Music we play

The Band is a Jazz Function band, playing accessible Jazz for mood and dancing mixed with exciting function music
for people that want to bop. Below are some of the tunes we love playing.

Challenge us with your First Dance and Favourites

If you have not found your favourite song in the below list of tunes which we take to every gig.
Ask, as we have another 2500 arrangements back at base, if it’s not in that, we will try and get it for you,
if all else fails, we will try and transcribe it from a recording, we love peoples favourite songs, since they often become ours as well.

The List below has about 8 hours worth of Material by Set, by Title, by Writer or Arranger or by Style.

Title Vocal Style Author - Arranger or Ref
Adios Big Band
Ain't Misbehavin Slow FoxTrot Harry Brooks 1929
All Blue Blues & Roots Kind of Blue 1959
All of Me Vocal Quick Step Gerald Marks 1931
Almost like being in love Standard Frederick Loewe
American Patrol Big Band Glen Miller, Arr Jerry Gray
Angel Eyes Vocal Rumba Matt Dennis 1946
Angel Eyes Arrangement Slow Funk
Anniversary Waltz Waltz
Auld Lang Syne
Autumn Leaves Joseph Kosma + Johny Mercer
Black & Blue Slow Dixie Louis Armstrong ?
Blue Room Vocal Standards Richard Rodgers
Bluette ( Brubeck ) Waltz Dave Brubeck
Brazilian Beat Contemporary Barney Kessel
Bring me Sunshire Vocal Pop
Broken Wing Contemporary Richie Beirach
Car Wash Vocal Soul Norman Whitfield
Cataloupe island Scat Standard Herbie Hancock 1964
Cha Cha for Two Cha Cha Joe Morland 1956
Change Partners Vocal Irvin Berlin
Charleston Standards James Johnson
Cheese Cake Jazz Duet Dexter Gordon
Choo Choo Chaboogie Vocal Jive Louis Jordan
Christmas Medley Vocal Swing
Christmas Song Swing
Coney Island Washboard Dixie Hampton Durand & Jerry Adams
Conga
Congratulations Quick Step Bill Martin & Phil Coulter
Congratulations ( Short ) Quick Step Bill Martin & Phil Coulter
Corner Pocket Standard Freddie Green
Cry Me a River Vocal Arthur Hamilton
Dansero Cha Cha R Hayman
Day in the Life of a Fool Rumba Luiz Bonfa 1959
Dearly Beloved Vocal Standards Jerome Kern
Dialogue Jazz Duet Valery Ponomarev
Dmitri Jazz Waltz Dmitri Shostakovich
Do You Love Me? Pop 60's Berry Gordy 1962 (Dirty Dancing)
Don't Bring Lulu Dixie Billy
Don't get around much any more Vocal Slow FoxTrot Duke Ellington 1942
Eso Beso Bossa Joe & Noel Sherman 1962
Every Time we say Goodbye Vocal Ballad
Fanfare 2, Flourish 8 Fanfare John Iveson
Five Spot after Dark Blues & Roots Benny Golson Tenor Sax
Flood Warning Blues & Roots Mark Nightingale
Fly me to the Moon SocialFoxtrot Bart Howard 1954
Foggy Day in Shaston Town Quick Step Gershwin (A Damsel in Distress)
From Russia With Love Vocal Film Lionel Bart
Girl from Ipanema Vocal Cha Cha Antonio Jobim 1963
Gotta Dance Blues & Roots Jimmy Giuffre
Hackensack Standard Thelomious Monk
Happy Birthday Pop
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Swing
Heaven Pop
Here's that Rainy day Vocal Bossa / Swing James Van Heusen
Hi Heel Sneakers Vocal RnR Robert Higgenbotham
I Don't Feel Like Dancin Vocal Pop Scissor Sisters
I Feel Good Vocal Soul James Dance
I Only want to be with you Vocal Pop
I Won't Dance Vocal SocialFoxtrot Jerome Kern 1935
If You Can't Rock Me Vocal RNR / Jive Brian Setzer (Stuart Little)
In a Mellow Tone Vocal Standards Duke Ellington
In the Mood Cha Cha Arr Gordan Rees
It don't mean a thing ( if it aint got that swing) Scat Standard Duke Ellington
It's all right with me Vocal Quick Step Cole Porter
I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo Vocal Big Band Harry Warren, Arr Jimmy Lally
I've Got you under my Skin Beguine Cole Porter 1936
Jingle Bells 5/4 & Swing
Jump Jive An Wail Vocal Jive Louis Prima
Just one of those things Quick Step Cole Porter
