Vocal Numbers
Accentuate the Positive - Bing Crosby
Ain't Misbehavin' - Fats Waller
Ain't Nobody Here but us Chickens - Louis Jordan
Airmail Special - Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton
All of Me - Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra
Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
Big Noise from Winnetka - Bob Crosby
Blue Moon - Ella Fitzgerald, etc
Boogie Woogie Country Girl - Big Joe Turner
Buona Serra - Louis Prima, Dean Martin
Caldonia - Louis Jordan, Woody Herman
Chicken & the Hawk - Big Joe Turner
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan
Danny Boy - Various
Fever - Peggy Lee, Elvis Presley
Flyin' Home - Lionel Hampton
Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra
Giddy Up a Ding Dong - Freddie Bell
Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
I can't Give you Anything but Love - Louis Armstrong
I'm Confessin' - Louis Armstrong
In the Mood - Glenn Miller
It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that
Swing - Duke Ellington
It had to be You - Harry Connick Jnr
Jam Up - Tommy Ridgely
Jump, Jive and Wail - Louis Prima
Lazy River - Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin
Lester Leaps In - Count Basie
Love Me or Leave Me - Nina Simone, Sammy Davis Jnr.
Mack the Knife - Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin
Mambo Italiano - Dean Martin
Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway
My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone
Oh, Babe! - Louis Prima, Wynonie Harris
Oh, Marie! - Louis Prima
Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland
Pennies From Heaven - Bing Crosby, Louis Prima
Rag Mop - Lionel Hampton
Right now, Right now! - Alan Freed Orchestra
Rock & Roll Boogie - Alan Freed Orchestra
Route 66 - Nat King Cole
Saint Louis Blues - Louis Armstrong
Shake, Rattle & Roll - Big Joe Turner
Sheik of Araby - Louis Prima
Sing, Sing, Sing - Benny Goodman, Louis Prima
Singing in the Rain - Gene Kelly
Slow Boat to China - Bette Middler
Sweet Georgia Brown - The Harlem
Globetrotters
Summertime - Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald
Sunny Side of the Street - Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra
Sway - Dean Martin
Swingin' All Day - Saunders King, Louis Armstrong
Tiger Rag - Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima
Volare - Dean Martin
We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn
Well Alright, Okay, You Win - Joe Williams & Count Basie
When the Saints Go Marching In - Louis Armstrong
When You're Smilin' - Louis Armstrong
White Cliffs of Dover - Vera Lynn
Original songs regularly performed include:
Aces Swing
Clear Body, Clear Mind
Fish Fingers (the Professor's Boogie)
Imagination
I’ve Got Affinity For You
Jive Ace Boogie Woogie
Jive, Jive, Jive Aces
Long Distance Love Affair
Once More
Only Mugs take Drugs
Planet Jive
Play On
Second Chance to Fly
Spectator
Start, Change & Stop
Three Cats Called Louis
Christmas Songs Include:
I've got my love to keep me Warm
Jingle Bells
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
Santa Claus is Back in Town
White Christmas
White Hot Christmas
Winter Wonderland
General Information:
Name: Jive Aces
Location: West Sussex
Main Category: Rock n Roll & Jive Bands
Other Categories: Bands, Live Music, Party Bands, Swing & Rat Pack Bands, Wedding Bands, Wedding Music
Lineups/Options:
6 Piece Band (default): Lead vocals/trumpet/ukulele, tenor sax/clarinet/fiddle, trombone/percussion/washboard, piano, double bass, drums
Timings:
Standard Set Times: 1 x 60
or 2 x 45
Space Required (w x d):
6 Piece Band (default): 7.0m x 4.0m
Sound & Lighting:
Stage Lighting: No
Dance Floor Lighting: No
Free use of PA via iPod: No
DJ included: No
Other Requirements
Hospitality/Artist Rider: 1.Hot evening meal for 10
2.(Unless local)hotel for 10 1 double; 3 twin rooms; 2 single w breakfast
3. Soft drinks (tea, filter coffee, orange juice, bottled water) in dressing room.
4. Lockable dressing room. Heated with clothes rail 10 seats, tables and plug sockets
Technical Requirement: Jive Aces technical specifications
Sound Equipment:
2 straight mic stands
3 short boom mic stands
5 full height boom mic stands
3 small boom stand (for snare, Hi Hat etc)
1 bass drum mic stand
1 Shure SM58 Beta/ SM87 Beta wireless mic with receiver & spare batteries
4 Shure SM58 Beta mics
2 Shure SM57 mics
5 Shure SM81 condenser mic (for Over Head, Hi Hat...)
2 Sennheiser clip drums mic (if not available 2 SM57, with stand)
1 Shure Beta SM52 mic
2 Direct Boxes
All necessary XLR's, Jacks, Patching cords, insert cables and adaptors
Jack cables 2m (piano). Also need an XLR split cable to send lead vocal into 2 channels, one for FOH one for his monitor.
All Power cables needed, multi plug, extension cord for the piano...
All necessary speaker cables
Multicore cable 24/8, channels, 30 meters
Stage box 24/8 plus 8 channel stage box for the drums
Front-of-house PA system using:
-subs & hi/mid speakers with power amplifiers, with sufficient power and quality to suit size of venue and coverage adequate for the number of people attending.
6 Monitor speakers with adequate amps or powered.
4 Stereo Graphic Equalizers
-1 stereo for FOH
-6 mono for Monitors
Set of compressors
Reverb unit
Mixing board, Soundcraft or above quality with with 24 mic channels and at least 6 aux.
CD Player (for music between sets etc)
Drums are back stage, centre ideally on a riser.
Looking at stage from audience position, going from left to right at front of stage, we have:
Pno,bass,l.vox,bone,sax.
Typical channel list:
1 kick
2 sn
3 hat
4 rack
5 floor
6 OH
7 Bass
8 pno
9 pno
10 pno vox (boom stand)
11 lead vox (str stand, round base and use a long cable for mobility)
12 bone vox (str stand)
13 sax vox (str stand)
14 wireless vox
15 lead vox monitor split
17 bone wireless
18 sax wireless
19 Bongos
Monitors from L to R (looking at stage from audience viewpoint)
Piano wedge has piano, piano vox. At a lower level kick, snare, sax, bone, bass, lead vox
Bass wedge has Bass. At lower level, Kick, snare, sax, bone, piano.
Lead vox monitor should be a pair. In which he has just the vocal. We need this monitor tuned up so it's extra loud yet sounding nice and full range.
Normally we don't require anything else in this monitor except when the stages are large then a bit of kick, snare and piano can be added.
Bone has bone and bone vox. A little kick, snare and piano.
Sax has sax and sax vox. A little kick, snare and piano.
(At the back)
Drums wedge has Kick, snare, lead vox, piano, bass, sax, bone.
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