music

The motto on our home page - “From Ragtime to Swing” - sums up BIG EASY’s repertoire and style. Most of our numbers are based on recordings made by bands such as those of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, etc. Earlier material comes from the likes of Jelly Roll Morton, McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, and King Oliver, and we also do several classic ragtime numbers. Most of the arrangements are based on recordings made by these classic bands in the 1920s and 30s. Some arrangements (including the ragtime pieces) have been developed from piano copies. All the arrangements are by band members.

Our current repertoire is listed below in “Book” order. Vocals are indicated by “LL”, “TP”, “KD”, ”PF” “Band”, to indicate Linda Leigh, Terry Perry, Ken Dickinson, Pete Fryer, and “The Band” respectively.

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You’re a Heavenly Thing
Mood Indigo
Shout ‘em Aunt Tilly
I’m Coming Virginia
Stevedore Stomp
Laughing at Life
If Dreams Come True
Where you There ?
This Little Light of Mine
Jamaica March
Double Check Stomp
Cleopatra’s Blues
Limehouse Blues
Bohemia Rag
Stompy Jones
Doctor Jazz
Shake It and Break It
Squeeze Me
Dancy Dancy
Sing, you Sinners
Christopher Columbus
Echo Blues
Washboard Wiggles
Stealin’ Apples
St. Louis Blues
Bouncing Around
Ponchartrain Blues
Do Doodle-oom
Milneburg Joys
New Orleans
In a Persian Market
South Rampart St. Parade
Crazy ‘Bout my Baby
Solitude
Savoy Blues
I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues
I let a song
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Breeze
Clementine
Bethena
Snake Rag
Muskrat Ramble
Creole Love Call
I Wished on the Moon
Reindeer Rag
Sidewalk Blues
Bugle Call Rag
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Swipesy Cakewalk

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Old Man Blues
Shimmee Shawabble
Black Beauty
Keepin’ out of Mischief
Black and Tan Fantasy
Ostrich Walk
The Mooche
King Porter Stomp
Buddy Bolden’s Blues
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
Down By The Riverside
Davenport Blues
Old Rockin’ Chair
How I Wish
Goody Goody
West Indies Blues
Six or Seven Times
The Chant
Louisiana
Jackass Blues
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen
Elite Syncopations
Should I Reveal
Careless Love
New Orleans Shuffle
Sophisticated Lady
Stormy Weather
Minnie the Moocher
Moten Swing
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Them There Eyes
Summertime
South
I Never Knew
Dreaming The Hours Away
Indian Summer
Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man
If I Could Be With You One Hour
Back In Your Own Back Yard
Solace
Nagasaki
Blue Lou
Some Of These Days