I specialize in playing early jazz, ragtime, stride, and selections from the Great American Songbook. If you find me out playing piano in Minneapolis, I’d be happy to try and play your song requests. You can also find my full repertoire below.
If you’re interested in seeing me play piano, check out my full calendar of upcoming piano performances in Minneapolis.
Blues • Ragtime • Stride
Eubie Blake | Zez Confrey | W. C. Handy | James P. Johnson | Scott Joplin | Joseph F. Lamb | Jelly Roll Morton | James Scott | Willie “The Lion” Smith | Thomas “Fats” Waller
Contemporary Ragtime
Composers of the Great American Songbook
Irving Berlin | Vernon Duke | Duke Ellington | George Gershwin | Jerome Kern | Cole Porter | Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart | Dana Suesse
States | Countries | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | Holiday Songs | Ernesto Lecuona
Musicals | 42nd Street | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | An American in Paris | Cabaret | Cats | The Fantasticks | The Girlfriend | Les Miserables | Meet Me in St. Louis | Music in the Air | Naughty Marietta | No, No, Nanette | Oklahoma! | On the Avenue | On Your Toes | Phantom of the Opera | Porgy and Bess | Shuffle Along | Tan Manhattan | Top Hat
Movies / Television | Disney | Over the Garden Wall
Elvis Presley | The Beatles | Elton John | Billy Joel | Leonard Cohen | Randy Newman | Daniel Rottenberg | Classical | Miscellaneous | Video Game Songs
Blues • Ragtime • Stride
EUBIE BLAKE
- The Baltimore Todolo
- Charleston Rag
- The Chevy Chase
- Loving You the Way I Do
- Memories of You
ZEZ CONFREY
- Kitten on the Keys
- Nickel in the Slot
- You Tell ‘Em Ivories
JAMES P. JOHNSON
- Blueberry Rhyme
- Carolina Shout
- The Charleston
- If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight)
- Sugar
W.C. HANDY
- Atlanta Blues
- Aunt Hagar’s Children’s Blues
- Beale Street Blues
- Hesitating Blue
- Joe Turner Blues
- Memphis Blues
- Ole Miss Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Yellow Dog Blues
SCOTT JOPLIN
- Bethena
- The Easy Winners
- Elite Syncopations
- The Entertainer
- Felicity Rag
- Fig Leaf Rag
- Heliotrope Bouquet
- Kismet Rag
- Magnetic Rag
- Maple Leaf Rag
- Peacherine Rag
- Pine Apple Rag
- Silver Swan Rag
- Solace
- Sunflower Slow Drag
- Swipesy Cake Walk
- Weeping Willow
JOSEPH F. LAMB
- American Beauty Rag
- Ragtime Nightingale
JELLY ROLL MORTON
- Kansas City Stomp
- New Orleans Blues
- Perfect Rag
JAMES SCOTT
- Calliope Rag
- Efficiency Rag
- Grace and Beauty
- Hilarity Rag
- Quality Rag
WILLIE “THE LION” SMITH
- Fingerbuster
- Relaxin’
- Rippling Waters
THOMAS “FATS” WALLER
- Alligator Crawl
- Ain’t Misbehavin’
- Cash for Your Trash
- Clothesline Ballet
- Handful of Keys
- Honeysuckle Rose
- How Can You Face Me Now
- I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby
- I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter
- I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling
- I Wish I Were Twins
- Keepin’ out of Mischief Now
- Minor Drag
- My Fate Is in Your Hands
- Numb Fumblin’
- Smashing Thirds
CONTEMPORARY RAGTIME
- Enchantment: A New Mexican Serenade
- Just Peachy
- One for the Road
- Razorblades
- Toronto Blues
JOHNNY MADDOX
- The Crazy Otto Medley
- Friday Night Stomp
- Meadow-lark
- Tango Fredette
Composers of the Great American Songbook
IRVING BERLIN
- Alexander’s Ragtime Band
- Always
- Change Partners
- Everybody’s Doin’ It Now
- I Love a Piano
- It’s a Lovely Day
- Play a Simple Melody
- Puttin’ on the Ritz
- Russian Lullaby
- The Song Is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On)
VERNON DUKE
- Autumn in New York
- I Can’t Get Started with You
- That Moment of Moments
DUKE ELLINGTON
- Caravan
- Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
- In a Sentimental Mood
- Mood Indigo
- Satin Doll
- Solitude
- Swampy River
- Take the “A” Train
GEORGE GERSHWIN
- A Foggy Day (In London Town)
- Clap Yo’ Hands
- Embraceable You
- Fascinating Rhythm
- Harlem Serenade
- I Got Rhythm
- I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise
- Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
- Love Is Here to Stay
- Oh, Lady Be Good!
