The Hot Cat Jazz Band is comfortable in many different settings (weddings, corporate events, house parties, summer gazebo or library concerts and swing dances to name a few).  The Hot Cat Jazz Band also specializes in performing for “Jazz Sunday” worship services (see video samples and repertoire below). The Hot Cat Jazz Band guarantees to have you dancing in the pews and aisles with their infectious New Orleans Dixieland sound!

The instrumentation of the group is trumpet, clarinet, trombone, guitar, bass and drums.

Within the service, the Hot Cat Jazz Band is able to perform prelude music, hymns and anthems.  We can accompany the choir (Ross does all the arrangements for you). The Hot Cat Jazz Band can also do a children’s time/sermon (quickly demonstrating the instruments).

Jazz Sunday Worship Service – Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, CT.

Prelude: Amazing Grace
Processional Hymn: Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Offertory Hymn: Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Recessional Hymn: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Postlude: When the Saints Go Marching In

Jazz Sunday Worship Service – Second Baptist Church, Suffield, CT.

Prelude:  Just a Closer Walk With Thee/All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir
Choir Anthem: Give Me That Old Time Religion
Preparation Hymn: This Little Light Of Mine
Offertory Anthem: Bless the Lord, O My Soul
Closing Hymn: Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Postlude: When the Saints Go Marching In

Jazz Sunday Worship Service – First Church of Christ, Glastonbury, CT.

Prelude: Down By the Riverside/All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir
Opening Hymn: Put Your Hand in the Hand
Children’s Choir Anthem: Climbing Up the Mountain
Preparation Hymn: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Offertory Anthem: When the Saints Go Marching In

Hot Cat Jazz Band Jazz Sunday sample repertoire

(most of these songs can be used for Prelude, Offertory, Communion, Hymns, etc).

All Gods Critter’s Got a Place In the Choir, Amazing Grace, Battle Hymn Of the Republic, Because He Lives, Bless This House, City Of Gold, Come Sunday, Down By the Riverside, Every Time I Feel the Spirit, Give Me That Old Time Religion, His Eye Is On the Sparrow, How Great Thou Art, In the Garden, I Love To Tell the Story, I Saw the Light, I Woke Up This Morning, Just a Closer Walk With Thee, Just a Little While To Stay Here, Leaning On the Everlasting Arms, Let Us Break Bread Together, Lord, I Want To Be A Christian, My Prayer For Today, Nearer, My God, To You, Old Rugged Cross, Onward Christian Soldiers, Over In the Gloryland, Peace Like a River, Precious Lord Take My Hand, Put Your Hand In the Hand, Shall We Gather At the River, Sweet Bye and Bye, Sweet Hour Of Prayer, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, The Preacher, This Little Light Of Mine, We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder, We’ll Understand It Better By and By, What a Friend We Have In Jesus, When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder, When the Saint Go Marching In, Will the Circle Be Unbroken.

Ross has arranged the following songs to accompany church choirs for Sunday Jazz Worship Services.  If you have any other suggestions, Ross would be more than happy to arrange them for the Hot Cat Jazz Band to play along with your choir.

After All – Mary McDonald
Ain’t a That Good News – African American Spiritual
Amazing Grace – Arr. By Ed Lojeski
Amazing Grace – Arr. Fred Bock
Amazing Grace – Arr. John Coates, Jr.
Bless Me (Prayer of Jabez) – Donald Lawrence and Andrae Crouch
Bless the Lord, O My Soul – Deborah Govenor
Climbin’ Up the Mountain – Patsy Ford Simms
Gaudeamus Hodie – Natalie Sleeth
Go Ye Into All The World – Eugene Butler
Halle, Hallelujah – Arr. John Michniewicz
Hallelujah Side, The – words by Johnson Oatman, Jr. Music by Stan Pethel
Hallelujah, We Shall Rise (from the Sunday Gospel Choir Kit) – Hal Leonard Corp.
Here’s One (Traditional Tune) – arr. Mark Hayes
I Been In de Storm So Long – Larry Shackley
I Bring You Good News – Words and Music by Lloyd Larson
Just A Closer Walk With Thee (from Sunday Gospel Choir Kit) – Arr. By Stan Pethel
Just A Closer Walk With Thee – Arranged by John F. Wilson
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning – Arr. John Helgen
Lift Him Up – arr. By Paul Ferrin
Lord, Listen To Your Children Praying – Music by Ken Medema and Joel Raney
Marchin’ On Up – Mark Hayes
Old Time Religion Medley – Arr. By Mark Hayes
Peace Like A River – Arr. By Charles Kirby
Ride Up in the Chariot – Larry Shackley
Soon and Very Soon – Jack Schrader and Andrae Crouch
Such Love – Words and music by Graham Kendrick – Choral Setting by Jack Schrader
Standing On The Promises –Words and music by R. Kelso Carter
Swingin’ With the Saints – Mark Hayes
That Old-Time Need of Prayer – arr. Craig Courtney
The Lily Of The Valley – (from the Sunday Gospel Choir Kit) Arranged by Stan Pethel
There’ll Be Peace In the Valley For Me – Thomas A. Dorsey
This Little Light of Mine – Joel Raney
Walk, While You Have the Light – Hank Beebe
We’ll Understand It Better By and By (from the Sunday Gospel Choir Kit)
What A Friend – by Charles C. Converse – choral setting by Jack Schrader
What A Friend We Have In Jesus – by Charles C. Converse – arranged by Harold M. Best
When The Saints Go Marching In – by John Rutter
When The Saints Go Marching In – for children choir or adult choir – Arr. Mary Ellen Junda
Where Will You Be? – Arranged by David Stocker