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    I divide my list into three parts and they’re always changing.

    The first are tunes I’ll never have to practice ever again and I’d still know them inside and out. Stella and All of Me come to mind. (This is the shortest list).

    The second are tunes that I know well and could play now but still need to keep them sharp, or tunes I’ve played a lot in the past but might need a quick refresher. East of the Sun and How Deep is the Ocean are on this one. (This one is also far and away the longest).

    The third are tunes that I’ve worked on but that just haven’t stuck yet. Some are new tunes that haven’t had time to simmer yet, and others are tunes that I just can never seem to remember. This list is maybe about as long as the first and is as follows:

    1 - All Or Nothing At All (A-)
    2 - Bewitched (C)
    3 - Come Rain Or Come Shine (F)
    4 - Dexterity (Bb)
    5 - Doxy (Bb)
    6 - Groovin' High (Eb)
    7 - Harmonique (Bb)
    8 - I'll Remember April (G)
    9 - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (F)
    10 - If I Loved You (C)
    11 - If I Were A Bell (F)
    12 - Jordu (C-)
    13 - Lullaby Of Birdland (Ab)
    14 - Monk's Dream (C)
    15 - Mr. P.C. (C-)
    16 - September In The Rain (Eb)
    17 - Song Is You, The (C)
    18 - Stablemates (Db)
    19 - Time After Time (C)
    20 - Trane’s Blues (Bb)
    21 - We See (Bb)
    22 - Well You Needn't (F)
    23 - Stormy Weather (G)
    24 - Very Thought Of You, The (Ab)

    Now that I look, it’s probably time for September in the Rain, If I Loved You, and Bewitched to move up a rung. Well You Needn’t might not even belong on this list anymore. They’re always changing.

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  3. #27

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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanAllen
    It’s funny that you write dissertations in a theory thread, but you can’t be bothered to list 8 tunes.

    Cissy Strut
    Chitlins Con Carne
    I think I heard Moanin in there too

    The rest I didn’t know.
    Sometimes I do not know either, but it always works fine.
    Both my trio and the horn band use prepared set lists for
    performances - but not printed by me; in so tiny 10 point
    font which I can't read held in front of my face under dim
    stage lighting. In the former, I call the tunes; but the latter
    I look over the pianists' shoulder at his music for which is
    next, so all is well in the world, whatever it is I am playing.

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    Second last gig of the Summer with the combo up in Dunblane. We got to nominate some tunes this time so I suggested Recado, Cry Me a River and April in Paris. I was going to do Nightingale but we skipped it. I knew the heads on everything except Nardis and Alone Together so quietly doubled up with the horns when I could. I made a bit of a mess of the B section of April in Paris but on the whole I'm pretty happy with how I took the lead on some tunes. I also took responsibility for counting in the band on most numbers so that the saxes could get their first note.

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    How long was the gig with 12 songs?

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    Here’s the set list from yesterday afternoon at a regional jazz festival in Japan, where I played with a quintet:

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    The Japanese word at the top of the left most column is “tema,” which means “theme” and which is generally used instead of “melody” or “head.” The set list also shows who plays what when, and I highlighted my parts.

    I played the tema on “You and the Night and the Music” and “Summer Samba.” Items 4, 5, and 6 were vocal tunes. It turned out the set was running a bit short, so we played “Autumn Leaves” after “Tea for Two.”

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    Might as well revive this thread. Next Saturday is a Trio gig (guitar, trumpet, bass). So I sent out the list early.

    These take more prep for me as I can’t rely on the drummer to keep count.

    Blue Horse 8.10.2024


    1 - Freddie Freeloader (Bb)
    2 - Moonglow (G)
    3 - In A Mellow Tone (In A Mellotone) (Ab)
    4 - How High The Moon (G)
    5 - Serenade To A Cuckoo (F-)
    6 - All The Things You Are (Ab)


    7 - Satin Doll (C)
    8 - Blue Bossa (C-)
    9 - In a Sentimental Mood (D-)
    10 - Four (Eb)
    11 - Take The A Train (C)
    12 - Bye Bye Blackbird (F)


    13 - Perdido (Bb)
    14 - Let's Get Lost (Bb)
    15 - Blue Moon (Eb)
    16 - Doxy (Bb)
    17 - The Girl From Ipanema (F)
    18 - Well You Needn't (F)
    19 - Sonnymoon For Two (G)

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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanAllen
    Might as well revive this thread. Next Saturday is a Trio gig (guitar, trumpet, bass). So I sent out the list early.

