[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland, or....

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

Our band has only been performing for a dozen years or so, but our set list
is maybe stretching the boundary a bit. Our late-set audiences tend to more
what The Count from Sesame Street might bemoan as "twenty somethings" and
while open to any honest music, few are what I'd call hard-core trad
devotees.

When younger musicians sit in, I tell them, "Imagine if The Beatles never
existed, and this music just continued to grow and flourish!"

Drom MARCH 11 (two sets 8pm-11pm)

- West End Blues - Joe Oliver (Eb)
- Who's Sorry Now? (Bb)
- When You're Smilin' (Bb)
- When I Grow Too Old To Dream (F)
- Skid Dat De Dat (C)
- La Vie En Rose (C)
- A Kiss To Build A Dream On (Eb)
- Someday You'll Be Sorry (Eb)
- Gut Bucket Blues (C)
- Ya To, Chto Nado (Bravo) / Moanin' (Bobby Timmins) (F-)

Mingus advised saving your best stuff for the second set, after everyone
has had a few…

- Dark Eyes (D-)
- Black Parade (Your Physics Enemy) (Eb)
- Centuries (Fall Out Boy) (G-)
- All of Me (John Legend) (F)
- Someone Like You (Adele) (Eb)
- Bennie And The Jets (Elton John) (C)
- Eye Of The Tiger (Survivor) (G-)
- Man In The Mirror (Stevie Wonder) (Eb)
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Bb)
- Midnight In Moscow / Korobieniki (D-)
- I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor) (C-)

Does it work? The room is usually packed and kitty is never lacking 😊 I
don't recall if this list allows attachments, but I could post an mp3 of
any of those more-outside tunes if anyone is interested, but be forewarned,
we can get pretty raw and wild by times 🤣

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, 2:09 p.m. <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:

> Gordon, you shouldn't just go back to lurking.  When everyone lurks, there
> is no discussion!
>
> My band, now in its 56th year playing in Spain, and in particularly in
> Madrid, has long used the following heading on our Promotional blurp (here
> translated into Engish):   "Dixeland Jazz, New Orleans Jazz, Traditional
> Jazz..different names for the same music.  A Music created in New Orleans
> and represented in Spain during the past 56 years by the CANAL STREET JAZZ
> BAND".
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> We play mainly for a non-Jazz orientated crowd, and we like to mix our song
> list up with old, more traditional tunes, and include songs right up to the
> 1960's.  That way, we can introduce some of the earlier songs while keeping
> the audience pleased with melodies they might be more aware of.  Also, it
> has been a way of keeping all the members of the band happy, by including
> all the different tastes we all have in music styles.  I mentioned
> yesterday
> adding a 2nd song made popular by Elvis Presley.  We also play The Pink
> Panther, The Flintstones, A Smooth One (Benny Goodman), Lil' Darlin',
> Watermelon Man, On the Street Where you Live...and many more that are not
> in
> the "Dixieland" song list normally.
>
> Maybe not everyone's idea of a good plan, but it has worked for us in the
> area in which we function.
>
> Jim
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> P.s. Here's our setlist for tomorrow night as an example = an approx one hr
> 20 minute show :
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> DINAH                           Ab
> MY BLUE HEAVEN          Eb
> THAT'S A PLENTY          F/Bb
> THE MOOCHE                      Cm/Eb
> MACK THE KNIFE          C/Eb/F
> BLUES MY NAUGHTIE               Bb
> STARS FELL ON ALABAMA   C
> MR. SANDMAN                     Bb
> ST. LOUIS BLUES         G
> SOME OF THESE DAYS              F
> SHOUT EM AUNT TILLIE            Dm
> TIGER RAG                       Bb/Eb/F
> Encores:  What A Wonderful World, or maybe Hoagy's New Orleans, followed by
> The Saints
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