They have compiled a choice repertoire consisting of classic ‘hot jazz’ 1920s/30s/40s hits/Gypsy Jazz/Ragtime/instrumental options that can adapt to atmospheric background music, to centre stage at a swinging Gatsby party!
With over a decade of regularly gigging along the South Coast (U.K) and London, the pair and have since teamed up with many talented musicians, adding to the line-up for fuller sounds/swinging parties – double bass/drums/guitar and brass players are now part of the ever-growing collective.
They can also provide ‘roaming entertainment’ ideal for garden parties/crowd mingling.
Highlights from their authentic 1920s/30s/40s repertoire:
It Don’t Mean a Thing (Duke Ellington)
Charleston (Classic Ragtime hit – A must for any ‘Gatsby party)
After You’ve Gone (Django Reinhardt)
Confessin’ (Louis Armstrong)
Dream a little Dream (Ella Fitzgerald)
La Vie En Rose (Edith Piaf)
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Fats Waller)
Sing Sing Sing (Louis Prima)
All of Me (Classic Jazz standard)
Classic ‘Tin Pan Alley’ hits
Song List
Modern with a Vintage twist:
Magic – Coldplay
Get Lucky – Pharell Williams
Crazy in love – Beyounce
This Love – Maroon 5
Billie Jean – M. Jackson
Crosses – jose gonzalez
Shake it off – Taylor Swift
Song 2 – Blur
1920s/30s/40s
After You’ve Gone – Django Reinhardt
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Fats Waller
All I Do Is Dream Of You
All of Me
Am I Blue – Ruth Etting
Bei Mir Bist Du Schein – The Andrews Sisters
Blue Moon
Blueberry Hill – Fats Domino
Button Up Your Overcoat – Ruth Etting
Bye Bye Blackbird
Caravan
Charleston
Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie – Louis Jordan
Confessin’
Crazy Rhythm
Dark Eyes
Dinah
Down by the Riverside – traditional
Dream a Little Dream – Ella Fitzgerald
Everybody Wants to be a Cat
Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You – Ella Fitzgerald
Georgia On My Mind
Honeysuckle Rose
I Got Rhythm
I’ll see you in my dreams
I Like Pie I Like Cake
I Wanna Be Like You
I Saw Stars
I’ve Found a New Baby – Ethel Waters
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby – Louis Jordan
It Don’t Mean A Thing – Ella Fitzgerald
Jeepers Creepers – Louis Armstrong
Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody – Louis Prima
La Vie En Rose – Edith Piaf
Love me or Leave me – Nina Simone
Minnie The Moocher – Cab Calloway
Nagasaki – Django Reinhardt
Night and Day
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
Please don’t talk about me when I’m gone
Puttin’ on The Ritz
Summertime – Ella Fitzgerald
Sing Sing Sing
Sweet Georgia Brown
Some of these Days
The Bare Necessities
Undecided
Walking Stick
We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) – The Ink Spots
You Always Hurt the One You Love – The Ink Spots
You Are My Sunshine