    These take more prep for me as I can’t rely on the drummer to keep count.

    Blue Horse 8.10.2024


    1 - Freddie Freeloader (Bb)
    2 - Moonglow (G)
    3 - In A Mellow Tone (In A Mellotone) (Ab)
    4 - How High The Moon (G)
    5 - Serenade To A Cuckoo (F-)
    6 - All The Things You Are (Ab)


    7 - Satin Doll (C)
    8 - Blue Bossa (C-)
    9 - In a Sentimental Mood (D-)
    10 - Four (Eb)
    11 - Take The A Train (C)
    12 - Bye Bye Blackbird (F)


    13 - Perdido (Bb)
    14 - Let's Get Lost (Bb)
    15 - Blue Moon (Eb)
    16 - Doxy (Bb)
    17 - The Girl From Ipanema (F)
    18 - Well You Needn't (F)
    19 - Sonnymoon For Two (G)
    Moooooonglow.

    what a great tune.

    Good timing … I’m playing tomorrow with a band where the bandleader makes a setlist.

    Beatrice

    Corcovado

    Bemsha Swing

    Footprints

    Well You Needn’t

    Sea Journey

    Days of Wine & Roses (F)

    Equinox

    Au Privave

    On Green Dolphin Street

    Softly as in a Morning

    Cantaloupe Island

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    Nice to see this thread revived! Some great tunes on the latest lists, keep 'em comin'. I think it would be interesting for others to share their set lists, too.

    I'm not in a band, and mostly play out at weekly jam sessions and an occasional open mic (or events that stem from them), so not many set lists to share. The one in my previous post in this thread is from a set I did sitting in with a quintet at a regional street jazz festival last October. I'll play at that event again this year. It's actually with the house band I met through one of the jam session venues. I'll have a set list in September.

    Last January I did a solo guitar set at a local live music house that invited me as part of a venue anniversary event. I put together a 30 minute suite "Echoes of Jobim," interlinking three of his tunes for solo guitar:

    Look to the Sky
    Girl from Ipanema
    Dindi

    And yes, using a delay effector, namely a T-Rex Binson Echorec. I don't feel confident enough with my playing to just do unadulterated chord melodies, but I really admire those on this forum who are quite accomplished at that.

    Recently, I was again invited to do a set at the same live music house at the end of August, so am now working on the tunes. I could just re-do the Jobim set, but I like to use these one-off opportunities to try something different. What I have in mind this time is developing something like a suite, or maybe two, with the working title "Stars and Birds" and a tentative set list including:

    Stella by Starlight
    When You Wish Upon a Star
    Free as a Bird
    Blackbird
    Tired of Waiting for You (i.e. "You were only waiting for this moment to arise")

    As an aside, I remember McCartney giving an interview some years back, in which he noted that Blackbird was dedicated to Black women (as he noted, "birds" in UK parlance) of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. I don't like to mix music with divisive politics on forums, but suffice to say that there are a number of places around the world today that civil (and human) rights seem to be sorely lacking, so I might consider--following McCartney's lead--dedicating this new set to one of those places.

    Back to the set list for August, Stella is a jam session staple around these parts and I play it often (though for the upcoming set I transposed it to A to make better use of open strings), and I got interested in When You Wish... after looking for other tunes about stars (Stardust and Star Eyes were early contenders).

    I enjoy how Bill Frisell handles pop tunes with somewhat of a jazzy sensibility (though it's probably a stretch to call some the tunes I selected, or even my approach, "jazz"). For most of these five tunes, I'll somewhat apply Frisell's not quite chord melody approach, sticking close to the single note melody and grabbing whatever chord adjacent notes I can reach (maybe vaguely and ineptly alluding to something that's only a mere shadow of what Ted Greene perfected), with reliance on Frisell-ish open strings and harmonics, and some pedals.

