Joyce Spencer & Expressions

Set List

Jazz Traditional

All Blues, Miles Davis
All of Me, Ruth Etting
Almost Like Being in Love, Frank Sinatra/Nat King Cole
A Night in Tunisia, Dizzy Gillespie
At Last, Etta James
Autumn Leaves, Nat King Cole
Black Orpheus, Wayne Shorter
Blue Bossa, Dexter Gordan
Blue Train, John Coltrane
The Chicken, Pee Wee Ellis/Jaco Pastorius
C Jam Blues, Duke Ellington
Cold Duck Time, Eddie Harris
Equinox, John Coltrane
Fly Me to the Moon, Frank Sinatra
Footprints, Wayne Shorter
Four, Miles Davis
God Bless the Child, Billie Holiday
Impressions, John Coltrane
Killer Joe, Benny Golson
L-O-V-E, Nat King Cole
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Cannonball Adderley
Misty, Ella Fitsgerald/Johnny Mathis
Mr. PC, John Coltrane
My Funny Valentine, Chet Baker/Frank Sinatra
Naima, John Coltrane
Route 66, Nat King Cole
Satin Doll, Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn
Song for My Father, Horace Silver
St. Thomas, Sonny Rollins
Summertime, Gershwin
Work Song, Nat & Cannonball Adderley
You go to My Head, Billie Holiday

Jazz Contemporary/Smooth/Fusion
ACDC, Billy Cobham
Breezing, George Benson
Cantaloupe Island
Chameleon, Herbie Hancock
The Chicken, Alfred James Ellis
Cissy Strut, The Meters
Feel Like Making Love, Roberta Flack
Friends & Strangers, Ronnie Laws
Inseparable, Natalie Cole
Jezebel, Sade
Keep That Same Old Feeling, Crusaders
Keep it Simple, Joyce Spencer
Kiss of Life, Sade
Little Sunflower, Freddie Hubbard
The Look of Love, Diana Kroll
Maputo, David Sanborn
Mr. Magic, Grover Washington
Night Rhythms, Lee Ritenour
No Ordinary Love, Sade
Nothing Can Come Between Us, Sade
Ordinary People, John Legend
Paradise, Sade
Smooth Operator, Sade
Soldier of Love, Sade
Street Life, Randy Crawford & Crusaders
The Sweetest Taboo, Sade
Sweet Dreams, Joyce Spencer
Songbird, Kenny G
The Sweetest Taboo, Sade
Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper/Miles Davis
Watermelon Man, Herbie Hancock
Winelight, Grover Washington
Why Can't We Live Together, Sade

R&B/Pop/Funk/Blues/Reggae/Classic Rock
All I Do, Stevie Wonder
All of Me, John Legend
Arms of an Angel, Sara McLachlan
Ain't No Sunshine, Bill Withers
Ascension, Maxwell
Atomic Dog, George Clinton
Back Stabbers, O'Jays
Back to Life, Soul ll Soul
Before I Let Go, Frankie Beverly & Maze
Between the Sheets, Isley Brothers
Billy Jean, Michael Jackson
Brickhouse, Commodores
Bring it on Home to Me, Sam Cooke
A Change Gon' Come, Sam Cook
Deja Vu, Beyonce
Don't it Make my Brown Eyes Blue
Don't Mess with my Toot Toot, Rockin Sydney
Down Home Blues, Etta James
Don’t Stop Believin, Journey
Exhale (Shoop), Whitney Houston
Fine, Mary J Blige
Flashlight, Parliament
Fly Like an Eagle, Steve Miller Band
Get Down on It, Kool and the Gang
Give Me One Reason, Tracy Chapman
Happy, Pharrell Williams
Happy Feelings, Frankie Beverly & Maze
Higher Ground, Stevie Wonder
I Keep Forgetting, Michael McDonald
If You Want Me to Stay, Sly & The Family Stone
Iko, Iko, The Dixie Cups
I'll Be Around, Spinners
I'll Take You There, Staple Singers
I See You, Joyce Spencer
Isn't She Lovely, Stevie Wonder
Inseparable, Natalie Cole
I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor
Jamaica Funk, Chaka Kahn
Joy & Pain, Frankie Beverly & Maze
Just My Imagination, Temptations
Just the Two of Us, Grover Washington/Bill Withers
Last Two Dollars- Johnny Taylor
Let's Stay Together, Al Green
Living for the Love of You, Isley Brothers
Love & Happiness, Al Green
Love TKO, Teddy Pendergrass
Lovely Day- Bill Withers
Make It Funky, James Brown
Mr. Magic, Grover Washington
Mustang Sally, Wilson Pickett
My Girl, Temptations
Oops Upside Your Head, Gap Band
Open Arms, Journey
Outstanding, Gap Band
Papa was a Rolling Stone, Temptations
People Get Ready, Curtis Mayfield
Pick Up the Pieces, Average White Band
Proud Mary, Ike & Tina Turner
Reasons, Earth, Wind & Fire
Remember the Times, Michael Jackson
Ribbon in the Sky, Stevie Wonder
Rock With You, Michael Jackson
Running Away, Frankie Beverly & Maze
Sara Smile, Hall & Oates
September, Earth, Wind & Fire
Shake It Off, Taylor Swift
Shut Up and dance, Walk the Moon
Single Ladies, Beyonce
So Amazing, Luther Vandross
So in Love (with you), Jill Scott & Anthony Hamilton
Soldier of Love, Sade
Soul Man, Sam & Dave
Somebody Loves You Baby Patti Labelle
Soulful Strutt, Young-Hold Unlimited
Square Biz, Teena Marie
Stormy Weather, Ethel Waters
Sunny, Bobby Hebb
Tell Me Something Good, Chaka Kahn
Tennessee Whiskey, Chris Stapleton
Thank you (for lettin' me be myself), Sly & The Family Stone
That's the Way Love Goes, Janet Jackson
That's the Way of the World, Earth, Wind & Fire
This is How We Do It, Montell Jordan
Three Little Birds, Bob Marley
Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper
Uptown Funk, Bruno Mars
Use Me, Bill Withers
The Way, Jill Scott
The Way You Move, EWF & Kenny G
We Are One, Frankie Beverly & Maze
What I'd Say, Ray Charles
What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
What You Won't Do for Love, Bobby Caldwell
Wild Wild West, Will Smith/Stevie Wonder
Work to Do, Isley Brothers
Yearning, Gap Band
You Dropped a Bomb on Me, Gap Band

Influences & Inspiration

Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Journey, Queen, Whitney Houston, Sade, The Temptations, Smokey Robins & The Miracles, Chaka Kahn, John Coltrane, Ronnie Laws, Hubert Laws, Gerald Albright, Kirk Whalum, Kenny G, Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson, Parliament , etc

Setup Requirements

See technical notes section above.