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Click here for a
musical selection
by James R. Newell |
Classic Jazz Standards
& Popular music
James R. Newell performs a wide variety of classic Jazz ballads, swing
and blues songs and dance music for easy listening, dinner and dance
functions. As a teenager he enjoyed the good fortune of working
with some of the greats of the blues. His experiences with Kansas
City Blues shouter 'Big' Joe Turner, stride pianist Lloyd Glenn, John
Lee Hooker, Jr. Wells and others has left a strong blues edge on
whatever style he is working in. James is available for
appearances as a solo guitarist-vocalist, with the Newell & Sorrells
Jazz
& Blues duo, or with a trio, quartet, or larger groups. Click
here for more about the Newell & Sorrells Jazz & Blues duo.
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Partial Songlist
Saturday Night Fish Fry -- Louis Jordan
Weeping Willow Blues -- Ma Rainey
Come Rain or Come Shine -- Billie Holiday
Is You Is or Is You Ain't my Baby -- Nat King Cole
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans -- Louis Armstrong
I Can't Give You Anything But Love -- Billie Holiday
I'm Just Foolin' Myself -- Billie Holiday
Lucky Old Sun -- Louis Armstrong
Georgia -- Hoagy Carmichael
Dream A Little Dream of Me -- Nat King Cole
Body & Soul -- Billie Holiday
Good Morning Heartache -- Billie Holiday
She's Funny That Way -- Billie Holiday
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me -- Duke Ellington
Key To the Highway -- Dina Washington
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-o-Dee -- Stick Magee
Everyday I have the Blues -- Count Basie
I'm Just A lucky So and So -- Duke Ellington
Cry Me A River -- Dina Washington
St Louis Blues -- Bessie Smith
Sunny Side of The Street -- Lionel Hampton
Shake Rattle & Roll -- 'Big' Joe Turner
I Can't Get Started -- Frank Sinatra
Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out -- Bessie Smith
Confessin' The Blues -- Jay Macshan
I'm Confessin' That I Love You -- Lionel Hampton
Greenbacks -- Ray Charles
Since I Fell For You -- Buddy Johnson
Fever -- Peggy Lee
Choo-Choo-Ch-Boogie -- Louis Jordan
You Go to My Head -- Billie Holiday
After You've Gone -- Bessie Smith
No Particular Place to Go -- Chuck Berry
Since I Met You Baby -- Ivory Joe Hunter
Route 66 -- Nat King Cole
Nice Work if You Can Get It -- Billie Holiday
Honey Hush -- 'Big' Joe Turner
Fool's Paradise -- Charles Brown
I Live The Life I Love -- Mose Allison
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