openmic

First Saturdays is a monthly Open Mic I've been hosting at The Brothers K in Evanston. The next one is on Saturday, September 6th. Sign up begins at 5:30pm and the performances are from 6:00 to 8:00pm. Nick Anaya & I generally kick off the evening with some jazz standards.

Songs Performed at First Saturdays
Here's a list (with informative links) of the jazz standards I've performed at the Open Mics (in addition to my originals)

August 2, 2008
Moonlight In Vermont - Karl Suessdorf
'Deed I Do - Walter Hirsch & Fred Rose

July 5, 2008
Stella By Starlight - Victor Young
They Can't Take That Away From Me - George and Ira Gershwin
My Romance - Richard Rodgers (lyrics by Lorenz Hart)
Ceora - Lee Morgan

June 7, 2008
Summertime - George Gershwin
'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk
Lullaby of Birdland - George Shearing
Sometime Ago - Sergio Mihanovich

May 3, 2008
Nick had the night off so I changed things up a bit and performed songs by Counting Crows, Cast, and The Bravery.

April 5, 2008
All The Things You Are - Jerome Kern

March 1, 2008
I Remember Clifford - Benny Golson
Devil May Care - Bob Dorough
Just Friends - John Klenner / Samuel M. Lewis

February 2, 2008
Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Duke Ellington
Work Song - Nathaniel Adderley
Let There Be Love
A Foggy Day - George Gershwin
Nuages (Clouds) - by Django Reinhardt

January 5, 2008
Alone Together - Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz
Autumn In New York - Vernon Duke
Straighten Up & Fly Right - Nat "King" Cole
Ring A Ding Ding - Jimmy Van Heusen

December 15, 2007
Bossa Antiqua - Paul Desmond
Scrapple from the Apple - Charlie Parker
What A Wonderful World - Bob Thiele and George David Weiss
Why Don't You Do Right - Kansas Joe McCoy
If You Can't Smile And Say Yes (Please Don't Cry And Say No) - Louis Jordan, Timmie Rogers

November 11, 2007
Sunny Side of the Street - Jimmy McHugh, with lyrics by Dorothy Fields.
Corcovado - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Blue Monk - Thelonius Monk