- The Man I Love
- Shall We Dance
- Somebody Loves Me
- Someone to Watch over Me
- Swanee
- S’Wonderful
- They All Laughed
- They Can’t Take That Away from Me
Jerome Kern
- All the Things You Are
- I Won’t Dance
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- The Way You Look Tonight
ERNESTO LECUONA
- Andalucía
- Dust on the Moon
- Malagueña
- Siboney
COLE PORTER
- Anything Goes
- Begin the Beguine
- I Love Paris
- I’m Getting Myself Ready for You
- It’s De-Lovely
- Let’s Misbehave
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Night and Day
Richard Rogers &
Lorenz Hart
- Have You Met Ms. Jones?
- Lover
- Manhattan
- My Funny Valentine
- You Took Advantage of Me
See: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
See: Oklahoma!
*Rogers & Hammerstein
DANA SUESSE
- Have You Forgotten?
- Ho Hum!
- Jazz Nocturne
- Moon About Town
- My Silent Love
- The Night Is Young and You Are So Beautiful
- Whistling in the Dark
- You Ought to Be in Pictures
- You’re the Surest Cure for the Blues
STATES
- Alabama Jubilee
- Beautiful Ohio
- By the Waters of the Minnetonka
- California, Here I Come!
- Carolina in the Morning
- Colorado
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
- Georgia on My Mind
- Just Try and Picture Me Back Home in Tennessee
- Kentucky Waltz
- Mississippi Mud
- Missouri Waltz
- Moonlight in Vermont
- Moonlight on the Colorado
- My Old Kentucky Home Good-Night
- My Son in Tennessee
- Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)
- On, Wisconsin!
- The Pennsylvania Polka
- Roll Along, Kentucky Moon
- San Antonio Rose
- Sidewalks of New York
- Springtime in the Rockies
- Stars Fell on Alabama
- Tennessee Waltz
- Theme from San Francisco
- Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old ‘Tucky Home
- Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
- Yellow Rose of Texas
COUNTRIES
- Danny Boy
- Je Cherche après Titine
- (There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover
- Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That’s an Irish Lullaby)
- Under the Double Eagle
- When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
- When You and I Were Young, Maggie
1890
- Daisy Bell
- Echoes from the Snowball Club
- Georgia Camp Meeting
- Hello! My Baby
- Humoresque
- I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- Whistling Rufus
1900
- Ballin’ the Jack
- (Won’t You Come Home) Bill Bailey
- Black and White Rag
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon
- Calico Rag
- Carbarlick Acid Rag
- Corsica (That French Rag)
- Creole Belles
- Dill Pickles
- El Choclo
- The Glow-Worm
- The House of the Rising Sun
- Ida! Sweet as Apple Cider
- Frankie and Johnny
- Shine on, Harvest Moon
- St. Louis Rag
- Teddy Bears’ Picnic
- Under the Anheuser Bush
- What You Goin’ to Do When the Rent Comes ‘Round?
