TAPESTRY is one of Alabama’s hottest party bands. It was first founded in 1980 when Sam Williams, Tom Sellers, and other members of the 604th Air Force Rock Band "Max Load" began playing jazz shows in clubs around Montgomery. Since then the band has played hundreds of engagements in Alabama and surrounding states. The musicians in TAPESTRY have over 150 years in combined musical experience. All members have years of both on-the-job and formal musical training. Everyone in the band has worked professionally in a number of different musical genres (rock, soul, jazz, R&B, country, blues, etc.), all members read music, and the band members maintain written charts of each new song, allowing us to pick up new songs very quickly and maintain them in the repertoire.
TAPESTRY custom designs each performance considering the type of event, the number of people, audience demographics (Age range, racial make up, etc.) and requests from the audience. We have successfully entertained for wedding receptions, fraternity parties, corporate dinners/dances, society balls, fund raisers, and in numerous nightclubs. We specialize in being able to play quiet music for a dinner or the initial hour of a wedding reception and then turn around and "rock the house" when it is time for dancing.
Print Song List
Route 66
Al Jarreau arrangement - Since I Fell For You
Aretha Franklin - Dr. Feelgood
B.B. King - The Thrill is Gone
Bette Midler / Others - Wind Beneath My Wings
Booker T & the MG's - Green Onions
Buddy Ace - Love of Mine
Denise LaSalle - Sad, Sad Story
Dolly Parton/Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
Eagles - Tequila Sunrise
Eric Clapton - Tore Down
Garth Brooks - The Dance
George Gershwin - Summertime
George Strait - I Cross My Heart
Ike Turner - Matchbox
Johnny Taylor - Last Two Dollars
Johnny Taylor - Let's Straighten it Out
Johnny Taylor - Sending You a Kiss
Kenny Chesney? - It's Your Love
Robben Ford - Start it Up
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason
Trad./Allmann Brothers - Stormy Monday
Trad/Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pride and Joy
Willie Cobb (Allman Bros) - You Don't Love Me
Willie Dixon - Let Me Love You Baby
Willie Dixon - Third Degree
Willie Dixon/Allmann Bros - Statesboro Blues
- Beach Music
Drifters - Under the Boardwalk
Honey Drippers - Sea of Love
Jimmy Buffett - A Pirate Looks At Forty (Mother Mother Ocean)
Jimmy Buffett - Fins
Jimmy Buffett - Volcano
Otis Redding - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
- Classic Rock
Allmann Brothers - Hot L'Anta
Allmann Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Atlanta Rhythm Section - Spooky
Billy Vera - At This Moment
Bob Dylan - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Bob Seeger - Old Time Rock and Roll
Bruce Springsteen - Pink Cadillac
Cream (Eric Clapton) - Crossroads
Credence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running
Eagles - Desperado
Eagles - I Can't Tell You Why
Eric Clapton - Old Love
Georgia Satellites - KeepYour Hands To Yourself
Grateful Dead - Eyes of the World
Joe Cocker/Three Dog Night - Feeling Alright
Lynrd Skynrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Neville Brothers - Fiyo on the Bayou
Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale
Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Stephen Stills/Luther Vandross - Love the One You're With
Steve Winwood/Sam And Dave - Gimme Some Lovin
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Van Morrison - Moon Dance
ZZ Top - Sharp dressed man
ZZ Top - Tush
- Jazz
Allmann Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Alphonse Mouzon - Next Time We Love
Anita Baker (Instrumental) - Sweet Love
Charlie Parker - Au Privave
Chick Corea - Sea Journey
Chick Corea - Spain
Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good
Dave Grusin - Friends and Strangers
David Sanborn - Chicago Song
David Sanborn - Hideaway
David Sanborn - Maputo
George Benson - Masquerade
George Benson / Leon Russell - Superstar
George Howard - Uptown
Grover Washington - Mr. Magic
Grover Washington - Winelight
Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Hiroshima - Hawaii Electric
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Joe Henderson - Recordame
John Coltrane - Body and Soul
John Coltrane - Impressions
John Coltrane - Mr. P.C.
