "Question and Answer" 19:53

Well now I found Sting's "Dream of the Blue Turtle" at 1:15

Herbie Han****(Headhunters)-"Chameleon" 15:41
Jaco Pastorius-"Forgotten Love" 2:14

Funny that redhead would post "Newborn" with the picture she has Currently, she's winning in both counts

Return To Forever (Chick Corea) Sometime Ago - La Fiesta 23:13

PMG Letter from Home "45/8" 0:56 and after diggin' around in my "stuff I forgot I had" I found John Coltrane's "Ascension" Edition II 40:56.

Duke Ellington "Black Brown & Beige" 45 minutes

Time Out! Judge's ruling! Does that count? Black Brown and Beige are three different movements, not one piece.

hmm if is HAS to be jazz then...
as falls wichita so falls wichita falls by Pat n Lyle is probly longest at 20.41
unless the windchimes by mike oldfield counts... at 21.49...
i think surprise, surprise by mezzoforte has to be the shortest, its 0.34s

if we can use other genres then 17 by smashing pumpkins must be the shortest piece of music at surprisingly 0.17s.

and longest looks like itll have to be voyage 34 by porcupine tree at a stonking 29.48.
also, i know the original version of Moonloop by porcupine tree was 45 minutes, this was cut down in various forms for albums, but the complete thing was released to fan club subscribers only a few months ago. which is nice.

I don't really want to have to take sides here...I don't know Black, Brown, & Beige, but I would say that if they are 3 separate tracks on a CD, then it counts as 3 titles. I did have single songs in mind.

I have nothing that can rival for longest song right now, since As Falls Wichita... has already been posted, but here's my entry for shortest, and it is jazz.

Saphire Bullets of Pure Love: 23 seconds, by the Mahavishnu Orchestra on their 1973 Birds Of Fire album.

I was really only kidding.

damn! someones beating me to shortest song!
okay, the verb to be by quincy jones is 31s.
fanfarra despedida by sergio mendez is 29s.
dancehall interlude by courtney pine is 24s but i wouldnt really say its jazz, its just some rasta bloke talkin bollocks.
marcus, however, on the same album is actual jazz and is only 32s.
okay, can i have introduction to real time by spyro gyra? is 23s aswell!
i really cant be bothered to look for anymore.