BLAZZ Bluesy Jazz Jazzy Blues

Set List

Clients can choose from this list. Advance requests happily accepted.

BLAZZ song list (* = my song, + = my lyric to a jazz standard)

1. Ain’t Misbehavin’ Bb
2. All Blues Bb
3. All of Me F
4. Autumn Leaves C-
5. Ballad of Bernie Madoff (Blues in E easy-going shuffle)*
6. Black Mountain Blues Eb (Bessie Smith)
7. Bye Bye Blackbird Eb
8. Caldonia Eb
9. Con Alma Ab +
10. Days of Wine and Roses C
11. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore Ab
12. Doxy F
13. Driving Wheel A (Blues, box shuffle bass pattern)
14. Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy C
15. Every Day I Have the Blues Bb
16. Flip, Flop and Fly Bb
17. A Foggy Day C
18. Georgia On My Mind C
19. Girl From Ipanema Eb (only here for requests!)
20. God Bless the Child Bb
21. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues Bb
22. Goin’ Down Slow Bb
23. Guilty C (By Randy Newman. See Bonnie Raitt version.)
24. If Trouble Was Money F
25. I Remember You F
26. Iris + (No key signature, original chords)
27. It Hurts Me Too C
28. It’s Easy to Keep Goin’ F *
29. I Wanna Be Around Eb
30. Kansas City Ab
31. Let The Good Times Roll Ab
32. Lover Come Back D
33. Mercy Mercy Mercy Bb
34. Moonlight in Vermont Bb
35. Moon River G
36. Nature Boy Bb-
37. Next Time You See Me Bb
38. A Night In Tunisia C- +
39. Now’s The Time F
40. Past Sixty Blues (Blues in Ab)
41. Only For The Memories B- *
42. On The Street Where You Live F
43. Out of Nowhere Eb
44. September In the Rain C
45. Skylark C-
46. Something’s Gotta Give Ab
47. Sometime Ago D +
48. Song For My Father F-
49. Stormy Monday F
50. Straight No Chaser F
51. Summertime C-
52. Tanqueray Blues (By Johnnie Johnson Eb, swinging shuffle)
53. Taxation Blues E* (blues, mid-tempo shuffle)
54. Teach Me Tonight Bb
55. They Didn’t Believe Me C (slow ballad)
56. Trouble With a T (16 bar blues for the lyric, solo on 12 bar blues) E*
57. Watermelon Man Ab
58. We’ll Be Together Again A
59. What A Difference A Day Made D (I sing the original lyric in Spanish and then the English lyric.)
60. Where or When D
61. You Belong To Me E
62. You Can’t Spend Your Money In Hell C- *

Influences & Inspiration

I started out with Blues many years ago. Later on I became interested in Jazz - swing, straight ahead, bop, bluesy stuff. For over three years, I studied improvisation as a vocalist in the famous Barry Harris Jazz Workshop in New York City. Prior to that, I studied singing in the Bel Canto style in Denver at a local college and sang in school and church choirs there. When I arrived in New York I continued my vocal studies with an eye toward using my voice in Jazz and Blues
I have played diatonic (blues) harmonica for many years. My original influences were pre WW II players like Sonny Terry. But soon I "graduated" to electrified Chicago Blues as exemplified by Little Walter and Paul Butterfield. But later my Jazz studies changed my style again. I can - and still do - play country blues, acoustic music, Chicago-style blues, and blues/rock. But my preference for when I perform with my own group, BLAZZ, is to bring in Jazz ideas. So I tend to choose Jazz tunes that have a chord progression that is amenable to the 10 hole harmonica.
I also sing many songs from the Great American Songbook and Jazz Standards (some with my own lyrics) that do not work with my harmonica. But I might scat on those to add some spice. BLAZZ's repertoire also includes some great swing/jump blues tunes and some of my original Blues and Jazz tunes.
Please go to (link hidden) to see and hear what I do with my band and with other performers. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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