Show Us Your Set List

[Liarspoker]

Just for fun

This is my solo guitar list from last Halloween. Played for 2 hours. Lots of improv as you can see. I played all summer so was fairly handy at it. Might have a posh gig next week so just looked at the repertoire again. One word...rusty.

[AllanAllen]

This is my songs I know list. Putting a band together for summer.

1. Satin Doll
2. Girl from Ipanema
3. All of me
4. Moanin
5. Blue Bossa
6. Bags Groove
7. Dig Dis
8. chitlins Con Carne
9. s Wonderful
10. how insensitive
11. Coming home baby
12. St. Louis blues
13. Blue monk
14. yesterdays
15. St Thomas
16. watermelon man
17. take five
18. Bye bye blackbird
19. Mercy mercy mercy
20. You’d be so nice to come home to
21. Misty
22. Song for my father
23. Night train
24. Summertime
25. Sunny
26. the way you look tonight

I had no idea I knew this many tunes… I should get gigging

[JazzPadd]

Great idea! Here’s a couple. Both are from solo sets, about 40mn for each. The one with the pedal board is the graphic from a flyer. It lists the composers only. As I recall, the tunes were as follows:

Tired of Waiting for You (Davies)
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most (Wolf)
Freddie Freeloader / Blue Monk (Miles / Monk)
Watermelon Man (Hancock)
Lucy in the Sky / In My Life (Lennon & McCartney)

The second list was from a set using three guitars, an archtop for jazz chord melodies, a flattop for acoustic Zeppelin, and a Tele for the Beatles medley. There’s also notes for the pedal settings.

But wow, you did a two hour set with lots of variety. Impressive!

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

I use a tablet on gigs, so my lists are electronic. At my trio's weekly Thursday night show, we back a different vocalist every week - so I write an iReal chart set for the bassist and drummer and print that as a pdf with the list plus all the tunes (in case of a device failure):





After the vocal hour, we do a set. For that, I leave scrap paper in my pocket and on my bedside table all week so I can write down tunes I want to do when I think of them. We discuss the list before our trio set and pick tunes that grab us. When a page gets full, I transcribe it to a Word document - so there's a sheaf of tune lists in my gig bag pocket. On solo dates, I just use the scribbled idea lists. These are the 3 I've been filling up for about a month:

[SandChannel]

My current set list is Autumn Leaves played 7-8 times at subtly varied speeds wherein the latter renditions are typically better than the first ones. My cats seem to enjoy it. Literal cats - not jazzy jazz hep cats.

[ragman1]

It's heartening to see that some of us here know more than two songs. And in funny keys too.

[AllanAllen]

It’s heartening to see someone has handwriting worse than mine.

[pcjazz]

Here's the swing dance set our big band performed at the Palais Royale on March 4:

Come Out Swingin’ – Larry Neeck
Moondance – Van Morrison, arr. Roy Phillippe
Minority Ruling – Al Horney
Save the last Dance (vocal) - Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, arr. Danny Wilks
Beyond the Sea (vocal) - Charles Trenet, arr. Richard Wess and Michael Manny
The Girl from Ipanema (vocal) – Antonio Carlos Jobim, arr. Roger Holmes
Metropole – arr. Howard Rowe
Girl Talk – Bobby Troup and Neal Hefti, arr. Mark Taylor
A Foggy Day (vocal) – George and Ira Gershwin
Sway (vocal) – Norman Gimble, arr. Danny Wilks
Drummin Man – Gene Krupa and Tiny Parham, arr. Rich DeRosa
How Insensitive – Antonio Carlos Jobim , arr. Les Brown
Canal Street Celebration – Mike Carubia

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

It’s heartening to see someone has handwriting worse than mine.

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[JazzPadd]

@nevershouldhavesoldit, thanks for sharing your set lists. Some great tunes therein! I particularly like those on the hand-written lists, including Chitlins Con Carne, Come Rain or Come Shine, and Strollin’.

[BBGuitar]

PLAYLIST APRIL 3, 2023 GIG Rexford


Take The A train
Makin Whoopie Tracy
Street Where You Live Alex
Quincy and the Count
Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You Tracy
On The Sunny Side of the Street Alex
Harlem Nocturne [Sax]
The Man I Love Tracy
As Long as I’m Singing Alex
Undecided
Night and Day Tracy
The Best Is Yet To Come Alex
In The Mood
X Save The Last Dance For Me Tracy
I Get A Kick Alex
Tico Tico
Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You Tracy
X Zoot Suit Riot Alex
X Bone Buster
Besame Mucho
Blue Bossa
That’s All

[Lionelsax]

I think I play a little bit more tunes now, I mean comping (10 or 20 more).
That list is the real one : I play the head (no real book, no tablet).