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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanAllen View Post
    It sounds like a twisted up Watermelon Man. This is one I'll let the trumpet do his thing and I'll play rhythm.
    Youre golden then. Just gotta get that piano riff. Great tune.

    Speaking of Watermelon, this is the band that does a lot of straight eighths and sort of funk stuff and we have a thing where we want to do a set that is the entire Headhunters album one day

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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 is easy if you have a bass player. I once learned it together with the bassline on guitar which is trickier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanAllen View Post
    It sounds like a twisted up Watermelon Man. This is one I'll let the trumpet do his thing and I'll play rhythm.
    Ted Ludwig and Paul Asbell do a nice duo guitar of “Cantaloupe Island” in this video, Gotta love the tone coming out of the Megas.


    And Nate Lopez solo on “CI”. There might be some ideas in these two videos to inspire you. “Cantaloupe Island” is a fantastic tune. “Cantaloupe Island”, “All Blues”, “Round Midnight”, and “Take Five” are all tunes that can heavily influence the mood of a set being open to different grooves, solos, and jams.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Onesimus
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    Yeah, that is exactly what I was talking about in post #52.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christian Miller View Post
    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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    Hey, you stole my list!

    Here are the tunes I'll play with my organ trio to open tonight's local jam (a little more straight ahead than usual as the guest organist is a beast but has less experience playing jazz than my regular guy):

    Cool Struttin' (Sonny Clark)
    Dream (Johnny Mercer)
    My Shining Hour (Harold Arlen)
    Anthropology (Charlie Parker)
    Darn That Dream (Jimmy Van Heusen)
    Lullaby of the Leaves (Bernice Petkere)
    Amsterdam After Dark (George Coleman)



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    here's my organ groups songlist. we build the setlists on the gig.

    Remember
    gone with the wind
    full house
    polkadots
    que baby
    somewhere in the night
    these are soulful days
    briar patch
    cisco
    jeannine
    juicy lucy
    nancy
    body and soul
    speak low
    samba de orfeu
    aint that peculiar
    d-natural
    stablemates
    miss anns tempo

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    Did a short set at an annual street jazz festival yesterday. There were a dozen stages with 5 acts per stage. We were a quintet with TP, GT, PF, BA and DS, and joined by a couple of vocalists. There was about 50-60 people at our stage.

    Here's the set list:

    Strollin'
    Sugar
    Autumn Leaves
    The Man I Love (VO1)
    The Nearness of You (VO2)
    Candy (VO2)
    Blue Bossa

    Strollin' was TP's choice, and mine was Sugar. On both of those we played the theme together. PF chose Autumn Leaves and BA Blue Bossa. The VOs chose their own tunes. The quintet was made up of regulars at a monthly jam session that I frequent (Venue B, if you've read my journals). We had one rehearsal last week.

    We usually play Candy in Bb at the jam sessions, though the VO key was Eb. I worked out a short solo for each of the VO tunes, basically a half chorus each.

    Things ran a little late, and there was another group scheduled right after us, so the leader asked everyone to take just one chorus each on Blue Bossa. Earlier, we all got a chance to stretch out a bit on the first three tunes. Strollin' is one of my favorite tunes; I gleaned some ideas for that from Chet Baker and Emily Remler.

    Edit: Corrected typo.
    Last edited by JazzPadd; 10-28-2024 at 09:36 AM.