20s Jazz Wedding March?

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I am getting married next Saturday and we are having a 1920s Jazz wedding (actually my fiancé recently posted about a short film to show before the ceremony).

I have yet to settle on something to “walk down the aisle” to. I would like something slow, yet upbeat and obviously from the late 20s early 30s in the hot jazz style.

Any ideas?

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You say “march.” Does it have to be march tempo?

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Oh no, not at all. I mean, it should be easy to walk to, not too fast, not too slow… but it doesn’t have to be a march beat.

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Track 32 on this album is probably exactly what you’re looking for (it’s fizzy and charming), except at less than a minute, probably too too short.

I did find this on YouTube, though.

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A couple of gems from Bix Beiderbecke

I’ll Be a Friend “With Pleasure”

Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down

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That’s for your recessional!
For the entrance, I don’t know how slow is “slow.” But you can walk as slow as you want to a faster tempo. The first song that crossed my mind, I swear, was Struttin with Some Barbecue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxGruxZVavM (And let me tell you, that isn’t referring to cooked meat.) That would make an awesome recessional, I think.

Depending on how hot and slinky you want to go, there’s The Mooche by Duke Ellington. Definitely could be a march. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDVZdZMCc0w

ETA: Georgia Cake Walk by Art Hodes & His Chicagoans?

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Damn, you beat me to it…exactly what I was going to suggest!

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Interesting assignment. I assume you don’t want a medium-paced piece - you don’t want to race down the aisle.

Here are some ideas from the Red Hot Jazz Archive. The sound quality here isn’t very good, but it’s a good place to listen to a lot of music from that era. If you decide you like something you can buy it someplace else (the quality of a CD reissue will be a lot better). Each page lists a bunch of different recordings, so I can’t post links to each one - I’ll give links to the pages and name the recordings I think are appropriate. BTW, I assume it’s OK to list things from the very early thirties (I’ll give the year of each recording).

Duke Ellington’s Cotton Club Orchestra:

Cotton Club Stomp (1929)
Doin’ the Voom Voom (1929)
Hot Feet (1929)

The Jungle Band (an Ellington pseudonym):

Rent Party Blues (1929)

Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra

She’s No Trouble (1928)
Moten Swing (1932)
New Moten Stomp (1930)

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra

Business in F (1931)

Joe Venuti’s Blue Four

A Mug of Ale

Luis Russell and His Orchestra

Feelin’ the Spirit (1929)

I’ll post more as I think of them.