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"Good enough for jazz"

New Orleans jazz is played by heart and ear. You fake some good old tunes and improvise on the melodies and the chords they are built on. Most of the tunes are forgotten a long time ago, nobody ask for them, nobody should play them, and today they should have been almost useless if it hadn't been for a few persons and bands who love early jazz and try keeping this old music alive. To preserve these tunes is more of a cultural achievement. Often you have to transcribe them from old recordings, because there has not been any sheet music available for many decades, if ever. Below are some which of some reason have occurred. The transcriptions are mostly an interpretation of the song and don't claim to be quite right, simply just "good enough for jazz". The upper section with the chords is for C-instruments (banjo, guitar, piano, bass), the lower with the melody is for instruments tuned in Bb (trumpet, clarinet, soprano- and tenor sax, trombone). Have a look at the tune, memorize it, put in your soul, and play it hot!

Latest added tunes: La Rosita, F, As long as I live, F, Rumba negro, Dm, There'll be some changes made, Bb, Dardanella, Bb, La tendresse, Cm, Coon blues, C, Sweet fields, Eb, Mister Sandman, Bb, Of all the wrongs you've done to me, F, I've found a new baby, F, I'm forever blowing bubbles, Bb, Brown skin gal, C, Porter's love song, F, Heart of my heart, Bb, Dreaming the hours away, F.
Listen to some of the latest added new good old tunes
played by Jazz Pirates. Latest session January 18, 2012.
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Tunes A - I   Tunes J - Y
Click on the name of the tune for melody and chords New on list Listen to the tune
1919 rag, F 100407 Jazz Pirates 2010
2:19 blues (Mamie's blues), F 100426
Adieu foulard, C

 

Jazz Pirates 2011
Red Wing 1996
Adios muchachos, Bb 090824
After the ball, F
110510
Jazz Pirates 2011
Alabama song, Bb 081102 Jazz Pirates 2010
Alabamy bound, F

 

 
Alcoholic blues, F 101215 Jazz Pirates 2010
Algiers strut, F

2004/101226 

Red Wing 2006
Algiers waltz, F

 

 
Alice blue gown, Bb

 

Jazz Pirates 2008
A little street where old folks meet, Eb 090113 Jazz Pirates 2009
Allah's holiday, Eb 090608
All alone, F 081018
All by myself, Bb

 

 
Almost like being in love, Bb 101002
Along the road to Gundagai, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2009
Am I blue?, F

 

 
Amor, Bb 080901/081230
Angelina, Eb 081016
Anita's birthday, F
110808
Jazz Pirates 2011
Any time, F

060125/090518 

Jazz Pirates 2009
A perfect day, Bb

(rev. 090108) 

Congo Square 2002
Apple blossom time, Bb 100501
A si pare, Gm/Bb/Eb
110907
Jazz Pirates 2011
As long as I live, F
120129

At sundown, F 101225
At the cross, F

 

 
A thousand good nights, F
A thousand good nights, Ab

 

Jazz Pirates 2010
Red Wing 2008
Avalon, F
111106

Ban moin en ti bo, F 090426 Jazz Pirates 2011
Beautiful dreamer, F

070130

Jazz Pirates 2009
Beautiful Ohio, F

(lyrics and rev. 090108) 

 
Because of you, Eb 090702
Bechet's fantasy, Eb 090817 Jazz Pirates 2009
Begonia, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2009
Beguin-beguine, F 090602 Jazz Pirates 2009
Beg your pardon, F 090703
Bells of St. Mary's, Eb

 

 
Besame mucho, Dm
111101
Jazz Pirates 2011
Best things in life are free, C

 

 
Big butter and egg man, F 090521 Georgia Ramblers 1968
Big lip blues, Bb
110502

Black and blue, Gm

 


Black beauty, Bb 101208 Jazz Pirates 2010
Black but sweet, Fm 090906 Jazz Pirates 2011
Blanche touquatoux, F 100424
Blessed assurance, Bb 101103
Blue bells goodbye, F

 

 
Blueberry Hill, Bb 100816 Jazz Pirates 2010
Blue blood blues, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2009 
Blue eyes crying in the rain, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2010
Blue Hawaii, Bb

 

 
Blues in the air, Eb/Cm
110616

Blues in thirds, F 091008
Bogalusa strut, Bb (rev.)

