What we do

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

  1. 3 to 5
  2. A Night in Tunisia
  3. All blues
  4. All night long
  5. All of me
  6. All the things you are
  7. Autumn leaves
  8. Baby wants to know
  9. Beautiful love
  10. Blue bossa
  11. Blues for Kessy
  12. Body n soul
  13. Broadway
  14. Bye bye blackbird
  15. C jam blues
  16. Cantaloupe island
  17. Cantaloupe woman
  18. Caravan
  19. Comin home
  20. Days of wine and roses
  21. Deed I do
  22. Do you know what it means
  23. Falling in Love with Love
  24. F blues
  25. Fly me to the moon
  26. Footprints
  27. Four
  28. Freddie freeloader
  29. Gee blues
  30. Giant steps
  31. Girl from ipanema
  32. Green dolphin st
  33. Harlem nocturne
  34. Have You Met Miss Jones
  35. How High the Moon
  36. It don’t mean a thing
  37. Judy Grind
  38. Lets fall in love
  39. Little sunflower
  40. Mac the knife
  41. Mannenberg
  42. Mercy mercy mercy
  43. Midnight voyage
  44. Milestones
  45. Mo betta blues
  46. Mr pc
  47. My baby just cares for me
  48. My favorite things
  49. No greater love
  50. No hugging
  51. Patta patta
  52. Pink panther
  53. Route 66
  54. Royal blue
  55. Satin doll
  56. Saving all my love
  57. So what
  58. Softly
  59. Solar
  60. Someday my prince will come
  61. Somewhere over the rainbow
  62. Song for joe
  63. Song for my father
  64. Summertime
  65. Take the a train
  66. Tin tin deo
  67. Togethering
  68. Walkin
  69. Watermelon man
  70. When the saints
  71. Willow weepfor me
  72. Woody woodpecker
  73. Yardbird suite