The Esquires spent 2020-2021 (the COVID years) together yet apart! Performing “Cheek to Cheek” here are: Kevin Kennard, Dan Freyer, Lia Booth, Kathleen Jequinto (Vocals) with Sax players Aran Tanchum, Mike Munson, Ben Sachs, Ellen Engelke, Wolf Fengler, Trumpet players Henry Mitchell, Alex Hille, Adam Wermus, Trombone players Sarah Brown and Megan Brundin, plus Rhythm Section Frank Giffen, Harmony Forsythe, Analii Mosquera, and Mel Flores. Professional countdown from Band Leader Eric Brundin!

 
 

The Fabulous Esquires Big Band performs “Big John’s Special” at the annual Planes of Fame Hangar Dance and Warbird Party

The Fabulous Esquires Big Band performs “On the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe” at the Automobile Driving Museum

Esquires Dance Book

Founded in 1958, the Esquires charts span decades of arrangements. Take a look at a few of the songs the Big Band pulls from for each event. View our complete dance book here.

Instrumental Swing Charts

Benny Goodman

  • After You’ve Gone (1936)
  • All of Me (also vocal) (1939)
  • Bugle Call Rag (1939)
  • Don’t Be That Way (1938)
  • In the Mood (1939)
  • Let’s Dance (1937)
  • Shout and Feel It (1937)
  • Sing, Sing, Sing (1937)
  • Somebody Stole My Gal (1937)
  • Somebody Loves Me (1937)
  • Take the “A” Train (1941)
  • Tuxedo Junction (1940)
  • You Took Advantage of Me (1939)

Tommy Dorsey

  • Continental (The) (1940)
  • Intermission Riff (1938)
  • Leap Frog (1941)
  • Music Makers (1941)
  • Sun Valley Jump (1941)

Glenn Miller

  • 920 Special (1941)
  • American Patrol (1941)
  • Begin the Beguine (1938)
  • Big John’s Special (1941)
  • Boulder Buff (1941)
  • Bugle Call Rag (1941)
  • Caravan (1936)
  • Cherry (1941)
  • In the Mood (1939)
  • Jeep Jockey Jump (1941)
  • Let’s Dance (1937)
  • Pennsylvania 6-5000 (1940)
  • Skyliner (1941)
  • Song of India (medley) (1941)
  • Song of the Volga Boatmen (1941)
  • String of Pearls (1941)
  • Sun Valley Jump (1941)
  • Tuxedo Junction (1940)
  • When My Baby Smiles at Me (medley) (1941)

Count Basie

  • In the Mood (1939)
  • Jumpin’ at the Woodside (1938)
  • Keep ‘Em Flyin’ (1939)
  • Moten Swing (1939)
  • One O’Clock Jump (1937)
  • Shout and Feel It (1937)
  • Somebody Loves Me (1937)
  • Sun Valley Jump (1941)
  • Takin’ My Place (1939)
  • That Old Black Magic (1940)

Cole Porter

  • I’ll Take Manhattan (1940)
  • Let’s Fall in Love (1933)
  • Love For Sale (1930)
  • Very Thought of You (The) (1934)

Frank Sinatra

  • Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (medley) (1942)
  • Fly Me to the Moon (1964)
  • Love You Madly (1939)
  • New York, New York (1980)
  • Night and Day (1942)
  • Witchcraft (1957)
  • You Make Me Feel So Young (1946)

Duke Ellington

  • Caravan (1936)
  • Take the “A” Train (1941)

Harry James – Trumpet Blues (1939)

Louis Armstrong – Johnson Rag (1941)

  • Stompin’ at the Savoy (1936)

Louis Prima

  • Marie (medley) (1941)
  • That Old Black Magic (1942)

Bing Crosby

  • On a Slow Boat to China (1948)
  • Pennies From Heaven (1936)
  • Wrap Your Troubles (medley) (1942)

Gene Austin

  • My Blue Heaven (1927)
  • Somebody Stole My Gal (1925)

Artie Shaw – Begin the Beguine (1938)

Lionel Hampton – Stompin’ at the Savoy (1936)

Vocal Arrangements

Various Artists

  • All of Me (1941)
  • I Get a Kick Out of You (1953)
  • I Left My Heart in San Francisco (1962)
  • Polka Dots and Moonbeams (1942)
  • Almost Like Being in Love (1947)
  • I Remember You (1942)
  • Rock Me to Sleep (1942)
  • Always (1942)
  • I’m Beginning to See the Light (1945)
  • Save the Last Dance (1959)
  • And the Angels Sing (1944)
  • I’ve Got the World on a String (1953)
  • Say Si, Si (1944)
  • Anything But Love (1942)
  • I’ve Got You Under My Skin (1956)
  • Second Time Around (1961)
  • Arthur Murray (1945)
  • I’ve Heard that Song Before (1942)
  • Sentimental Journey (1944)
  • At Last (1960)
  • In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening (1956)
  • Stop! The Red Light’s On (1942)
  • Best is Yet to Come (The) (1964)
  • It Had to be You (medley) (1944)
  • Stuff Like That There (1959)
  • Beyond the Sea (1960)
  • Just a Little Bit South of So. Car. (1942)
  • Sway (1953)
  • Lady is a Tramp (1956)
  • Swingin’ on a Star (1944)
  • Buona Sera (1959)
  • Let’s Face the Music and Dance (1949)
  • Swingin’ on Nothin’ (1954)
  • But Not for Me (1946)
  • Let’s Fall in Love (1947)
  • Tangerine (1942)
  • Coffee Song (The) (1945)
  • L-O-V-E (1964)
  • That Old Black Magic (1942)
  • Come Fly With Me (1958)
  • Love You Madly (1943)
  • They All Laughed (1956)
  • Crazy Little Thing Called Love (1959)
  • Luck Be a Lady (1950)
  • Unforgettable (1961)
  • Day In, Day Out (1949)
  • Mack the Knife (1959)
  • Very Thought of You (The) (1957)
  • Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (1942)
  • More (1963)
  • Way You Look Tonight (The) (1936)
  • Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (1942)
  • Murder, He Says (1944)
  • We Are in Love (1959)
  • Don’t Worry About Me (1940)
  • My Kind of Town (1964)
  • What’cha Know Joe (1944)
  • Fly Me to the Moon (1964)
  • My Way (1969)
  • Witchcraft (1957)
  • Fly Me to the Moon (1964)
  • New York, New York (1980)
  • You Make Me Feel So Young (1946)
  • Goodnight, My Love (1947)
  • Nice and Easy (1960)
  • You’re Getting to be a Habit (1944)
  • How About You (1941)
  • Night and Day (1942)
  • You’re Nobody ‘til Somebody Loves You (1943)
  • I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me (1944)
  • One Girl and Two Boys (1953)

Bing Crosby

  • All the Things You Are (1941)
  • I Left My Heart in San Francisco (1962)

Nat King Cole

  • Orange Colored Sky (1950)

Doris Day

  • Sentimental Journey (1945)

Ella Fitzgerald

  • I’ve Got You Under My Skin (1944)

Tony Bennett

  • I Left My Heart in San Francisco (1962)