070716/100427

Jazz Pirates 2010
Bohunkus blues, Eb 091009 Jazz Pirates 2009
Borneo, F 090914 Jazz Roots trio 1999
Breeze, F 090801
Bring me sunshine, Bb
110408
Jazz Pirates 2011
Brown love, Bb
110214

Brown skin gal, C
111118
Jazz Pirates 2012
Buddy Bolden's blues, F 100312
Burgundy street blues, C

 


Button up your overcoat, F 090328
By the river of the roses, Bb

 

 
Caldonia, F 081208
Candy lips, Bb 090524
Caravan, Fm 100120
Carioca, F 091026 Jazz Pirates 2009
Carnaval ā la Martinique, F 100519 Jazz Pirates 2011
Carnaval is a bacchanal, Eb

 

 
Cecilia, Bb 101023
Ce filon, Bb 100406 Jazz Pirates 2010
Ce mossieu qui parle, Bb 100130 Jazz Pirates 2011
C'est magnifique, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2011
C'est si bon, Bb

070625

 
Charming Trinidad, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2009
China boy, F
110207
Jazz Pirates 2011
Cielito lindo, Bb 090723 Jazz Pirates 2009
Ciribiribin, Eb

 

 
C jam blues, C

 

mysto.jazz.nu 2004
Cloe, Bb

 

 
Coffee grinder, Bb 090304 Jazz Pirates 2010
Collegiate, Eb

 

Red Wing 1996
Come to the Mardi Gras, C

 

 
Cook good, Bb 101212
Coon blues, C
111220

Coquette, Eb

 


Corrine Corrina, Bb

070408 (2004)

Jazz Pirates 2010 
Cradle song, F

061205

New Orleans United 2001
Red Wing 1997
Crazy, Eb

 

 
Creole belles, F 100321 Jazz Pirates 2010
Creole jazz, F 091203/110908 Jazz Pirates 2011
Creole song, Eb

 

Jazz Pirates 2010
Crying in the chapel, C
110921
Jazz Pirates 2011
Cryin' time, F

 

 
Cuban love song, Eb 101024
Curse of an aching heart, Bb

 

 
Cushion foot stomp, Eb 100608
Dancin' with the one you love, C

 

 
Danny boy, F

 

 
Dans les rues d'Antibes, F/Bb
110324

Dardanella, Bb
120108

Dark eyes, Gm 100719 Jazz Pirates 2010
Darkness on the delta, Eb

061204

Red Wing 2006
Corona Jazzband 1998
Darling Nellie Gray, Eb 101029 Jazz Pirates 2010
Dear old Southland, F

 

 
Deep purple, F

 

 
Delicado, G 110115
Delta mood, F

2005/090809

Jazz Pirates 2009
Den första gång jag såg dig, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2010
Did I remember, Eb

 

 
Diga diga doo, Dm

 

Jazz Pirates 2011
Doctor Jazz, Eb
110418
Jazz Pirates 2011
Does Jesus care? Bb

 

Red Wing 2008
Do Lord, Bb

 

Jazz Pirates 2010
Don't give up the ship, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2009
Don't leave me now, Bb
110615
Jazz Pirates 2011
Don't sweetheart me, F

 


Don't worry 'bout me, Bb 100923
Don't you feel my leg, F 100911
Down by the old mill stream, F

 

 
Down home rag, Bb

 

 
Down in honky-tonky town, Bb 100908 Jazz Pirates 2010
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans, Bb

071011/101130

 
Dream, Bb 090720
Dreaming the hours away, F
111109
Jazz Pirates 2011
Drum boogie, Eb

 

 
Där näckrosen blommar, Bb

 

Red Wing 2008
Eccentric, Bb 101229
Egyptian fantasy, Gm/Bb
110714

Eh, la bas!, F

 

 
El cumbanchero, Dm 110205 Jazz Pirates 2011
Elephant stomp, Bb

 

Jazz Pirates 2009
End of the world, Eb

 

 
Enjoy yourself, Bb

 

Jazz Pirates 2011
Everywhere you go, Eb

 

 
Exactly like you, Bb 101105
Far away blues, Bb

 

 
Farewell blues, Bb 100530 Jazz Pirates 2010
Mystos Quintet 2003
Farewell to Storyville, F

070228

 
Femme Martinique doux, Gm 081208 Jazz Pirates 2011
Fidgety feet, Bb/Eb/Ab (new clearer)
Fidgety feet, Bb/Eb/Ab

 111024
2005

 
Float me down the river, Ab

 

Jazz Pirates 2011
For all we know, F

 

 
Forgive me, F 100806 Jazz Pirates 2010
For once in my life, Bb, advanced

 

 
For once in my life, Bb, NO-style

 

 
Four or five times, Eb 100213
Frankie and Johnny, Bb
110820

Gatemouth, Eb

 

 
Gentle Annie, F

 

Red Wing 2006
Georgia on my mind, F

 

 
Get happy, F 100817 Jazz Pirates 2010
Get out of here, Bb
110228
Jazz Pirates 2011
Red Wing 1997
Gettysburg march, Ab 100203
Girl of my dreams, Bb

 

