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Repertoire & Resources - Vocal Jazz

Table 1. Suggested Vocal Jazz Repertoire List for High School and Collegiate Ensembles

Title Composer/Arranger Voicing Level

Swing/Standards/Ballads

You Make Me Feel So Young Gordon/Myron, arr. Jeremy Fox SATB with rhythm section 2/3

There Is No Greater Love Jones/Symes, arr. Jennifer Barnes SATB with rhythm section 4

There Is No Greater Love Jones/Symes, arr. Justin Binek SATB and SSAA with 4
rhythm section or big band

A Child Is Born Jones/Wilder, arr. Martez Rucker SATB a cappella 3

Lover Come Back To Me Romberg/Hammerstein, arr. Jennifer Barnes SATB with rhythm section 3

Come Back To Me Lane/Lerner, arr. Kerry Marsh SSATB with rhythm section 4

I’m Old Fashioned Kern/Mercer, arr. Matt Falker SAB with rhythm section 2

Tight Betty Carter, arr. Matt Falker SSATB with rhythm section 3/4

Nature Boy Eden Anbez, arr. Anders Edenroth SSATB a cappella 4/5

For All We Know Lewis/Coots, arr. Peter Eldridge and Darmon Meader SATB with piano only 3

I Remember You Scherzinger/Mercer, arr. Matt Falker SAB with rhythm section 2

Come Rain or Come Shine Mercer/Arlen, arr. Gene Puerling SATB with rhythm section 4

I’ll Be Seeing You Fain/Kahal, arr. Phil Mattson SATB a cappella

Latin (these are mostly Samba or Bossa nova)

Mad Heaven Peter Eldridge, arr. Rosana Eckert SSATB with rhythm section 3

Forever Blue Peter Eldridge, arr. Rosana Eckert SSATB with rhythm section 3/4

Bailando Greg Jasperse SATBB a cappella 3/4

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