    To get inspired, I worked for most of June using an Echoplex EP-3, an old Maestro Sustainer, and a Shin-Ei Uni-Vibe to improvise around the melodies for several possible tunes (these quirky old effectors some how put my creativity in high gear), eventually settling on those noted above.

    Then I took a break from that project during July to bone up on some Romany (AKA Gypsy) Jazz to sit in with a group at a university lecture demonstration (for which I was the MC) with one of the only Romany Jazz groups in Japan. The set list for that was:

    Minor Swing
    Nuages
    I'll See You in My Dreams
    Minor Blues
    Out of Nowhere
    For Sephora

    The only tune I actually played on was Out of Nowhere, but I practiced that quite a bit before the event toward mid-late July, as I hadn't played acoustic in a while.

    I'm not a full-time musician, nowhere near (more like an avid amateur), so it takes me a LONG time to put together a set or learn tunes well enough to sit in with professional musicians.

    After the Romany Jazz set, I took a break from playing to wrap up some unrelated work tasks and spend time with the Mrs., but am now rehearsing the "Stars and Birds" set for the end of this month, focusing on arrangements, segues and tap dancing around several pedals.

    I've done sets in the past at this same live music house (one of four nearby), at which I used to play at open mics and still play at jam sessions.

    I did a solo guitar set there a while back that included:

    Someone to Watch Over Me
    Freddie the Freeloader and Blue Monk (medley)
    Watermelon Man
    Lucy in the Sky and In My Life (medley)

    Someone to Watch... got on my radar when Bill Frisell mentioned in an online interview that he learned the tune while stuck at home during the dark gig-less days of corona. It's a lovely tune, although I didn't hear what he ended up doing with it.

    More recently, I'm trying to re-conceptualize my approach from doing a "medley" into creating something akin to a "suite" (loosely defined), blending and melding tunes with thematic similarities and linking them by improvising over a vamp with a looper. The vamp is usually based on two chords that allude to a defining or common harmonic characteristic of the tunes, applying the old jazz fusion jam device of using a four-bar two-chord progression that has most notes in common except one or two that are a half step different.

    But now this is getting away from talking about set lists into something quite different, so I'll end here.

    Looking forward to seeing more of your set lists and also reading your stories about them!

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    I know more than this list of tunes, but here are all the tunes that I have fully internalized and can play, without thinking or charts, at the drop of a hat. I have some plans to get some gigs later on this year. But first I need a repertoire. This works

    50 Jazz Standards
    A Foggy Day ??
    All Gods Chulln God Rhythm?
    Amazing Grace?
    Autumn Leaves??
    Blue Moon ??
    Blue Skies?
    Blue Trane ?
    Body and Soul??
    But Not For Me??
    Bye Bye Blackbird ?
    Caravan?
    Come Sunday?
    Days of Wine and Roses?
    Don’t Blame Me??
    Embraceable You??
    Fly Me to the Moon ??
    Georgia On My Mind??
    God Bless the Child?
    How Deep is the Ocean???
    How High the Moon?
    I Ain’t Got Nothing But the Blues??
    I Can’t Give You Anything But Love?
    I Could Write a Book?
    I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)?
    I Got Rhythm?
    I’m Beginning to See the Light?
    In the Wee Small Hours??
    Laura???
    Little Girl Blue??
    Mac the Knife?
    Mood Indigo??
    Moon River??
    Motherless Child??
    My Funny Valentine??
    Out of This World?
    Polka Dots and Moonbeams?
    Satin Doll??
    September Song?
    Solitude?
    Some Day My Prince Will Come?
    Somewhere Over the Rainbow?
    Stairway to the Stars?
    Stars Fell on Alabama?
    Stormy Weather?
    Straight No Chaser?
    Tenderly? ?
    There is No Greater Love?
    What’s New??
    Without a Song?
    Yesterdays?

