Thursday, January 4, 2018

ED PALERMO BIG BAND UPDATE

recent messages / setlists by Ed Palermo :

Thx to everybody who came to Falcon last night to help ring in the new year! 2018 is going to be amazing if last night's celebration is any indication.

We did a parody of the Oscars. The set list won't include the "Play off" tunes, but I will briefly describe the final "award" towards the end.

December 31, 2017-Falcon

early show

EDDY ARE YOU KIDDING/GONE WITH THE WIND
PEACHES EN REGALIA (Zappa)
INFLUENZA (Rundgren)
BIG SWIFTY#1 (Zappa)
DOWN, BOY! (Palermo)
BIG SWIFTY#2 (Zappa)
UNCLE BERNIE’S FARM (nap sings last line)

CAN’T AFFORD NO SHOES (Zappa)
BAREFOOTIN’
LET’S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK (Zappa)
UNCLE REMUS (Zappa)
MONTANA (Zappa)
EMPEROR OF THE HIGHWAY (Rundgren)

I WOULD DIE FOR YOU/G SPOT TORNADO (Prince/Zappa)

late show

LOVE SHACK INTRO (B52s)
ECHIDNA (Zappa)
“Tin Roof….Rusted”
ECHIDNA coda (Zappa)
MOGGIO/NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN (Zappa/Moody Blues)
LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND (Yes)

FLORENTINE POGEN (Zappa)
VILLAGE OF THE SUN (Zappa)

The award for best big band was between my band and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. After it was announced that my band won, the band launched into:
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS (Queen)
But Bruce McDaniel stopped the band to tell the audience there was a mistake and that the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra was the actual winner, the band played:
I’M A LOSER (Beatles)

(midnight)
AULD LANG SYNE
WE ARE NOT ALONE (Zappa)
STRICTLY GENTEEL#2 (Zappa)

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Good morning! Thx to everybody who came to my sold out show last night at the Falcon! Super thanks to my incredible band and guest tap dancer Nicki Denner and guest vocalist Nina Hennessey. The Falcon audience is a gift from God to me and my band. Words don't do justice to how great they are.
As always, the set list from last night:
December 23, 2017-Falcon

EARLY SHOW

VIENNESE MUSICAL CLOCK (Kodaly)
NO PLACE LIKE MARLBORO (Sondheim)
WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME (McCartney)
GOD REST YE, MERRY GENTLEMEN (trad)
CHRISTMAS MEDLEY
Be-Bop/Things to Come (Dizzy Gillespie)
Serenade to a Cuckoo (Roland Kirk/Jethro Tull)
My Favorite Things/We Three Kings (trad)
AIREGIN (Sonny Rollins)
WHAT CHILD IS THIS/20 SMALL CIGARS (trad/Zappa)
GRAND CENTRAL (John Coltrane)
BIG SWIFTY#1 (Zappa)
SOFA/AWAY IN A MANGER (Zappa/trad)
BIG SWIFTY#2 (Zappa)

TAKE A PEBBLE (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
UNCLE BERNIE’S FARM (Zappa)

SHOSTAKOVICH (snippet from his 5th Symphony)
AMERICA/AMERICAN IDIOT (Bernstein, Green Day)
RUSSIAN DANCE from THE NUTCRACKER
G SPOT TORNADO (Zappa)

LATE SHOW

FLUTE MOVEMENT from THE NUTCRACKER
LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND (Yes)
JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE (Traffic)
50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER (Paul Simon)
SCARBOROUGH FAIR (Paul Simon)
NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN INTRO (Moody Blues)
INFLUENZA (Todd Rundgren)
LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF (Cole Porter)
LET’S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK (Zappa)
VILLAGE OF THE SUN (Zappa)

TEA FOR TWO #1
ECHIDNA'S ARF (Zappa)
TEA FOR TWO #2

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE ZMAS-classic Clement Moore poem set to the music of Zappa’s EVIL PRINCE

encore:

SILENT NIGHT/TWIN PEAKS THEME
NUTROCKER (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)

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Okay, as always, I post the set list from the previous night's show:
IRIDUM-SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2017 CHRISTMAS SHOW

EARLY SHOW

THE NUTCRACKER FLUTE MOVEMENT (Tchaikovsky)
WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME (McCartney)
GOD REST YE, MERRY GENTLEMEN (trad)
CHRISTMAS MEDLEY
Be-Bop/Things to Come (Dizzy Gillespie)
Serenade to a Cuckoo (Roland Kirk/Jethro Tull)
My Favorite Things/We Three Kings (trad)
AIREGIN (Sonny Rollins)
WHAT CHILD IS THIS/20 SMALL CIGARS (trad/Zappa)
GRAND CENTRAL (John Coltrane)
BIG SWIFTY#1 (Zappa)
SOFA/AWAY IN A MANGER (Zappa/trad)
BIG SWIFTY#2 (Zappa)
G SPOT TORNADO (Zappa)

TAKE A PEBBLE (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
UNCLE BERNIE’S FARM including:
1. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson)
2. Brown Shoes Don't Make It (Zappa)
3. It's not Unusual (Tom Jones)

LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF intro (Cole Porter)
LET’S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK (Zappa)
VILLAGE OF THE SUN (Zappa)

LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND (Yes)
JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE (Traffic)
50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER (Paul Simon)
NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN intro (Moody Blues)
ECHIDNA’S ARF (Zappa)
ALEX TREPAK (Tchaikovsky)

SILENT NIGHT/TWIN PEAKS THEME (trad/Twin Peaks)

encore:

EVIL PRINCE/TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE XMAS (Zappa)
NUTROCKER (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)

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