JOHN WINN specializes in Swing and Standard Jazz styles along with
healthy doses of Jump Blues, Funk, Pop, Rock and Soul numbers as well.
His ensemble consists of a full rhythm section including bass, drums, piano or
guitar. John Winn is featured as the vocalist and saxophonist and the band may
be augmented with the addition of another chord instrument or trumpet.
John has been performing in the professional arena since age 17 and
has been featured in such diverse settings as the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Youngsang University in Busan, outh
Korea, the Sacramento Jazz Festival, and the Vladivostok (Russia) International
Jazz Festival.
John has performed literally hundreds of different songs over the years. What follows is a sampling of some of the most requested songs (and artists) grouped by performer, songwriter, or style for ease in finding your favorites. If you don’t see the one you’re looking for, please ask because there many more where these came from!
Sample Song List:
JAZZ SINGERS AND OTHER PERFORMERS |
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| Frank Sinatra- | Nat “King” Cole- | |||
| Fly Me To the Moon | Unforgettable | |||
| I’ve Got You Under My Skin | Route 66 | |||
| Night and Day | Joe Williams with Count Basie - | |||
| The Lady Is A Tramp | Ev’ry Day I Have the Blues | |||
| The Way You Look Tonight | Teach Me Tonight | |||
| New York, New York | Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You | |||
| Harry Connick, Jr. - | Ray Charles - | |||
| It Had To Be You | Georgia On My Mind | |||
| Our Love Is Here To Stay | It Should’a Been Me | |||
| I Could Write A Book | What’d I Say? | |||
| Tony Bennett- | Makin’ Whoopee | |||
| I Left My Heart In San Francisco | I Got News For You | |||
| Just In Time | Diana Krall- | |||
| Michael Buble- | The Look Of Love | |||
| I’ve Got You Under My Skin | Straighten Up And Fly Rt. | |||
| I’ve Got The World On A String | Quiet Nights | |||
| How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You | ‘S Wonderful | |||
| Fever | Stan Getz/ Antonio Carlos Jobim- | |||
| Chet Baker- | The Girl From Ipanema | |||
| Just Friends | Desafinado | |||
| My Funny Valentine | Bobby Darin - | |||
| Louis Armstrong/ Ella Fitzgerald- | Beyond The Sea | |||
| Mack the Knife | Cannonball Adderly - | |||
| All Of Me | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy | |||
| Summertime | Work Song | |||
| What A Wonderful World | Peggy Lee - | |||
| Hello Dolly! | Fever | |||
| Ain’t Misbehavin’ | Miles Davis - | |||
| Billie Holiday – | All Blues | |||
| Fine And Mellow | So What | |||
| God Bless The Child | Someday My Prince Will Come | |||
| Don’t Explain | Dave Brubeck - | |||
| Stormy Weather | Take Five | |||
| Mel Torme - | Blue Rondo Ala Turk | |||
| Autumn Leaves | ||||
| Moonlight In Vermont | ||||
| The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting) | ||||
BIG BAND SWING |
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| Glenn Miller – | Tommy Dorsey - | |||
| In the Mood | I’m Getting Sentimental | |||
| Moonlight Serenade | Opus One | |||
| String Of Pearls | Here’s That Rainy Day | |||
| Duke Ellington- | Woody Herman - | |||
| Take the ‘A’ Train | Four Brothers | |||
| Satin Doll | Blues In The Night | |||
| Don’t Get Around Much Anymore | Woodchopper’s Ball | |||
| Caravan | Louis Jordan - | |||
| Perdido | Caldonia | |||
| Benny Goodman- | Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie | |||
| Stompin’ At The Savoy | Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t | |||
| Sing, Sing, Sing | Artie Shaw - | |||
| Count Basie - | Begin The Beguine | |||
| One O’Clock Jump | Moonglow | |||
| April In Paris | Star Dust | |||
| Shiny Stockings | Lionel Hampton - | |||
| Jumpin’ At The Woodside | Flyin’ Home | |||
CLASSIC LOVE SONGS |
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| As Time Goes By | When I Fall In Love | |||
| All The Way | Make Someone Happy | |||
| My Funny Valentine Misty | East Of The Sun | |||
| Moon River | Unforgettable | |||
| What’s New? | Body And Soul | |||
| Tenderly | ||||
BRAZILIAN, LATIN, and CALYPSO |
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| The Girl From Ipanema | One Note Samba | |||