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    Solo Guitar set list

    Tis Autumn
    Meditation
    You Stepped Out of a Dream
    My Romance J. Smith arr
    While We Were Young Wes arr
    Soon
    Autumn Leaves
    A Foggy Day
    Days of Wine and Roses
    Sweet Lorraine
    Detour Ahead
    Nuages
    All of Me
    Someone To Watch Over Me
    Michellle
    The End of A Love Affair
    Day and Night
    Like Someone In Love
    All The Things You Are
    Cheek to Cheek
    There Will Never be Another You
    Girl Talk
    Body and Soul
    Almost Like Being In Love
    Sweet Georgia Brown
    Why Did I Choose You
    My Old Flame
    Waltz for Debbie
    Softly As Morning Sunrise
    The Nearness of You
    Stairway to the Stars
    Have You Met Miss Jones
    In Your Own Sweet Way
    Georgia On My Mind
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    Hey, nice thread!

    Without the notes on the right, I won’t be able to tell which song is coming up! ?

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    Set 1

    1. C Jam Blues
    2. Bye Bye Blackbird (swing tempo)
    3. Serenade to a Cuckoo
    4. St. Thomas
    5. Moonglow
    6. But Not For Me *
    7. Perdido


    Set 2

    1. Work Song
    2. Blue Bossa
    3. Caravan
    4. In a Sentimental Mood
    5. Topsy
    6. Woodyn’ You *
    7. Four


    Set 3

    1. So What
    2. Song For My Father
    3. Freddie Freeloader
    4. I Fall In Love too Easily
    5. Take The A Train
    6. How High The Moon
    7. Sonnymoon for Two


    Subs

    1. Blue Moon
    2. Satin Doll
    3. In A Mellow Tone

    * New Tunes

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    SET 1
    14 Jazz Me Blues
    31 Strut Miss Lizzy
    (Start announcements)
    41a Wabash Blues
    84 Creole Jazz
    28a Whose Sorry Now
    53 Jin for Joan
    17 Tin Roof Blues
    170 Battle Hymn of the Republic (segue)
    56 Canal Street Blues
    21 Petite Fleur
    70 Sugar Froot Stomp
    61b Royal Garden Blues


    BREAK (no announcement before we start)
    Joe Averies Blues
    20 At a Georgia Camp Meeting
    180 Basin Street Blues
    35a Muskrat Ramble
    34 Sweet Georgia Brown
    15 So Do I
    62 Just a Closer Walk
    157 St James Infirmary
    234 The Onions
    (segue)
    19 Memphis Blues
    72 Stranger on the Shore
    14 South Rampart Street Parade
    79a Hello Dolly
    ENCORE
    178 Black Bottom


    EXTRAS
    174 Tequila
    175 Swinging Safari

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    For a solo guitar set this coming weekend as part of an event at one of the local venues I play at regularly here in Japan (Venue C from my Jam Session Journal).
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    I'd like to hear how you do Tired Of Waiting For You

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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanAllen
    I'd like to hear how you do Tired Of Waiting For You
    Thanks, I’m hoping to get a video.

    I adapted it for solo instrumental guitar and take some liberties with form and tempo. For the signature guitar riff, I use harmonics at first and then the original voicings but over a low E pedal. I alternate that with the primary melody but in a few different ways, and only doing the bridge once. I add a vamp on G - F with a looper for an ad-lib section in the middle. The whole tune, along with an atmospheric intro, comes in at 10mn. My arrangement (and for the Beatles tunes) is inspired by the way Bill Frisell approaches Pop / Rock.

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    My busking-in-the-nice-reverberation-of-the-pedestrian-tunnel "set list" (rather a material list, no fixed sequence), all played and sung from memory:


    • All Along The Watchtower -- Bob Dylan
    • Knocking On Heaven's Door -- Bob Dylan
    • Ship Of Fools -- Grateful Dead
    • Hound Dog -- Leiber/Stoller
    • Stormy Monday Blues -- T-Bone Walker
    • Hallelujah -- Leonard Cohen (rather the Jeff Buckley version)
    • False Prophet -- Bob Dylan
    • Baby's Shoe -- own composition written in 2014 about Gaza bombings
    • Trouble In Mind -- Traditional
    • Redemption Song -- Bob Marley
    • Honky Tonk Women -- The Rolling Stones
    • Red House -- Jimi Hendrix
    • Hey Joe -- Jimi Hendrix
    • Fly Like An Eagle -- Steve Miller
    • One -- U2 (own arrangement)
    • Imagine -- John Lennon
    • Bey Mir Bist Du Sheyn
    • Bella Ciao
    • House Of The Rising Sun


    and brand-new:


