CAPRICIOUS ACCORDION REPERTOIRE Highlights:
Some of these tunes can be heard on the Something for Everyone CD on the CD page.
- Traditional Russian/Gypsy classics like Ochi Cherniye (Dark Eyes) and the selections from the Hungarian Czardas family as well as some from the musical, Fiddler on the Roof - complete with the sound of gypsy violin.
- Viennese Waltzes (The complete Blue Danube along with others you'll recognize, featuring the full timbre of a Viennese orchestra.)
- Novelty tunes, such as the new Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega and Train Ride: Joe has become known for this collage of train songs with a blue-grass feel and simulated train effects following a dueling banjos style Warm-Up … accordion aficionados watch for some fancy "left-handy work".
- 1940s Big Band with In the Mood.
- Latin: Tito Puente's Oye Como Va as played by Santana, and Latin dance standards - familiar Tangos … Brazil Samba (with lots of brass), and Patricia from Perez Prado in the 1950s.
- French: Standards like La Vien Rose and Charade as well as French musette style with Comet' Valse.
- Traditional Euro-ethnic selections from Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Russia, Croatia, and more.
- Selected Classical Pieces, including Mozart's Minuet and Bizet's Habanera and Monti's Czardasz.
- Accordion Classics such as Jolly Caballero (Paso Doble) by P. Frosini and Tico Tico (Samba).
- Like Jazz? - How about Dave Brubeck/Paul Desmond's Take Five! … this is another first on accordion.
- Standards, e.g. Sixteen Tons (Remember Tennessee Ernie Ford?), It Had to be You, Blue Moon and more.
- Country, Tex Mex and Cajun.
