[Harp-L] Re: Pop tunes on harp

["Tim Moyer - Working Man's Harps" <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, what I sent was a song list and not a repertoire, which includes many other songs that we didn't play in that two hour set I related.  Some of those are:
   
  Ain't Misbehavin' (Fats Waller) 
Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers) 
Black Coffee (Sarah Vaughn) 
Black Orpheus (Manha De Carnival) (Luiz Bonfa) 
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Tony Bennett) 
Comin' Home Baby (Quincy Jones) 
Funny How Time Slips Away (Willie Nelson) 
God Bless The Child (Billie Holiday) 
In' Crowd (The Ramsey Lewis Trio) 
Jive Samba (Quincy Jones) 
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Cannonball Adderly) 
One For My Baby (Frank Sinatra) 
Road Song (Wes Montgomery) 
Senor Blues (Horace Silver) 
Watermelon Man (Panco Sanchez) 
Well You Needn't (Thelonious Monk) 
You Talk That Talk (Gene Ammon) 

  As you can see, not many blues tunes in that list.  Our guitarist's idea of "blues" is God Bless the Child, which is just fine by me.  
   
  George mentions Christmas songs, and we also have a short repertoire of Christmas material that we maintain.  On of the most lucrative times for booking for us is at the Christmas season, when we get hired by companies to play their Christmas (p.c.: "Holiday Season") parties.  Many times they don't want Christmas songs, but sometimes they do.  This year we played a 45-minute set in the foyer prior to a couple of ballet performances of the Nutcracker, which was fun.  Christmas songs include:
   
  Feliz Navidad
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays
I'll Be Home For Christmas
Let It Snow
Please Come Home For Christmas
White Christmas
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
What Child Is This
The Christmas Song

  I'm really sorry I missed a chance to see George's acoustic Latin band, that would have been a treat.  I did see George perform a couple of these kinds of pieces at SPAH in Denver, and it was delightful, inspirational for me.  He has a wonderful acoustic tone, that I strive to emulate; very trumpet-like.  I wish I'd made better recordings.
   
  -tim
  

George Brooks <gbrooks1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  I guess it's not surprising that my (mainly non-blues) repertoire 
overlaps with Rob and Tim's. Rob mentions "O Grande Amor," a bossa 
nova by Antonio Carlos Jobim that is mysteriously little known and 
little played. I think it's one of the greatest things he ever wrote, 
and Stan Getz's solo on the version of the song on the Getz/Gilberto 
album (with Joao Gilberto singing in Portuguese and Jobim on piano) 
changed the way I think about what a horn can sound like and the 
direction I wanted my playing to go. It's a towering landmark in my 
personal musical landscape.

In my Latin acoustic band, now defunct, we played many of the bossa 
novas, including:

Chega de Saudade (the definitive version is on Dizzy On The French 
Riviera; if you hear it I do not think that you will disagree)
Favela (Stan Getz w/Jobim and Luiz Bonfa!)
Desafinado
Corcovado
The Girl From Ipanema
One Note Samba
Wave
Meditation
Insensitive

and more. We also did five or six Beatles songs, but in Latin acoustic 
versions. And, of course, The Christmas Song and the Wedding March.

George