    • Summertime -- George Gershwin changes (but in G instead of A minor)
    • All Of Me


    in the works (know lyrics and changes but need to figure out good key for singing):


    • There Will Never Be Another You
    • Born To Be Blue

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    From a recent trio gig (no particular order)

    - You’d be so nice to come home to
    - Dewey square
    - Chi chi
    - East of the Sun
    - It was just one of those things
    - The song is you
    - The best thing for you
    - My old flame
    - My ideal
    - Whisper not
    - Pent up house
    - Let’s cool one
    - In a Sentimental Mood
    - Stompin at the Savoy
    - invitation
    - Lester leaps in
    - It Could Happen To You
    - ATTYA as a waltz


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    This was the set list for a trad gig I did - some good tunes in there

    Struttin’ is Struttin’ with some Barbeque

    Guitar feature - Avalon
    Clazza feature - Creole Love Call


    INDIANA (F)
    DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE (F)
    TISHOMINGO BLUES (G)
    NEW ORLEANS SHUFFLE (Fm-Bb)
    STRUTTIN (F)
    AIN’T SHE SWEET (C)
    MOVE THE BODY OVER (Bb)
    WHEN I GROW 2 OLD TO DRM (Eb)
    DR JAZZ (Eb)
    SUNNY SIDE OF THE ST (C)
    GEORGIA (F)
    ST JAMES INFIRMARY (Dm)
    ROYAL GARDEN BLUES (F-Bb)
    DAPPER DAN (Bb)
    AFTER YOU’VE GONE (Ab)
    YOU ARE MY LUCKY STAR (Eb)
    ICE CREAM (Bb)
    (RIVERBOAT SHUFFLE Gm-Ab)
    (AVALON F)
    (CHIMES BLUES C)
    (ALL OF ME C)
    (WHEN YOU’RE SMILING F)
    (BOURBON ST PARADE F)
    (AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ Eb)
    (EXACTLY LIKE YOU Eb)
    (TIGER RAG Bb-Eb-Ab)



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    One from a gig on Saturday:

    Beatrice
    Corcovado

    Bemsha Swing

    Stella by Starlight

    Well You Needn’t


    Caravan

    Equinox

    Au Privave

    On Green Dolphin Street

    Softly as in a Morning Sunrise

    St Thomas


    Footprints

    Steeplechase

    Sonnymoon

    Beautiful Love

    Pursuance

    Cantaloupe Island

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    And from a solo gig yesterday …

    Ill Be Seeing You
    If I Loved You
    Beautiful Love.

    Body and Soul
    Stella
    Embraceable You

    My Ideal
    Corcovado
    Easy to Love

    Misty
    Moonglow
    All the Things

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    The guys suggested I add Cantaloupe Island to our repertoire. Gotta learn that one.

    Quote Originally Posted by pamosmusic
    One from a gig on Saturday:

    Beatrice
    Corcovado

    Bemsha Swing

    Stella by Starlight

    Well You Needn’t


    Caravan

    Equinox

    Au Privave

    On Green Dolphin Street

    Softly as in a Morning Sunrise

    St Thomas


    Footprints

    Steeplechase

    Sonnymoon

    Beautiful Love

    Pursuance

    Cantaloupe Island

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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanAllen
    The guys suggested I add Cantaloupe Island to our repertoire. Gotta learn that one.
    Have you ever been a hip-hop listener?

    Because then you would know it already.


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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanAllen
    The guys suggested I add Cantaloupe Island to our repertoire. Gotta learn that one.
    A classic. Also a crowd pleaser, and the little piano riff is super easy on guitar. A little tougher to get the melody with it if you’re doing that, but if a horn is playing the melody it’s a snap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pamosmusic
    A classic. Also a crowd pleaser, and the little piano riff is super easy on guitar. A little tougher to get the melody with it if you’re doing that, but if a horn is playing the melody it’s a snap.
    It sounds like a twisted up Watermelon Man. This is one I'll let the trumpet do his thing and I'll play rhythm.