Jazz Pirates 2010
Corona Jazzband 1998
Give it up, F

 

Red Wing 1996
Red Wing 1995
Glory of love, F

 


Goin' home (Colyer), C
110309

Graveyard blues, C

061101

Red Wing 1997
Gypsy love song, Bb

 

Red Wing 1996
Harbor lights, Eb 080919
Hard times, Eb 090831 Jazz Pirates 2009
Hawaiian melody, C 101220 Jazz Pirates 2011
Heartaches, F 090314 Jazz Pirates 2009
Heart of my heart, Bb
111113
Jazz Pirates 2011
Heebie jeebies, Bb
110203
Jazz Pirates 2011
Here comes the hot tamale man, Eb

071129

 
Here I stand with my heart in my hand, Eb
111015

Hesitating blues, F
110503

He touched me, F

 

 
He will remember me, Bb 091122
Hiawatha, Bb/Eb

 

Jazz Pirates 2010 
Higher ground, F 100221 Jazz Pirates 2010
Highways are happy ways, Eb

 


Hindustan, C

 

Red Wing 2008 
His eye is on the sparrow, Ab

 

Red Wing 2006
His eye is on the sparrow, F (George Lewis)

 

 
Holding my Saviour's hand, Bb

How can you face me?, Bb 100805
How great Thou art, Bb

 110404

 
Hymn for George Lewis, Ab
100115
Jazz Pirates 2010
Hymn to freedom, C (NO chords)
Hymn to freedom, C

091128
050709 

Jazz Pirates 2009
Red Wing 2008
I ain't gonna give nobody none of my jelly roll, Bb 100725
I am a pilgrim, F 100306
I believe in miracles, Bb 091109 Jazz Pirates 2009
I can't escape from you, Bb

 

 
Ice cream, C

 

 
If I had my life to live over, Bb

 

 
If I had my way, Bb
110823
Jazz Pirates 2011
If I had you, Bb
111003

I hate a man like you, Gm 100622 Jazz Pirates 2010
Iko iko, C

 

Jazz Pirates 2011
I let a song go out of my heart, Eb
110813

I like bananas because they have no bones, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2011 
I'll always be in love with you, Bb 100524
I'll be seeing you, Eb 090129
I'll fly away, F
I'll fly away, Eb

100807


I'll see you in C-U-B-A, Bb 091011 Jazz Pirates 2009
I'll see you in my dreams, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2011
I'll take you home again, Kathleen, Eb

 

Jazz Pirates 2009
I lost my gal from Memphis, Dm 091228 Jazz Pirates 2010
I love you, F

 

Linder/Collin 1997
I min lilla lilla värld av blommor, F
(In my small small world of flowers, F)

 

Jazz Pirates 2009
Red Wing 2004
I'm coming Virginia, F 110109 Jazz Pirates 2011
I'm confessin' that I love you, Bb

 

 
I'm forever blowing bubbles, Bb
111124

I'm going home to see my Lord, C 101001 Red Wing 2008
I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter, Bb

 

 
I'm living good, F

 

 
I'm looking over a four leaf clover
110711

I'm nobody's baby, Eb
I'm nobody's baby, F

090123
070108

 
I'm putting all my eggs in one basket, C

 

 
I'm sorry I made you cry, Bb

 

 
I'm with you where you are, Eb 110104 Jazz Pirates 2011
I must have that man, Bb
090103/110407
In a little Spanish town, Bb

 

Jazz Pirates 2011
In a Persian market, Bb
110818

In a shanty in old shanty town, F

 

 
Indian love call, Eb 100201 Red Wing 1998
Indian summer, F 091226
In my heart there is a yearning, F

080109

Jazz Pirates 2010
Into each life some rain must fall, C

 

 
In the garden, F

 

 
In the gloaming, F 090823
In the good old summertime, Bb

 

 
In the mood, F

 

 
In the shade of the old apple tree, F

 


In the sweet bye and bye, F

 

 
In the upper garden, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2010 
Irish black bottom, F 091022
I surrender, dear, C

Is it true what they say about Dixie? F

090608 

Jazz Pirates 2011
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing, Bb
110524

I thank you, mister Moon, F

 

 
It is no secret, Bb 100213
It's all because of you, Bb

 

 
It's me, o Lord, Eb
111013
Jazz Pirates 2011
It's nobody's fault but mine, Bb

 

 
I used to love you, Ab 100621 Jazz Pirates 2010
I've found a new baby, F
111208

I've got everything, Bb
I've got everything, C
090913
090903

I wanna be like you, Bb

 

 
I wanna be loved by you, F 090526
I want a little girl, F

 


I want to be happy, C 100902 Jazz Pirates 2010
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2009 
I wonder who's kissing her now, F

 

 
Tunes J - Y
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