- Wild Cherries Rag
- X. L. Rag
1910
- Aba Daba Honeymoon
- At the Ball, That’s All
- Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
- Broncho Billy Rag
- Crazy Blues
- Dallas Blues
- The Darkey Todalo: A Raggedy Rag
- Darktown Strutters’ Ball
- Gee, But I Like Music with My Meals
- Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue)
- Honey Man (My Little Lovin’ Honey Man)
- I Ain’t Got Nobody
- I Wonder Where My Easy Rider’s Gone
- Ja-Da
- The Lily Rag
- Majestic Rag
- Melody in F Rag
- Nola
- The Original Texas Tommy Dance (King Chanticleer)
- Oh, You Beautiful Doll
- Paper Doll
- Peg o’ My Heart
- Pork and Beans
- The Queen Rag
- Ragtime Cowboy Joe
- Red Rose Rag
- Royal Garden Blues
- Russian Rag (Rachmaninoff Prelude)
- Snakey Blues
- Some of These Days
- Somebody Stole My Gal
- Texas Fox Trot
- That’s A Plenty
- Three O’Clock in the Morning
- Tiger Rag
- Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
- War Bride Blues
- You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It)
- 12th Street Rag
1920
- Ain’t Nobody’s Business
- Am I Blue?
- Angry
- Arkansas Blues
- At Sundown
- Avalon
- Basin Street Blues
- Beer Barrel Polka
- Chlo-e (Song of the Swamp)
- Coquette
- Crazy Rhythm
- Dardanella
- The Dardanella Blues
- Dippermouth Blues
- Down Yonder
- Farewell Blues
- The Georgia Grind
- I Ain’t Givin’ Nothin’
- I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby
- If I Had You
- If You Knew Susie
- I May Be Wrong, but I Think You’re Wonderful
- It Had to be You
- Jalousie
- The Japanese Sandman
- Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs off the Moon
- Lucky Day
- Mack the Knife
- Marigold
- Muscle Shoals Blues
- Muskrat Ramble
- My Blue Heaven
- Nagasaki
- Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie (The Original Boogie Woogie)
- Red Wing
- Rose of Washington Square
- Secondhand Rose
- Sitting on Top of the World
- Soliloquy: A Musical Thought
- Spring Fever
- Stardust
- Strut Miss Lizzie
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo’Bye!)
- Trouble in Mind
- What You Want Me to Do
- The Whip’poor’will Dance
- Whispering
- Wildwood Flower
- Yes Sir, That’s My Baby
1930
- As Time Goes By
- Believe It, Beloved
- Blue Lou
- Blue Moon
- Body and Soul
- Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)
- Cocktails for Two
- Deep Purple
- Goofus
- I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)
- In the Mood
- I Would Do Most Anything for You
- Johnson Rag
- The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down (The Looney Tunes Theme)
- Moonglow
- Moonlight Serenade
- Night Wind
- Out of Nowhere
- Por Una Cabeza
- Prisoner of Love
- Restless
- Some Sweet Day
- Stormy Weather
- Tabú
- These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
- Top Hat on the Moon
- Truckin’
- Two Cigarettes in the Dark
- The Very Thought of You
- Was That the Human Thing to Do
- We’ll Meet Again
- You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)
1940
- Along the Santa Fe Trail
- Bumble Boogie
- Blueberry Hill
- Chattanooga Choo Choo
- Elmer’s Tune
- La Vie en Rose
- Music! Music! Music! (Put Another Nickel In)
- On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
- (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
- Sabre Dance
- Skylark
- Stella by Starlight
- Tenderly
- Twilight Time
- Velvet Moon
1950
- Ain’t That a Shame
- Beyond the Sea
- Canadian Sunset
- Cry
- Delicado
- Earth Angel
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite
- The Great Pretender
- Misty
- Mr. Sandman
- Night Train
- The Old Piano Roll Blues
- Soft Summer Breeze
- The Stripper
- You Don’t Know Me
1960
- Alley Cat
- Bring It On Home to Me
- Crazy
- The Last Date
- Mr. Bojangles
- My Way (Comme d’habitude)
- Puff, the Magic Dragon
- What a Wonderful World
1970
- Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
- In the Summertime
- The Music Box Dancer
- Rapid Roy (That Stock Car Boy)
- Southern Nights
- Time in a Bottle
HOLIDAY SONGS
- Auld Lang Syne
- Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire (The Christmas Song)
- Christmas Time Is Here
- Deck the Halls
- Easter Parade
- Frosty the Snowman
- Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
- Hava Nagila
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Halloween Theme
- I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Jingle Bells
- Jingle Bell Rock
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- The Man with the Bag
- Over There
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Stars and Stripes Forever
- What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?
