Set list from First Friday at Big City Swing 1/9/2009

I was really pleased with how this set went. When I started around 8:45 there were almost 40 people at the beginner 6-count lesson, and they stuck around for quite a bit longer than newcomers typically do, which is great. The first half of my set was pretty geared towards keeping those folks happy.

1. A Woman's Intuition - Stompy Jones - Stompy Jones - 3:17 - 140
2. Strictly Instrumental - Harry James - The Best Of Big Bands - 2:56 - 135
3. Mack The Knife - Ella Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife: The Complete Ella In Berlin (Live) - 4:39 - 140
4. Good Evenin' Good Lookin' (Helen Forrest, Vocals) - Benny Goodman - Benny Goodman - 3:10 - 150
5. Sent For You Yesterday - George Gee - If Dreams Come True - 3:32 - 165
6. Big John's Special - Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz Orchestra - Radio Rhythm - 3:18 - 170
7. Hoodle-Addle - Ray McKinley Orchestra - You Came A Long Way From St. Louis - 3:21 - 140
8. All Of Me - Helen O'Connell - Great Girl Singers, Sing 22 Original Hits - 2:09 - 145
9. TV Is The Thing This Year - Dianne Reeves - Good Night, And Good Luck - 1:43 - 160
10. You Talk a Little Trash - Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five - Crazy Rhythm - 3:55 - 170
11. Now Or Never - Katharine Whalen - Jazz Squad - 2:13 - 165 (The last couple songs were pretty high energy, and the floor thinned a little bit. I saw Jenna and Max dancing together. They had taught the beginner lesson, so I picked out another song I thought that they'd like and that they might show off to. But then they didn't dance together, so I had to grab Jenna for a dance. Such a chore, I know.)
    
12. When I Grow Too Old To Dream - Cats & The Fiddle - We Cats Will Swing For You - 2:47 - 200
    (Taking the tempo down a little, but trying to keep things peppy.)
    
