Burgess, Mitchell & Seal draw upon such musicians and songwriters as

 

Louis Armstrong     George Gershwin     Duke Ellington  Jerome Kern    Charlie Parker     Horace Silver     Fats Waller Sonny Rollins   Benny Goodman     Cole Porter      Thelonious Monk     Harold Arlen     Hoagy Carmichael     Erroll Garner     Count Basie     Luiz Bonfa     Les Brown     Dave Brubeck     Johnny Burke     Irving Berlin     Sammy Cahn     Ray Charles     Charlie Christian     Charles Brown     Dizzy Gillespie     Percy Mayfield     Louis Jordan Lennon & McCartney     Muddy Waters   Willie Dixon     Robert Johnson     Wilson Pickett     Antonio Carlos Jobim     Chick Corea     Vernon Duke     Bill Evans     Dorothy Fields     Benny Golson     Lester Young  Billie Holiday  Lionel Hampton     Otis Spann     Nat King Cole     Bobby Timmons  Scott Joplin     Fats Domino     Charlie Mingus     Jimmy Van Heusen      Charlie Shavers     Wayne Shorter     Howlin’ Wolf     Herbie Hancock     Clarence Pinetop Smith     Mel Torme     Memphis Slim     Lorenz Hart     Roosevelt Sykes    Juan Tizol     Bobby Troup     Buddy Johnson     Victor Young     Clarence Williams     Joe Zawinul     Tony Bennett   John Coltrane     George Shearing     Oscar Peterson     Bud Powell     Tommy Dorsey     Miles Davis     Artie Shaw     Frank Sinatra     Big Joe Turner     Pete Johnson     Greg Burgess     Red Garland     Art Blakey     Van Morrison     Jerry Lee Lewis     Professor Longhair     Paul Desmond    Ray Brown      Johnny Moore     Earl Bostic     Freddie Hubbard     Louis Prima     Johnny Mercer     Mose Allison     Richard Rodgers     Amos Milburn     Jimmy Rushing     Woody Herman     Earl Hines     T-Bone Walker   Billy Strayhorn     Mongo Santamaria     Herman Hupfeld      Lonnie Johnson     Kenny Dorham     Toots Thielemans     Ray Noble      Henry Mancini     Clare Fischer     Kurt Weill  Perez Prado    B.B. King     Glen Miller   Jimmy Reed     Vince Guaraldi     Tampa Red     Gus Kahn   Jimmy McHugh   Smokey Robinson   Ramsey Lewis        Jay McShann     

 

and play such tunes as

 

What A Wonderful World   A Foggy Day      I Got It Bad And That Ain’t Good     Ol’ Man River     Billie’s Bounce    Doodlin’     Honeysuckle Rose     Oleo     Don’t Be That Way     Night and Day   Misterioso     It’s Only a Paper Moon     Georgia On My Mind    Misty     Stompin’ At The Savoy     Black Orpheus Sentimental Journey  Pennies From Heaven     Always      Until the Real Thing Comes Along     Hallelujah I Lover Her So     Let’s Dance     Driftin’ Blues      Groovin’ High     Please Send Me Someone to Love     Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby     Norwegian Wood     Rolling Stone     Built For Comfort     Sweet Home Chicago     In the Midnight Hour     Girl From Ipanema     Windows     I Can’t Get Started     Blue In Green      I Can’t Give You Anything But Love     Killer Joe     Lester Leaps In  God Bless the Child     Flying Home     It Must Have Been the Devil     Little Joe From Chicago     Moanin’     The Entertainer     Blueberry Hill     Goodbye Porkpie Hat     But Beautiful     Undecided     Footprints     Little Red Rooster     Watermelon Man     Pinetop’s Boogie     The Christmas Song    Every Day I Have the Blues     My Romance     Drivin’ Wheel  Perdido     Route 66     Since I Fell For You     Stella by Starlight     Mercy, Mercy, Mercy     I Left My Heart in San Francisco     Naima     Lullaby of Birdland     Cute     Freddie the Freeloader     Fly Me to the Moon     Shake, Rattle, and Roll     Roll ‘Em Pete      Heads Up     Moondance     Great Balls of Fire     No Buts, No Maybe’s     Take Five     Harlem Nocturne     Up Jumped Spring     One for My Baby     Your Mind Is On Vacation     Stormy Monday Blues  The Lady Is a Tramp     Satin Doll     Opus One     Take the A Train     Afro Blue      As Time Goes By      Jelly Roll Baker      Bluesette     Cherokee     Days of Wine and Roses     Morning     Mack the Knife     Mambo No. 5      The Thrill Is Gone      String of Pearls     Big Boss Man     Linus and Lucy     Don’t Blame Shorty     Makin’ Whoopee     On the Sunny Side of the Street     My Girl  Unforgettable Scrapple from the Apple  Evidence  Let’s Do It    Moonglow  The In Crowd    Keep Your Hands Off Of Her

 

and much much more

           

                          we tend to mix genres but we can stick to them too