| Jazz and Latin arrangements – Slow | ||
| 23
titles | ||
| 1. |
Angel Eyes
Level
IV
A slow, heartrending jazz ballad
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| 2. |
Black Coffee
Level
IV
An a cappella arrangement of the famous big band version sung by Julie London
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| 3. |
Blackbird
Level
III
A melancholy song of The Beatles in an elegant jazz arrangement
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| 4. |
Darn That Dream
SSATB
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SATTB
Level
III
Easy listening with fine jazz chords
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| 5. |
Do U Lie
Level
III/IV
A jazzy song with a frothy melody by Prince (!)
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| 6. |
Don’t Wait Too Long
Level
II/III
A new jazz standard, written by Madeleine Peyroux herself
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| 7. |
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
SSATTB
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SSA with piano
Level
III
A nice jazz ballad, well known in the pop world from the Simply Red cover
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| 8. |
House Is Not a Home, A
Level
III
A classic a cappella song rewritten for SSAB
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| 9. |
In My Life
Level
IV
Darmon Meader’s arrangement, rewritten for SSAB
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| 10. |
Lover Man
Level
II
...I don’t know why, but I’m feelin’ so sad...
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| 11. |
Miss Celie’s Blues
Level
IV
The blues sung by Tata Fega in Stevens Spielberg’s “The Color Purple”
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| 12. |
Moody’s Mood for Love
Level
V
A well-known vocalese as Quincy Jones recorded with Take 6
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| 13. |
My Funny Valentine
Level
IV
A beautiful setting of this well-known standard
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| 14. |
Round Midnight
Level
IV
A grand ballad by this capricious jazz pianist
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| 15. |
She
Level
III
One of the most wanted songs at funerals
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| 16. |
Skylark
Level
V
The Phil Mattson arrangement, somewhat simplified and with a slightly different voicing
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| 17. |
Somewhere
Level
III
A standard from the musical “West Side Story”
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| 18. |
That Ever I Saw
Level
I/II
The song Darmon Meader wrote for his wedding, rearranged for female voices
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| 19. |
That’s the Way It Goes
Level
II
Genuine doo-wop from the fifties
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| 20. |
Walk Softly
Level
III
...If you ever leave me, please walk softly, I don’t want to hear you go...
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| 21. |
Water under Bridges
Level
III
A restrained song from the Grammy-winning singer Gregory Porter
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| 22. |
Who Needs You
Level
II/III
A beautifully tranquil ballad by a contemporary Dutch jazz singer
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| 23. |
You’ll Never Walk Alone
Level
III
Hit from the sixties, often sung at football games, but it still is a beautiful song
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