- White Christmas
- Winter Wonderland
- You’re a Grand Old Flag
MUSICALS
42ND STREET
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer
- 42nd Street
- Lullaby of Broadway
- Shuffle off to Buffalo
- Young and Healthy
- We’re in the Money
- You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT
Music by Richard Rogers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
- My Heart Stood Still
- Thou Swell
CABARET
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
- Cabaret
- Maybe This Time
- Two Ladies
- Willkommen
CATS
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Trevor Nunn
- Memory
THE FANTASTICKS
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Lyrics by Tom Jones
- Soon It’s Gonna Rain
- Try to Remember
THE GIRL FRIEND
Music by Richard Rogers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
- Blue Room
- The Girl Friend
LES MISERABLES
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel (French); Herbert Kretzmer (English)
- I Dreamed a Dream
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
By Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin
- The Boy Next Door
- Meet Me in St. Louis*
- The Trolley Song
- Under the Bamboo Tree*
*”Meet Me in St. Louis” and “Under the Bamboo Tree” were not written for this musical; they were both popular ragtime songs by different composers.
MUSIC IN THE AIR
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
- In Egern on the Tegern See
- I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star
- The Song Is You
- We Belong Together
NAUGHTY MARIETTA
Music by Victor Herbert
Libretto by Rida Johnson Young
- Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
- I’m Falling in Love with Someone
NO, NO, NANETTE
Music by Vincent Youmans
Lyrics by Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach
- I Want to Be Happy
- Tea for Two
OKLAHOMA!
Music by Richard Rogers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
- I Cain’t Say No
- Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’
- Oklahoma!
- People Will Say We’re in Love
- Surrey with the Fringe on Top
ON YOUR TOES
Music by Richard Rogers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
- Slaughter on Tenth Avenue*
*”Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” was considered a “jazz ballet,” and although Lorenz Hart wrote the lyrics for the musical On Your Toes, “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” does not have lyrics.
ON THE AVENUE
Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin
- I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- Slumming on Park Avenue
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Music by Andrew Lloyd Weber
Lyrics by Charles Hart
Libretto by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Richard Stilgoe
- All I Ask of You
- Music of the Night
- Phantom of the Opera
PORGY AND BESS
Music by George Gershwin
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Libretto by DuBose Heyward
- Bess, You Is My Woman Now
- I Got Plenty of Nuttin’
- It Ain’t Necessarily So
- Summertime
SHOW BOAT
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
- Bill
- Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
- Hey, Feller
- Make Believe
- Ol’ Man River
- Why Do I Love You
- You Are Love
SHUFFLE ALONG
Music by James Herbert “Eubie” Blake
Lyrics by Noble Sissle
- The Baltimore Buzz
- Gypsy Blues
- I’m Just Wild about Harry
TAN MANHATTAN
Music by James Herbert “Eubie” Blake
Lyrics by Andy Razaf
- I’d Give A Dollar for A Dime
TOP HAT
Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin
- Cheek to Cheek
- Isn’t This A Lovely Day?