| Meditation | Desafinado | |||
| St. Thomas | How Insensitive | |||
| Agua de Beber | A Night In Tunisia | |||
| Caravan | Green Dolphin Street | |||
| Song For My Father | Samba De Orpheo | |||
| Blue Bossa | Manha De Carnaval | |||
| Brazil | Aguas De Marco | |||
THE GREAT SONGWRITERS |
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| Irving Berlin | Cole Porter | |||
| Jerome Kern | George Gershwin | |||
| Harold Arlen | Johnny Mandel | |||
| Henry Mancini | Rodgers & Hart/Hammerstein | |||
| Hoagy Carmichael | Fats Waller | |||
| Jule Styne | Lerner & Lowe | |||
| Frank Loesser | Gus Kahn | |||
| Antonio Carlos Jobim | Jimmy Van Heusen | |||
| Lennon & McCartney | Billy Strayhorn | |||
| Dave Frishberg | Ann Ronell | |||
OTHER CONTEMPORARY AND TRADITIONAL JAZZ ARTISTS |
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| Grover Washington, Jr. | Herbie Hancock | |||
| Pat Metheny | Dizzy Gillespie | |||
| Charlie Parker | John Coltrane | |||
| Weather Report | Kenny Garrett | |||
| The Bad Plus | Jane Monheit | |||
| Marcus Miller | David Sanborn | |||
| Horace Silver | Thelonious Monk | |||
| Django Reinhardt | Gerry Mulligan | |||
| Bill Evans | Wes Montgomery | |||
| Chick Corea | Brecker Brothers | |||
| John Scofield | Quincy Jones | |||
| Charles Mingus | Art Blakey | |||
| Joshua Redman | Mike Stern | |||
| Al Jarreau | ||||
| POP, ROCK, SOUL & FUNK - This is a list of songs we typically play. Others may be performed by request. | ||||
| Stevie Wonder - | The Temptaions - | |||
| I Wish | My Girl | |||
| Superstition | Ain’t Too Proud To Beg | |||
| Isn’t She Lovely? | Marvin Gaye - | |||
| For Once In My Life | I Heard It Through The Grapevine | |||
| You Are The Sunshine Of My Life | How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) | |||
| Al Green - | What’s Going On? | |||
| Let’s Stay Together | James Brown - | |||
| Sam and Dave - | I Got You (I Feel Good) | |||
| Hold On I’m Coming | Sex Machine | |||
| Otis Redding - | Ray Charles - | |||
| Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay | Hallelujah, I Love Her So | |||
| (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction | It Should’a Been Me | |||
| Steve Winwood - | I Got A Woman | |||
| Gimme Some Lovin’ | Georgia On My Mind | |||
| Van Morrison - | Beatles - | |||
| Moondance | Here Comes the Sun | |||
| Into the Mystic | Something | |||
| Brown-Eyed Girl | Michelle | |||
| Tupelo Honey | Yesterday | |||
| Jimi Hendrix - | All You Need Is Love | |||
| Fire | Get Back | |||
| Little Wing | Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da | |||
| Sting/The Police - | Twist And Shout | |||
| Message In A Bottle | And I Love Her | |||
| Roxanne | In My Life | |||
| So Lonely | I Saw Her Standing There | |||
| Englishman In New York | Rolling Stones - | |||
| Fields Of Gold | Miss You | |||
| If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free | Satisfaction (a la Otis Redding) | |||
| Ben Folds - | Elton John - | |||
| The Luckiest | Bennie and the Jets | |||
| Billy Joel - | Your Song | |||
| Just The Way You Are | Elvis Presley - | |||
| She’s Got A Way | Jailhouse Rock | |||
| New York State Of Mind | I Can’t Help Falling In Love (With You) | |||
| Chuck Berry - | C.C.R. - | |||
| Johnny B. Goode | Down On The Corner | |||
| U2 | Proud Mary | |||
| Desire | CAKE (G. Gaynor)- | |||
| James Taylor - | I Will Survive | |||
| You’ve Got A Friend | Norah Jones - | |||
| How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) | Don’t Know Why | |||
| Carolina In My Mind | Peter Gabriel - | |||
| Paul Simon - | In Your Eyes | |||
| Late In The Evening | Steely Dan - | |||
| 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover | Reelin’ In The Years | |||
| Eric Clapton - | Radiohead - | |||
| Wonderful Tonight | Knives Out | |||
| Joe Cocker - | Ray LaMontagne - | |||
| You Are So Beautiful To Me | You Are The Best Thing | |||
| Ben E. King - | Coldplay - | |||
| Stand By Me | Don’t Panic | |||
| Prince - | Jack Johnson - | |||
| Raspberry Beret | Better Together | |||
| The Cure – | ||||
| Just Like Heaven | ||||
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