Let's Jam!
Jam with us in our annual All-Star Jam with Dave Robinson and his Conservatory Classic Jazz Band!
Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 2pm
Community Arts Center
Wallingford, PA
The Conservatory Classic Jazz Band, a top Washington, DC-based group, has played for Tri-State 
and regularly hosts Potomac River Jazz Club jam sessions.
Dave Robinson - leader, cornet, trumpet
Gary Gregg - reeds
Brian Priebe - trombone
Rick Rowe - guitar, banjo
Dan Hall - bass
Brian Alpert - drums, washboard
The Details
A jam tune selection list, including keys, is listed below. To keep things fresh, this year’s list does not include tunes that were played at 2023’s jam. Most of the list is drawn from Bob Rawlins’ The Real Dixieland Book (Hal Leonard) and page numbers are listed for those.
Select tunes that you know well. If a tune is not in The Real Dixieland Book and you need a lead sheet, email Dave at jazzteacher@wap.org and he will provide one. Copies of The Real Dixieland Book will be available on the bandstand for those who need to refer to it.
If you’d like to play, PLEASE PRE-REGISTER to be guaranteed a spot playing with this great band. You'll tell us your name, email, telephone, your instrument(s), and two selected tunes from the list that you’d like to play, plus two alternates.
PRE-REGISTRATION closes on June 2. The final tune selections and instrument assignments will be made ahead of time by Dave. The set list showing the tunes and assignments will be sent to all pre-registered participants by June 23.
- Musicians should bring their own instruments (piano and drums are provided)
- Pre-registered sit-ins should sign in at the door, and will be admitted free of charge. Free entry does not extend to family members and friends
- Dave will call up the sit-ins to play, per the distributed set list. Please be ready to take the stage and play when it is your turn, and leave the stage promptly at the end of your assigned tunes
- Walk-in jammers will also be admitted free of charge and will be invited to sit in if time allows
- Priority will be given to those who pre-registered
- If you have CDs of yourself that you’d like to sell, a designated table will be provided for that purpose.
We look forward to hearing from you!
- The Tri-State Jam Committee
Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home (F), chorus only—p37
Basin Street Blues (Bb)—p44
Black and Blue (C)—p54
Blue Turning Grey Over You (C), chorus only—p62
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me (Bb), chorus only, no patter—p64
Bourbon Street Parade (Ab)
Cakewalking Babies (Bb), verse and chorus—p74
Charleston (Bb)
‘Deed I Do (Eb), chorus only—p103
Doctor Jazz (Eb), chorus only—p112
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans (C), chorus only—p110
Everybody Loves My Baby (F), verse and chorus—p122
Hindustan (Bb), chorus only—p142
I Want a Big Butter and Egg Man (F)—p156
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (Bb)—p162
Indiana (F), chorus only—p172
Jazz Me Blues (Eb)—p184
Just a Closer Walk With Thee (Bb)—p191
Just a Little While to Stay Here (F)
Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now (C), chorus only—p194
Lazy River (F), chorus only—p195
Limehouse Blues (Ab), verse and chorus—p202
Lonesome Road (Eb)—p206
Love is Just Around the Corner (F)—p207
Margie (F)—p220
Nobody’s Sweetheart (F), chorus only—p246
Original Dixieland One-step (Bb/Eb/Ab)—p254
Rosetta (F), chorus only—p288
Royal Garden Blues (F/Bb)—p289
Smiles (Ab)—p309
Someday You’ll Be Sorry (Eb)—p314
Struttin’ With Some Barbecue (F)—p322
That’s a Plenty (Dm/F/Bb)—p327
Tin Roof Blues (Bb)—p335
Undecided (C), chorus only—p344
Wabash Blues (Eb)—p346Weary Blues (F/Bb)—p353
When You’re Smiling (Bb)—p361
Winin’ Boy Blues (Eb)
Yellow Dog Blues (Bb/Eb)—p374