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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. The tunes are mostly in the style that was popular in the "roaring twenties". We always search for new oldies to jam on. Below are some we like. The transcriptions are mostly an interpretation av 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).

Latest added tunes: I want to be happy, C, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Bb (corr. of Go to the Mardi Gras), Get happy, F, Blueberry Hill, Bb, Papa De-Da-Da, Eb (corr.), I'll fly away, F (key/corr.), Forgive me, F, How can you face me?, Bb, Love song of the Nile, C (corr.), Over the waves, Bb, I ain't gonna give nobody none of my jelly roll, Bb, Strike up the band, Bb, Dark eyes, Gm, September song, Bb, True, you don't love me, Eb (corr.), Too busy, Bb (corr.), What is this thing called love? C, Jet black blues, Eb, I hate a man like you, Gm, I used to love you, Ab, Panama, Eb/Ab, Cushion foot stomp, Eb, You rascal you, Fm, Farewell blues, Bb, I'll always be in love with you, Bb, Ole miss, F/Bb, Carnaval à la Martinique, F, September in the rain, Eb.
Listen to some of these latest added new good old tunes
as played by Jazz Pirates. Latest session August 25, 2010.
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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

 

Red Wing 1996
Adios muchachos, Bb 090824
Alabama song, Bb 081102 Jazz Pirates 2010
Alabamy bound, F

 

 
Algiers strut, F

 

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

 

 
Along the road to Gundagai, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2009
Red Wing 2004
Am I blue?, F

 

 
Amor, Bb 080901/081230 Jazz Pirates 2009
Angelina, Eb 081016
Any time, F

060125/090518 

Jazz Pirates 2009
A perfect day, Bb

(rev. 090108) 

Congo Square 2002
Apple blossom time, Bb 100501
At the cross, F

 

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

 

Jazz Pirates 2010
Red Wing 2008
Ban moin en ti bo, F 090426 Jazz Pirates 2009
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

 

 
Best things in life are free, C

 

 
Big butter and egg man, F 090521 Georgia Ramblers 1968
Black and blue, Gm

 


Black but sweet, Fm 090906
Blanche touquatoux, F 100424
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 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
Buddy Bolden's blues, F 100312
Burgundy street blues, C

 


Button up your overcoat, F 090328 Jazz Pirates 2009
By the river of the roses, Bb

 

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

 

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

 

Jazz Pirates 2010
C'est si bon, Bb

070625

 
Charming Trinidad, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2009
Cielito lindo, Bb 090723
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

 

 
Coquette, Eb

 


Corrine Corrina, Bb

070408 (2004)

 
Cradle song, F

061205

New Orleans United 2001
Red Wing 1997
Crazy, Eb

 

 
Creole belles, F 100321 Jazz Pirates 2010
Creole jazz, Bb 091203
Creole song, Eb

 

Jazz Pirates 2010
Cryin' time, F

 

 
Curse of an aching heart, Bb

 

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

 

 
Danny boy, F

 

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

061204

Red Wing 2006
Corona Jazzband 1998
Dear old Southland, F

 

 
Deep purple, F

 

 
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

 

 
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 sweetheart me, F

 

Jazz Pirates 2009
Down by the old mill stream, F

 

 
Down home rag, Bb

 

 
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans, Bb

071011

 
Dream, Bb 090720 Jazz Pirates 2009
Drum boogie, Eb

 

 
Där näckrosen blommar, Bb

 

Red Wing 2008
Eh, la bas!, F

 

 
Elephant stomp, Bb

 

Jazz Pirates 2009
End of the world, Eb

 

 
Enjoy yourself, Bb

 

 
Everywhere you go, Eb

 

 
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 2009
Fidgety feet, Bb/Eb/Ab

 

 
Float me down the river, Ab

 

Jazz Pirates 2006
For all we know, F

 

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

 

 
For once in my life, Bb, NO-style

 

 
Four or five times, Eb 100213
Gatemouth, Eb

 

 
Gentle Annie, F

 

Red Wing 2006
Georgia on my mind, F

 

 
Get happy, F 100817 Jazz Pirates 2010
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

 


Graveyard blues, C

061101

Red Wing 1997
Gypsy love song, Bb

 

Red Wing 1996
Harbor lights, Eb 080919 Jazz Pirates 2008
Hard times, Eb 090831 Jazz Pirates 2009
Heartaches, F 090314 Jazz Pirates 2009
Here comes the hot tamale man, Eb

071129

 
He touched me, F

 

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

 

 
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)

 

 
How can you face me?, Bb 100805
Holding my Saviour's hand, Bb

 

 
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 2005
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

 

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

 

 
I like bananas because they have no bones, F

 

 
I'll always be in love with you, Bb 100524 Jazz Pirates 2010
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

 

 
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 confessin' that I love you, Bb

 

 
I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter, Bb

 

 
I'm living good, F

 

 
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 must have that man, Eb
I must have that man, C
090123
090103

In a little Spanish town, Bb

 


In a shanty in old shanty town, F

 

 
Indian love call, Eb 100201 Red Wing 1998
Indian summer, F 091226 Jazz Pirates 2010
In my heart there is a yearning, F

080109

 
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 2009
I thank you, mister Moon, F

 

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

 

 
It's nobody's fault but mine, Bb

 

 
I used to love you, Ab 100621 Jazz Pirates 2010
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
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free, F

 

 
I wonder who's kissing her now, F

 

 
Tunes J - Y
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