Kelly Blue Blues & Roots Wynton Kelly
La Cumparsita Tango Rodriguez
Lady is a Tramp Quick Step Richard Rogers 1937
Lady Madonna Funk The Beatles
Lets Face the Music & Dance Vocal Quick Step Irving Berlin 1936
Lets fall in Love Vocal Foxtrot
Lets Twist Again Vocal Twist Mann
Little Brown Jug Big Band Glen Miller / Billy Finegan
Lollipops and Roses Waltz - Med Tony Velona
Mambo Number 5 Latin Mambo
Mandela Blues & Roots Abdullah Ibranim
Meditation Cha Cha Antonio Jobin
Midnight in Moscow Dixie Arr Kenny Ball
Moanin Swing Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Moon River Vocal Waltz - Slow Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer
Moonlight Serenade Big Band
Mr PC Blues & Roots John Coltrane
Mr Zoot Suit Vocal Jive Mark Cally (Blast from the Past)
My Boy Lollipop Vocal Pop Millie Small ( Robert Spencer )
My Funny Valentine Vocal Slow Foxtrot Richard Rodgers 1937
My Girl Vocal Motown William Smokey Robinson ?
My Man's Gone Now Vocal Waltz George Gershwin 1935
My Ship Standards Kurt Weill
National Anthem
Night in Tunisia Latin/Swing Dizzy Gillespie
Not in These Shoes Vocal Kirsty McColl
OH, Pretty Woman Beat Roy Orbison 1934
Old Devil Moon Social Foxtrot Burton Lane (Finian's Rainbow)
Orange Coloured Sky Vocal Big Band Milton DeLugg, Willie Stein
Panama Dixie William H. Tyers
Passing Strangers Vocal Swing Arranged by Roger Parsons
Pastime to Wedding Fanfare Fanfare Arr Babs
Perdido Standard Juan Tizol Trumpet
Peter Gunn BigBFunk Henry Mancini
Petite Fleur Bolero Sidney Bechet
Puppet on a String Pop Sandie Shaw
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars Vocal Rumba Antonio Jobim 1962
Respect Vocal Soul Otis Redding (Aretha Franklin)
Rock This Town RNR / Jive Brian Setzer
Roses of Picardy Dixie Hayden Wood Arr Jimmy Lally
Sam's Boogie Jive Sammy Nestico
Satin Doll Slow FoxTrot Duke Ellington 1953
Shake Rattle & Roll Shuffle Charles Calhoun 1924
She's a Brick House Vocal Funk Lionel Richie
Sir Duke Vocal Dixie Stevie Wonder
So Nice (Summer Samba) Rumba Norman Gimbel 1965
Some Like it Hot Vocal Marilyn Monroe
Someday Quick Step Louis Armstrong
Something Stupid Vocal Latin C Carson Parks
Stairways to the Stars Vocal
Stranger on the Shore Acker Bilk
Summertime Vocal SocialFoxtrot Gershwin Porgy & Bess
Sunday Kind of Love Stan Rhodes 1946
Sway Vocal Bossa N Gimbel
Sydney Thompson Barn Dance Big Band Arr David Caryll
Take Five Cool Jazz Paul Desmond
Take the A Train Vocal Big Band Bill Oliver
Tenderly Waltz Walter Gross
Tequila Rock Mambo Chuck Rio 1928
That Warm Feeling Slow FoxTrot Sammy Nestico
The Continental 30's QS Con Conrad
The Mountain Contemporary Abdullah Ibranim
The Nearness of You Vocal Ballad
The Sidewinder Blues & Roots Lee Morgan
The Stars fell on Alabama Standards Frank Perkins 1934
The Stripper Function
The Twitch Blues & Roots Duke Ellington
They Can't take that away from me Vocal Swing Ira & G Gershwin 1937
Three in One Funky Songo Wayne Wallace
Time after Time Vocal Pop Cindi Lauper - Strictly Ballroom
Tin Roof Blues Blues & Roots New Orleans Rhythm Kings
Tin Roof Blues Slow Dixie New Orleans Rhythm Kings
True Love Waltz
Tuxedo Junction Big Band E. Hawkins, W. Johnson, J Dash
Up Jumped Spring
Us & Them Vocal Beat Pink Floyd
We've only Just begun Pop
What a Difference a Day made Vocal Slow FoxTrot Maria Grever 1934
What a Wonderful World Vocal Shuffle G Weiss & G Douglas
What is this thing called love Scat Standard Cole Porter
When I Fall in Love Vocal Bossa Victor Young 1952
When the Red Red Robin Vocal Pop
When You Wore a Tulip Dixie Percy Wenrich
White Christmas Vocal Swing
Willow Weep for Me Vocal Ann Ronell 1932
YMCA Medley Vocal Disco Village People
Your Feet's Too Big Dixie A Benson, F Fisher, J Hancock