Repertoire

AGE OF AQUARIUS – Fifth Dimension
ALL OF ME – standard
ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE – Modern Jazz Quartet
ALONG COMES MARY – Association
AND I LOVE HER – Beatles
AUTUMN LEAVES – Nat Cole
BARBADOS – Charlie Parker
BLUESETTE – Toots Theilmans
BROADWAY BOSSA NOVA – Dave Brubeck Quartet
BROTHER MISTER – Christian McBride
CALIFORNIA DREAMING – John Phillips
CAN’T BUY ME LOVE – Beatles
CARNAVAL – MAS QUE NADA – Luis Bonfa / Sergio Mendez
CHARADE – Mercer / Mancini
COMIN’ HOME BABY – Herbie Hancock
CORCOVADO – Antonio Jobim
D’JANGO – Modern Jazz Quartet
DO IT AGAIN – Steely Dan
DON’T GET AROUND MUCH – standard
DUKE  w/ SATIN DOLL – Dave Brubeck Qt/Duke Ellington
FAVELA – Antonio Jobim
FELICIDADE – Antonio Jobim
FIVE FOOT TWO – standard
FLY ME TO THE MOON – Frank Sinatra
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH – Buffalo Springfield
FOTOGRAPHIA / IMAGINE – Antonio Jobim
GIRL FROM IPANEMA – Antonio Jobim
GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL – Steve Lawrence
GREEN DOLPHIN STREET – Lionel Hampton
HARD DAY’S NIGHT – Beatles
HEARD IT THRU THE GRAPEVINE – Marvin Gaye
HERE THERE / GOTTA GET YOU – Beatles
HERNANDO’S HIDEAWAY – Enoch Light
HIGH HEEL SNEAKERS – Ray Charles

HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN – Animals
HOW HIGH THE MOON – Nat Cole
I WANT YOU/SHE’S SO HEAVY – Beatles
IF I FELL – Beatles
IN CROWD – Ramsey Lewis
IT HAD TO BE YOU – standard
JOSIE – Steely Dan
JUMPING @ THE WOODSIDE – Count Basie
JUST THE TWO OF US – Grover Washington Jr
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE – Billy Joel
KING FOR A DAY – Dave Brubeck Quartet
KNOCK ON WOOD – Sam & Dave
LADY MADONNA – Beatles
LETTER – Box Tops
LOOK OF LOVE – Burt Bacharach
LOOK-A-HERE – Ramsey Lewis
LULLABY OF THE LEAVES – Art Tatum
MARIAN McPARTLAND – Dave Brubeck Quartet
MEDITATION – Jobim / Mendonca
MERCY MERCY MERCY – Cannonball Adderley
MICHELLE – Beatles
MISTY – Errol Garnor
MOON RIVER – standard
MOONGLOW – standard
MY FOOLISH HEART – Bill Evans Trio
MY FUNNY VALENTINE – Miles Davis
NARDIS – Bill Evans Trio
NEARNESS OF YOU – Hoagy Carmichael
NIGHT TRAIN – Duke Ellington
NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN – Moody Blues
ODE TO BILLIE JO – Bobby Gentry
OH! DARLING – Beatles
ONCE I LOVED (QUIET NIGHT) – Antonio Jobim
ONE – TWO – THREE – Len Barry
ONE NOTE SAMBA – Antonio Jobim
OUT OF AFRICA – John Barry

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN – standard
PINK PANTHER – Henri Mancini
REUNION BLUES – Modern Jazz Quartet
RIKKI DON’T LOSE THAT NUMBER – Steely Dan
SAW HER STANDIN’ THERE – Beatles
SERENADE TO A CUCKOO – Jethro Tull
SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE – Tony Bennett
SHE’S NOT THERE – Zombies
SO DANCO SAMBA – Antonio Jobim
SO WHAT? – Miles Davis Quintet
SOFTLY – CALL ME – Chris Montez
ST LOUIS BLUES – WC Handy
ST THOMAS – Sonny Rollins
SUMMER SAMBA – Antonio Jobim
SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET – standard
SWAN LAKE – CAPT BACARDI – Tchaikovsky – Antonio Jobim
SWINGIN’ SHEPHERD BLUES – standard
TANGERINE – Jimmy Dorsey
TENDERLY – Oscar Pederson Trio
TEQUILA – Champs
THINGS WE SAID TODAY – Beatles
THIS BOY – Beatles
THIS MASQUERADE – Leon Russell
TICKET TO RIDE – Beatles
TOPSY – Cozy Cole
UNCHAIN MY HEART – Ray Charles
WALK RIGHT IN – Rooftop Singers
WALTZ FOR DEBBY – Bill Evans Trio
WATER TO DRINK – O’ COMO VA – Antonio Jobim –  Tito Puente
WATERMELON MAN – Mongo Santamaria
WAVE – Antonio Jobim
WOODEN SHIPS – Stephen Stills
WORK SONG – Cannonball Adderley

“Music helps not the toothache.”

George Herbert.

“A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.”

Miles Davis.

“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the form the music is always graver than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.”

Andre Previn.

“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes—ah, that is where the art resides!”

Artur Schnabel.

“A musician may suddenly reach a point at which pleasure in the technique of the art entirely falls away, and in some moment of inspiration, he becomes the instrument through which music is played.”

Edwin Diller Starbuck.

“Music is too idealistic a thing to permit itself to be bound to concrete references. You cannot have a white horse in music.”

Paul Rosenfield.

“There’s only one way to sum up music: either it’s good or it’s bad. If it’s good you don’t mess about with it; you just enjoy it.”

Louis Armstrong.

“Forget the notes so that you can play them.”

Jan Sardi.

When asked to define jazz, Louis “Satchmo Armstrong replied, “Man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know.”

Louis Armstrong

“Canned music is like audible wallpaper.”

Alistair Cooke.

“Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”

Miles Davis.

“Disharmony is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.”

John Cage.

“Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.”

Charles Burney.

“Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.”

Pablo Casals.

“Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.”

Dave Brubeck.

“What we play is life.”

Louis Armstrong.

“Music is your own experience, your thought, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.”

Charlie Parker.

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”

Igor Stravinsky.

“Jazz is about the only form of MUSIC in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”

Ornette Coleman.