We like to have a lot of fun at live shows and that includes playing some great classic tunes that get everyone moving - this ain't yo grandma's jazz!
Here are a list of tunes that Jimmy has covered recently and done his own version of. He's rearranged classic songs as well as arranged new exciting versions of classic cover tunes. Jimmy Bayard pays respect to songwriters and takes risks in arranging his own version of those songs. There is no doubt that Jimmy Bayard can appreciate classical jazz music and ideate ways to use those same tunes to appeal to a wider audience.
Originals by Jimmy Bayard:
Creole avec moi
Waitin for the phone
Dry martini
Late last night
Keep on askin
Solace
After the rain
The last one
Blues Tunes
Albert Collins - Dirty Dishes, If Trouble Was Money
Albert King - As the Years Go Passing By
Alien Love Child - Once a Part of Me
Buddy Guy - Leave My Girl Alone, Mary Had a Little Lamb
Freddie King - Big Legged Woman, Have You Ever Loved a Woman, I Got the Same Old Blues, Let the Good Times Roll, Only Getting Second Best, Pack It Up, Palace of the King, She's a Burglar, Sugar Sweet, Texas Flyer
Jimi Hendrix - Red House, Spanish Castle Magic
Johnny Winter - Illustrated Man
Jonny Lang - Lie to Me
Koko Taylor - Keep Your Booty Outta My Bed, Save Your Breath
Robert Cray - Back Door Slam, Forecast Calls for Pain, Phone Booth
Roy Buchanan - Nickel and a Nail, That Did It, Can't Judge a Book By Looking at the Cover
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Cold Shot, Couldn't Stand the Weather, Crossfire, Long Way From Home, Pride & Joy, Scuttle Buttin, Telephone Song, Texas Flood, Tightrope, Wall of Denial
Soul/R&B/Funk Tunes
Al Green - Love & Happiness, Let's Stay Together
Atlanta Rhythm Section - So Into You
Bill Withers - Use Me
Billy Ocean - Carribean Queen
Billy Preston - Round in Circles
Bobby Brown - My Prerogative
Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do for Love
Boz Skaggs - Lowdown
Chaka Khan - You've got the Love, Sweet Thing, Ain't Nobody
Dr. John - Right Place Wrong Time
Earth Wind & Fire - Can't Hide Love, Fall in Love with Me
Four Tops - I'll be There
George Benson - Give Me the Night, Love X Love, This Masquerade, Turn Your Love Around
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Hall & Oates - I Can't Go for That (No Can Do), Sara Smile
Isley Brothers - Between the Sheets, For the Love of You, It's Your Thing, Take Me to the Next Phase, Who's that Lady
Kool & the Gang - Get Down on It, Hollywood Swinging, Too Hot
Marvin Gaye - Got to Give it up, Inner City Blues, What's Going On
McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' us Now
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean, I Can't Help It, Rock With You
O'Jays - Backstabbers
Rick James - Give it to Me Baby, Mary Jane
Simply Red - Holding Back the Years
Sly and the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay
Spinners - I'll Be Around, It's a Shame
Steely Dan - Black Cow, Do it Again, Josie, Kid Charlemagne, Peg
Stevie Wonder - All I Do, Don't You Worry About a Thing, Superstition
Teddy Pendergrass - Love TKO
Tower of Power - You've Got to Funkifize
Whispers - And the Beat Goes On
