Songs

Take3’s repertoire is mainly drawn from the following areas:

Latin American

Three stringed instruments – with strings either hit by hammers, plucked by fingers or struck with a plectrum – striving to reproduce an authentic bossa nova clave. Interesting! It’s a challenge we enjoy. Songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim figure prominently in Take3’s Latin American repertoire. A selection of our Latin American songs:

American Songbook

Many songs from America’s musical films of the 1930s, 40’s and 50s have now become jazz classics and choice standards. Beautiful, clever and catchy songs that reflect a golden era in American song writing. We play songs by Jerome Kern, Richard Rogers, Neil Hefti, Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington and Cole Porter as well as by Burt Bacharach, a modern-day master of the popular song form.

Download and listen to short and longer MP3s of the following songs:

Blues and Modal

America’s native musical and verse form is a distillate of field hollers, the spiritual, European harmony and African music introduced by slaves. A musical reflection of social experiences. We express the sentiment in modal tunes and blues by Miles Davis and Sam Jones, as well as in ballads such as Buddy Johnson’s ‘Save your love for me’, and Vernon Duke’s ‘Autumn in New York’.