13. It's De-Lovely - The Boilermaker Jazz Band - Give Me Your Telephone Number - 4:04 - 150
14. Shout, Sister, Shout! - Sister Rosetta Tharpe - The Gospel of the Blues - 2:41 - 145
15. Onion - Louis Jordan - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five, 1938-1940, Volume 1 (Disc - 2:55 - 170
16. Route 66 - Linda Hopkins - Wild Women Blues - 3:05 - 160
17. Let Me Off Uptown - Roy Eldridge - Little Jazz - 3:24 - 130 (Chilling out, letting people take a breather before I build back up again.)
18. All That Meat And No Potatoes - Fats Waller - The Unique Mr. Waller - 2:47 - 140
19. Blues for Stephanie - Paul Tillotson the Love Trio - Lindy Hop Blues - 4:29 - 130
20. A Viper's Moan - Mora's Modern Rhythmists - Call Of The Freaks - 3:30 - 140
21. Me, Myself And I - Billie Holiday - A Musical Romance - 2:37 - 155
22. Ja-Da - The Famous Castle Jazz Band - The Five Pennies - 3:07 - 150
23. Give My Regards To Broadway - Pete Fountain - Dixieland's Kings - 2:37 - 170
24. Shake That Thing - Vince Giordano's Nighthawks - The Aviator Music From The Motion Picture - 3:00 - 225
25. Don't You Miss Your Baby - Jimmy Witherspoon - Jimmy Witherspoon & Panama Francis' Savoy Sultans - 3:55 - 140
26. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Sarah Vaughan - Ken Burns Jazz - 2:43 - 125
27. El Salon De Gutbucket - Engelbert Wröbel's Swing Society - Sophisticated Swing - 5:16 - 140
28. Lean Baby - Illinois Jacquet - Flying Home - 3:05 - 125
29. Solid As A Rock - Ella Fitzgerald - Swingin' Ella - 3:00 - 145
30. Bei Mir Bist Du Schane - Janis Siegel - Swing Kids - 4:11 - 150 (If you're new to swing dancing, like much of the crowd, you may have never heard this song before. Think what you'd be missing!)
31. I'se Muggin' - Django Reinhardt - Django Reinhardt 1: Swing Guitars - 3:07 - 170
32. My Blue Heaven - Stuff Smith Quartet - Swingin' Stuff - 3:46 - 160
33. That's a Plenty - Kevin Clark - New Orleans Trumpet - 5:06 - 205 (This song was used for a performance by the Tacky Annies, Jenna's all-female dance troupe.)
34. When You're Smiling - The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn - Forty Days and Forty Nights - 3:51 - 215
35. Tutti Frutti - Slim Gaillard - 1938-46 - 2:38 - 170 (Crowd has thinned out a little bit by now, and more advanced dancers are starting to appear.)
36. Rockin' In Rhythm - Duke Ellington - Early Ellington: The Complete Brunswick and Vocalion Recordings of Duke Ellington, 1926-1931 - 3:02 - 185
37. The Dipsey Doodle - Mora's Modern Rhythmists - Call Of The Freaks - 2:58 - 180
38. For Dancers Only - John Lewis, The American Jazz Orchestra - The Music Of Jimmie Lunceford - 4:34 - 145
39. Sugar In My Bowl - Miss Tess - When Tomorrow Comes - 3:15 - 105
40. Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now - Louis Armstrong - Satch Plays Fats (Remaster) - 3:21 - 130
41. Ain't Misbehavin' - Sidney Bechet - Perdido Street Blues - 2:52 - 145
42. Take It Easy Greasy No. 2 - Lil Johnson - Lil Johnson & Barrelhouse Annie Vol. 3 1937 - 2:58 - 145
43. Viper mad - Swing Parade South - Hommage à Sidney Bechet - 4:30 - 175 (Going from janky to groovy..)
44. Makin' Whoopee - Clora Bryant - ...Gal With A Horn - 3:34 - 120
45. Nature Boy - Johnny Hartman - For Trane - 3:29 - 142
46. Boys from Harlem - Randy Sandke And The Nagel Heyer Allstars - Uptown Lowdown - 3:33 - 160
47. In a Mellow Tone - Count Basie - Blues In Orbit - 2:40 - 165
48. Six-appeal - Charlie Christian - Six-appeal - 3:20 - 145
49. You Don't Know What Love Is - Rachelle Ferrell - First Instrument - 5:14 - 120
50. Growling Dog - Harlem Hamfats - Let's Get Drunk And Truck - 2:40 - 120
51. Georgia Cake Walk - Eddie Condon - We Called It Music - 3:06 - 165
52. The Back Room Romp - Duke Ellington - The Duke's Men: The Small Groups, Vol. 1 - 2:49 - 150
53. Don't Go Away Nobody-Edit-200 - The Boilermaker Jazz Band - Give Me Your Telephone Number - 2:02 - 200 (End of the night, Jenna and I intended to practice our routine in a corner, but then everybody started watching and clapping.)
54. Flying Home - Lionel Hampton - Lionel Hampton Story 2: Flying Home - 3:10 - 195 (Big apple, of course.)
55. Gettin' Some Fun Out Of Life - New Orleans Jazz Vipers - Hope You're Comin' Back - 5:30 - 120 (Request from Skibo.)
56. Hey Hey - Big Bill Broonzy - Jazz Masters Of Acoustic Guitar And Some Bluesmen Too - 2:54 - 150
57. 'Long About Midnight - Cab Calloway - The Early Years 1930-1934 - 3:06 - 170

Here's a very ghetto frequency distribution of bpm over the set. The 140-180 bpm range is what seemed to keep the new folks happy.

220 *
210 *
200 ***
190 *
180 **
170 ********
160 ********
150 *******
140 ***************
130 ****
120 ******
110
100 *