Request: Recommend me tunes for my band

Songs with trios playing:
"Red Clay" - Freddie Hubbard
"Chameleon" - Herbie Hancock
"Cantaloupe Island" - Herbie Hancock

 

Watermelon man.

 

Your guitarist(?) has his inner Grant Green going?

Anyway:
Ramsey Lewis, The In Crowd
Horace Silver, Song For My Father
Jr. Walker, Way Back Home
More Than Yesterday, covered by Charles Earland
Joe Sample, Carmel

 

Eddie Harris and Les McCaann "compared to what"

 

Grover Washington Jr, Mr Magic

 

The Chicken
Sissy Strut, or anything by the Meters.
Back At the Chicken Shack, Jimmy Smith
Sukie Sukie, Grant Green
Chitlins Con Carne, Kenny Burrell
The Jody Grind, Horace Silver
Tough Talk, The Jazz Crusaders

All the songs mentioned in this thread are in the vibe of my own trio.

 

Mercy, mercy, mercy

 

Comin' Home Baby, Herbie Mann among others

I remember Jeff Golub made a pass at the Ohio Players', Skin Tight

 

How about Arctic Monkeys - No.1 party anthem I think the instrumental of this song is really great

 

Damn...I did most of these tunes in my last band (with a sax, no keys).
We also did "Boozer" from the Scofield & MM&W album...the outro morphed into "Milestones", IIRC.
We also did the Eddie Harris tune, "Freedom Jazz Dance"...it has a cool bass ostinato in Bb. The solo section veered of into "The Chicken"-ville (a nod to Jaco, if you will).
"Cissy Strut"....yeah(yawn). Scofield does something cool with his cover. He modulates up a 1/2 step for each bar after the main figure...or sumthin like that. Anyway, The Meters have plenty of similar grooves that are not as played out.
"Chameleon", "Mercy-Mercy-Mercy", "All Blues"...played out? I know that's what we heard back in 2008.

 

And by the way, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy plays great on harmonica too! No, really!

Move On Up, Curtis Mayfield

The Procrastinator, Lee Morgan

Low Rider, War

Song for My Father, Horace Silver

Raincheck, Billy Strayhorn

Bizarre Love Triangle, New Order

Wade in the Water, Brother Jack McDuff

Work Song, Cannonball Adderley Quintet

'Nuff outa me...

 

Sunflower
Mr. PC
Charlie Hunter's version of Come as you are
Aja
Sissy strut
Moondance
Night lights (gerry mulligan and bob brookmeyer)

 

Herbie Hancock is good for funky jazz tunes that are easy to start playing: Watermelon Man, Cantaloupe Island, Chameleon, Maiden Voyage.

Some Latin/bossa tunes are worth having in your set list. Blue Bossa, Song For My Father, Meditation, Invitation, Girl From Ipanema, etc. standards like Fly Me To The Moon sound good in a bossa style.

Miles Davis provides plenty of good material for new bands. So What, Tune Up, Four, Freddie Freeloader, Blue In Green, All Blues, Milestones, for example.

Charlie Parker for some faster swing: Nows The Time, Billie's Bounce, Scrapple From The Apple, Anthropology, Yardbird Suite.

Then there's a heap of 'standard' standards like Stella By Starlight, Autumn Leaves, Satin Doll, My Funny Valentine, Take The A Train, All The Things You Are, Blue Moon and too many to list. Google 'Great American Songbook' and jump in.