GypsyJazzFilter

Anything by the Gypsy Kings of course!!

We used a gypsy jazz playlist for our wedding too! Stephane Grappelli goes hand in hand with Django. Also, you can sample a bunch of stuff yourself by hitting youtube and searching for and listening to various "hot clubs" playing the standards and newer stuff. Many big cities in the US and France have hot clubs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06QmL8g-MIA

I combed my iTunes playlist and found the following. What fun to have a Gypsy Jazz band play! Congratulations and best wishes! "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" - Pretty good old standard, wedding appropriate "Swing De Paris" "Desde Que Veniste" - Hot Club Sandwich (The title, I believe is "Since You Came". It's a beautiful slow song but the lyrics are in Spanish. I'd have someone translate them before using it at a wedding in case it's something like "Since You Came, I'm Miserable"!) "La Valse De L'Amoureaux - Hot Club Sandwich (may be too fast) "Eight, Nine, Ten" - Hot Club Sandwich (This might work for a Charleston that isn't too fast.) "Exactly Like You" - Another good old standard, wedding appropriate "Ain't Misbehavin'" - Another standard "Rose Room" - Django Reinhardt's version might be good for a Charleston "Mabel" - Django Reinhardt's version might be good for a Charleston "Out of Nowhere" - Very good old standard, very wedding appropriate "Begin The Beguine" - Standard, Not positive the http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/c/coleporter5950/beginthebeguine235309.html are wedding appropriate "Embraceable You" - A standard "Sunny Side of The Street" - A standard, should be pretty recognizable "It's Only A Paper Moon" - A standard, should be pretty recognizable, upbeat, good http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/It's-Only-A-Paper-Moon-lyrics-Nat-King-Cole/F9D87EECE8FCBC8D48256AF1000DD6F3 "What a Difference A Day Makes" - A standard, should be pretty recognizable, upbeat, good http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859262587/ "'Deed I Do - Good, fun standard "It Had To Be You" - A classic, great for a wedding "It Don't Mean A Thing" - Classic Gypsy jazz

I had a wedding band at my wedding. Though we gave them some suggestions, which they took, I made sure to let them choose a lot of what they thought would work best for different times of the night. And I distinctly recall how surprised I was that certain songs that they picked, whether more obscure or overplayed, really knocked everyone's socks off. So my advice is, give them some familiar songs, but give them the freedom to make professional choices about what tunes work best for the occasions you've described. Don't be afraid to describe what you want out of different times of the night. They are the pros at setting the mood and getting people dancing!

As someone who's played wedding gigs with all sorts of different groups: I actually think if you just gave them the description you gave us, they'd probably put together something perfect. Honestly, what you described is the kind of stuff that every band pulls out for weddings. That said, they also expect to get a few requests, two or three is fine, four's pushing it (unless you know that they have one of the tunes in their book and just want to make sure it gets played). Anyway, on to your question. I think pretty much everything already mentioned would work well in addition to those here are some tunes that I've done with a Hot Jazz combo at weddings (you don't mention if they have a singer, so I'll mark the instrumentals and the ones I think need the singer): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WfeyynnELQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErhA82cgl6E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9d9oz-SD8 (instrumental, this one does traditionally have feel changes, so depending on how they do it, it might not work for dancing, but I've heard it every tempo from blistering to the one I linked to) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0yc7SbLXC0 (although I think I'm the only one in the world that isn't sick of this. Bossa Novas in general can work really well with this kind of jazz, so any you like, probably will work well) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UkIN-chLy8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twO6bvnmIp0 (Personally, I don't like this one as much an instrumental, but other people disagree) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22By1mszNxE (This can actually work really well as a dance if they take it at a slower tempo than a lot of bands do) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCPSegyyzkA (Instrumental) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIrHaS3pvmU (needs a singer) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr-sQ4BEqRo (can go either way, but I like the lyrics) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoaJprTBYRc (instrumental) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwlRNpG2agA (I like the lyrics to this one too) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRYsSVttaSI (this one gets played at a variety of tempos too) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of5crQZKo3E (instrumental) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0feNVUwQA8U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwzmR2IHIgU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIeGrOo6JDk(instrumental) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSCaGOvbPL4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF3tDW0e6-0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88 (needs vocalist)

Fats Waller's "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHBSgRue-O8&feature=kp" would be awesome by a gypsy jazz band, and the older folks will love it. For modern, anything by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeVotchKa. Also consider the soundtrack to the film "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_and_Rita."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmOTGungnA&feature=kp, of course.

I totally agree but since they were kind enough to ask for suggestions I thought I'd listen around and give them a little sense of what we enjoy.

Have a look at http://www.israbox.com/1146314865-va-gypsy-swing-2008.html!