John Coltrane / Arr. Tapestry - Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
John Klemmer - Just Friends
Kaper / Washington - On Green Dolphin Street
Kenny G. - Songbird
Koinonia - Graceful
Miles Davis - All Blues
Miles Davis - Four
Miles Davis - Freddie the Freeloader
Miles Davis - Solar
Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments
Paul Desmond - Take Five
Rich Elliot - Take Your Time
Roberta Flack (Instrumental) - Feel Like Making Love
Sonny Rollins - Oleo
Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
Sonny Rollins - Sunny Moon for Two
Spyrogyra - It Doesn't Matter
Spyrogyra - Morning Dance
Stanley Turrentine - Sugar
Thelonius Monk - Blue Monk
Thelonius Monk - Round Midnight
Thelonius Monk - Straight No Chaser
Victor Young - Stella By Starlight
War - City, Country, City
Wayne Shorter - Footprints
- R&B and Soul
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Al Green / David Sanborn - Love and Happiness
Al Jarreau - Tell Me (reggae)
Al Jarreau - Tell Me What I've Got to Do
Al Jarreau arrangement - Since I Fell For You
Anita Baker - Giving You the Best That I've Got
Anita Baker - Rapture
Anita Baker - Sweet Love
Anita Baker - Whatever It Takes
Aretha Franklin - Baby, Baby, Baby I Love You
Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
Aretha Franklin - Respect
Aretha Franklin - Till You Come Back To Me.
Baby Face - Whip Appeal
Ben E. King - Stand By Me
Commodores - Brick House
Gladys Knight - I Don't Want to Know
Gladys Knight - Love Overboard
Gladys Knight - Midnight Train to Georgia
Gladys Knight - Neither One Of Us
Gladys Knight - You Are The Best Thing
Grover Washington - You've Got the Best of My Love
James Brown - I Feel Good
Johnny Gill - My, My, My
Johnny Taylor - Slide On
Kool and the Gang - Celebration
Luther Vandross - Here and Now
Luther Vandross - House
Luther VanDross - Power of Love
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin On
Maze - Feel What You Feel
Nat King/Natalie Cole - Unforgettable
Natalie Cole - Inseparable
Oleta Adams - Get Here
Otis Day and the Knights - Shout
Patti LaBelle - Right Kind of Lover
Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman
Prince - Kiss
Quincy Jones - Secret Garden
Sade - Smooth Operator
Sam and Dave - Hold On, I'm Coming
Sam and Dave - Mustang Sally
Sam and Dave - Soul Man
Sam And Dave - When Something is Wrong With My Baby
Sam Cook - Bad Boy
Staple Singers - I'll Take You There
Stevie Wonder - For Your Love
Tapestry Arrangement - Electric Slide
Tapestry Arrangement - George Clinton P'Funk, Old Slide Medley
Tapestry Arrangement - Sam Cook Medley
Temptations - The Way You Do the Things You Do
Temptations / Tapestry - Temptations Medley
Toni Braxton - Another Sad Love Song
Toni Braxton - Seven Whole Days
Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart
War - Low Rider
Whitney Houston - Waiting to Exhale (Shoup, Shoup)
- Standards, Swing, and Jazz
LATIN
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Corcovado (Quiet nights of quiet dreams)
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Dindi
Antonio Carlos Jobim - How Insensitive
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Meditation
Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Girl From Ipanema
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Triste'
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave
Barbara Streisand/ Others - The Way We Were
Burke Van Husen - It Could Happen to You
Cory / Cross - I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Count Basie / Spencer Williams - Basin Street Blues
Dubin and Franklin - Anniversary Waltz
Duke Ellington - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Duke Ellington - In a Mellow Tone
Duke Ellington - Mood Indigo
Duke Ellington - Satin Doll
Duke Ellington - Take the A Train
Fisher / Segal - When Sunny Gets Blue
George Gershwin - Someone to Watch Over Me
George Gershwin - Summertime
Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade
Green / Brown / Homer - Sentimental Journey
H. J. Lengsfelder - Perdido
Harold Arlen - Over the Rainbow
Henry Mancini - The Days of Wine and Roses
Herman Hupfeld - From Casablanca - As Time Goes By
Heyman/ Young - When I Fall in Love
Hoagy Carmichael - Georgia on My Mind
Hoagy Carmichael - Lazy River
Hughie Cannon - Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
Jerome Kern - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Jim Van Heusen - Here's that Rainy Day
Johnny Mandel - The Shadow of Your Smile
Johnny Mercer - Autumn Leaves
Louis Armstrong - Wonderful World
Martino/ Siegel - Estate'
Michel Legrand - What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life
Mitchell Parish - Stairway to the Stars
Morgan Lewis - How High the Moon
Parish/Perkins - Stars Fell on Alabama
Phil Spector - Spanish Harlem
Rogers and Hart - My Funny Valentine
Tony Bennett - The Way You Look Tonight
Traditional - When the Saints Go Marching In
Warren / Gordon - There Will Never Be Another You
Wright et. al - Jersey Bounce