- No Strings (I’m Fancy Free)
- Piccolino
- Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
You Were Never Lovelier
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
- Dearly Beloved
- I’m Old Fashioned
- You Were Never Lovelier
MOVIES / TELEVISION
- A Wink and A Smile
- Concerning Hobbits
- Dracula’s Lament
- Drifting (Theme from Auntie Mame)
- Family Guy Theme
- H. R. Pufnstuf Theme
- Glad Rag Doll
- The Godfather Waltz
- Love Theme from The Godfather
- Inchworm
- Linus and Lucy
- Miss Ceilie’s Blues
- Moon River
- Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head
- Remembering You
- Somewhere in Time
- Somewhere My Love (Lara’s Theme)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- The Third Man Theme
- Theme from New York, New York
- Those Were the Days
- Tiger Song
- Twin Peaks Theme/Love Theme
- Unchained Melody
- Wallace and Gromit Theme
- The Way We Were
- Westworld Title Theme/Sweetwater
- Where Everybody Knows Your Name
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
DISNEY
101 Dalmations
- Cruella de Vil
Aladdin
- Friend Like Me
- A Whole New World
Beauty and the Beast
- Beauty and the Beast
- Be Our Guest
The Little Mermaid
- Part of Your World
- Under the Sea
The Muppets
- Fraggle Rock Theme
- Happiness Hotel
- I Hope That Somethin’ Better Comes Along
- Moving Right Along
- The Muppets Theme
- The Rainbow Connection
- Right Where I Belong
- Together Again
Pinocchio
- Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (An Actor’s Life for Me)
- When You Wish Upon a Star
Pixar
- If I Didn’t Have You
- Married Life
- Nemo’s Egg
- The Time of Your Life
- You’ve Got A Friend in Me
Winne the Pooh
- Winnie the Pooh
OVER THE GARDEN WALL
- A Courting Song
- Adelaide Parade
- Everything Is Nice and Fine
- Into the Unknown
- Old North Wind
- Over the Garden Wall
- Patient Is the Night
- Potatoes and Molasses
ELVIS PRESLEY
- Are You Lonesome Tonight?
- Can’t Help Falling in Love
THE BEATLES
- Blackbird
- Eleanor Rigby
- Here, There, and Everywhere
- Hey Jude
- Let It Be
- Martha, My Dear
- Revolution
- Rocky Racoon
- Yesterday
- When I’m Sixty-Four
ELTON JOHN
- Bennie and the Jets
- Crocodile Rock
BILLY JOEL
- It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me
- Piano Man
LEONARD COHEN
- Hallelujah
RANDY NEWMAN
- Jolly Coppers on Parade
- Short People
DANIEL ROTTENBERG
- Ballad of the Loch Ness Monster
- Blues
- Boogie Woogie #2
- Busy As A Duck
- The Claim Jumpers’ Rag
- Crucible of the Savanna
- Dandelion Glide
- Daniel’s Boogie Woogie
- The Denver Waltz
- Dr. Dino
- Durango Tango
- Earworm Rag
- Equestrian Nights
- Fiddleleaf Rag
- Finale Rag
- Herbasaurus
- Lafadin Rag
- Monstera Rag
- Nepenthes Rag
- Ode to Goat
- Para(Freedom)Keet
- Perfection Rag
- The Reid Rag
- Strater Strut
- Sturdy Turtle
- The Ragtime Muppet
- Train Rag
- Walkin’
- Wilmington Stride
- You Camel (Say It Don’t Spray It)
- You Dirty Mouse
CLASSICAL
- Fur Elise
- Toccata en Fugue
MISCELLANEOUS
- Demo Song
- Dreaming with a Broken Heart
- Drops of Jupiter
- For Your Eyes Only
- I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing
- Let It Be Me
- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
- Ophelia
- Somebody That I Used to Know
- Trouble
VIDEO GAME SONGS
- Lord Ghirahim’s Theme
- Stardrop Saloon
- Super Mario Overworld Theme
- Super Mario Underworld Theme
- Super Mario World 1
- Super Mario World 2
- Zelda’s Lullaby