
Grand Marquis
Artist Information
Over the past 12 years the Grand Marquis have logged more than 1400 performances, as far-flung as Seattle to South Beach Miami, but often in the midwest where they call Kansas City home.
The Grand Marquis’ music can bring to mind a variety of settings and places as well: Prohibition-era KC, the streets of New Orleans, 1950’s Memphis and even 1930’s Paris. But their sound remains grounded in a roots influence that keeps inspiring the Grand Marquis to create, innovate and build off a solid foundation of American music. Theirs is a style that defies the limitations of category, whether jazz, blues or swing, yet finds favor with a wide audience culturally, demographically and inter-generationally.
Their fifth and latest recording “Hold On To Me” follows almost three years behind their last, “One More Day.” In that time we can hear the band continue to mature and broaden their focus a bit, while staying right in their wheelhouse: swinging, bluesy ‘party’ jazz. Their original material (such as Night is For Lovers) stands solidly besides jazz classics (Exactly Like You) and forgotten gems (The World Is Waiting For the Sunrise). Sultry songs (Sway) bump into low down blues (St James Infirmary Blues) and Dixieland stomps (Milenberg Joys). This is definitely a recording to hold on to for years to come.
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Song List
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time*
Ain’t No Good To Me*
After You’ve Gone
All Blues
Bad Dream Blues*
Ballcrusher*
Black & Tan Fantasy
Blue Train
Call the Police
Careless Love
Cocaine Habit Blues
Cointreau’s Raid*
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Daisies
Dark Eyes
Dinah
Easy To Be The Devil*
Evenin’
Exactly Like You
Fight In Every Bottle*
Good Rockin’ Tonight
Hang the Judge*
Harlem Nocturne
Hold On To Me*
I’m A Wine Drinker
I’se a Muggin’
If I Can Help Somebody
If You’se a Viper
In a Sentimental Mood
Interplay
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?
Juba and a O’ Brown Squaw
Jump Back, Honey
The Jungle*
Keep Your Hand on the Plow
Kiss of Fire
Kissing A Bottle*
Lester Leaps In
Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Milenberg Joys
Minnie the Moocher
Minor Swing
The Mooche
Mr. Williams*
Mystery Train
Night Is For Lovers*
No More Worries*
One More Day
Ool-Ya-Koo
Paseo Street Strut*
Piney Brown Blues
Safronia B
Sittin’ On Top Of The World
Skylark
Snow*
So Far Away*
The Spider & the Fly
St. James Infirmary Blues
St. Louis Blues
Still Blue Water
Summertime
Sway
Telephone Call from Istanbul
Tell It To Me
That’s My Desire
Tiger Man
Topsy
When the Saints Go Marching In
The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To
You’re Still My Baby*