Beat-Route
Besides letting the cat out at night, morning strolls along south beach, bicycling through the hillier (yes.) parts of kloof and looking after the kids, Beat-route is trying to tackle the monstrous repertoire of jazz standards that ‘any self respecting jazz band should be able to throw a bucket at’. Focus shifts from the classic swing material to the groovier stuff to the pop stuff including the Beatles and Bob (irie Selassie) legacies (you gotta love that stuff played in the jazz idiom) and sometimes slightly to the left of all of the above. So far our repertoire includes the following (and then some – Gerald is a blimen real book in himself “ What song?… Oh okay, what key?” Criminy, how can you go wrong!)
Repertoire list:
We are always adding new songs and welcome any requests you may have. Most tunes are standards but a few are original compositions of Mr Gerald Sloan.
Song list
- 3 to 5
- A Night in Tunisia
- All blues
- All night long
- All of me
- All the things you are
- Autumn leaves
- Baby wants to know
- Beautiful love
- Blue bossa
- Blues for Kessy
- Body n soul
- Broadway
- Bye bye blackbird
- C jam blues
- Cantaloupe island
- Cantaloupe woman
- Caravan
- Comin home
- Days of wine and roses
- Deed I do
- Do you know what it means
- Falling in Love with Love
- F blues
- Fly me to the moon
- Footprints
- Four
- Freddie freeloader
- Gee blues
- Giant steps
- Girl from ipanema
- Green dolphin st
- Harlem nocturne
- Have You Met Miss Jones
- How High the Moon
- It don’t mean a thing
- Judy Grind
- Lets fall in love
- Little sunflower
- Mac the knife
- Mannenberg
- Mercy mercy mercy
- Midnight voyage
- Milestones
- Mo betta blues
- Mr pc
- My baby just cares for me
- My favorite things
- No greater love
- No hugging
- Patta patta
- Pink panther
- Route 66
- Royal blue
- Satin doll
- Saving all my love
- So what
- Softly
- Solar
- Someday my prince will come
- Somewhere over the rainbow
- Song for joe
- Song for my father
- Summertime
- Take the a train
- Tin tin deo
- Togethering
- Walkin
- Watermelon man
- When the saints
- Willow weepfor me
- Woody woodpecker
- Yardbird suite