top of page

STANDARDS are great, but without a fresh and new twist added, it's hard to compete with the definitive versions and many have become shop-worn. Try something different and off the beaten path with New Original Material where you will come out of your comfort zone. 

​

SONG MENU

(Click To Hear)

Jazz Swing  Tune

Soulful Ballad

Ballads

Jazz

Jazz

(Comments Welcome)

Jazz Blues

Jazz - Ode to the great CLIFFORD BROWN

Jazz/Rock/Blues

Pop Soul

Jazz/Rock

Rock/Blues

       This site has undiscovered music

       YOU could possibly use.​

​

The Night Cabbie

                  Why Is Love Blue?

              A Part Of My Heart

 Jazz Ballad

Pop Ballad

​

  Jazz

Cy Green is a self-taught songwriter. Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives in the western suburbs. It took 15 years of work before 4 songs were published in 1993. He and Jimmy Miller signed a one year song(s) contract. The publisher decided to push other formats of music, and never signed a recording Artist to their material.

 

Other interested song publishers did not know what field to place some of their songs. JAZZ? POP? Adult Contemporary? And on one song, it was: "Let's modify the chords, alter the rhythm and make it COUNTRY." That was it for music publishers!

 

Songs were then given directly to visiting Artists performing in Chicago. But for some strange reason, they never approached a MUSICIAN ( Group Leader.) They got really close with Jazz Singers MARK MURPHY and KEVIN MAHOGANY, but it never happen, they could not close a deal.​​​​​​​

​

​                                                                                            ​

​                                               

​

​

​

                                         â€‹

​

​

00:00 / 01:47
00:00 / 03:15

VOCAL

INSTRUMENTAL

(LIVE LINK Go To Page)

               Composed by Cy Green

00:00 / 02:14

You can have some FUN with this one!

​

​

​

​

These Chicago ARTISTS worked on their earlier Demos.

​

​

​       

​

​

​

                 ​

​

Jack Cassidy

Gary Novak

jgailloreto_edited.jpg

Jim Gailoretto

      Paul Coscino                               Redd Holt

Bill Acosta

Sam Gibson

plus VOCALISTS:

Rob Amster

Brad Goode

Joannie Pallatto

and Denise Davis

Anyone interested in our music, We send FREE Leads with FULL MP3 samples.

 

 

All inquiries to:

James Scalise

1813 Ogden #2B

Lisle, IL 60532 USA

​

​

​

                                                            Website James Scalise 2023

                                                           E-MAIL: jazzlist7@yahoo.com

​

 

​

​

 CONTACT JIM: If interested in any songs on this site.   

  jazzlist7@yahoo.com

               "Don't Ever Leave Me"  (SONG DEMO)

Composed by Eddie Tobin & Cy Green

Swing Tune ala BASIE/SINATRA​

                                                              LIVE LIKS!

00:00 / 03:00

 PLAYBAR

I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.

00:00 / 09:29

PLAYBAR

Hooray for the Non - Performing Songwriters. They were once the cream of music and have produced most of the Great American Songbook. Bring them BACK! Enough of the POP singer/writer era. It's turned into mush, dribble, predictability and regurgitation.

BALLAD MEDLEY   All these tunes have LYRICS.

1) Things Ever Splendid  (One With Our Lord)

2) When We Move In Our Dance (Music Track-Melody Out!)

3) Why Is Love Blue?

4) My Joanne (Vocal)

5) Why Do I Feel This Way?

6)) Come Back Sweet Jesus! (Vocal)

 

JIMMY MILLER & CY GREEN

(Non-Performers)

32 years of collaboration

They are Chicago natives who are self-taught and came up the hard way. Some of their DEMO songs have been played on the radio and Artists have performed their tunes in public in Chicago and San Francisco. Four of their songs were published years ago, but the publishers dropped their Jazz catalog or went out of business. Major Jazz vocalists have shown interest ... But the business end was not their forte, and they could never close a deal.

Chasing the American Songbook


  Jim & Cy were heavily influenced by JAZZ musicians, and the GREAT music from the past from other genres. They have something that can be added to today's scene.Their roots are traditional with a new twist! The fact is, it is extremely rare when writers who do not perform, can also come up with original Jazz 'Heads' worthy of looking into.

FREE Lead Sheets sent on request.

If you are interested in performing and/or recording any of their tunes, you will deal directly with them. They are signed to no one and own all copyrights.

Our problem with music publishers was, they didn't know what Genre to place our songs. This is not hard complex stuff, and most tunes have LYRICS. We prefer to deal directly with the Artist. If you are a publisher who has a "solid in" with Jazz people, we'd consider signing contracts again... but man, time is running out for us. We've been there and done that.

 Cy Green: COMPOSER/LYRICIST

" A hurt and an emptiness started me in writing music." 

​

​

​

​

          I lost my dear friend and Co-Writer JIMMY  MILLER to cancer. 

​

                                He will never be replaced in my heart. 

​

​

​

​

​

 

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

"Cliffords' Chant"

​

178352789_4195273187170557_2289445853226454269_n.jpg
CLIFFORD Scratch Vocal Demo
JIMMY MILLERPHOTO_edited.jpg

Hear something you like? Give us theTITLE and your E-Mail. We'll send LEAD SHEET and full MP3.

 

(You are under no obligation.)

Remember, we are nothing without you, the Artist!

image.jpg

Thank you for stopping by and tell a friend about us.


E- Mail: jazzlist7@yahoo.com 

​

 

Contact: jazzlist7@yahoo.com    If interested in these tunes.

​

​

​

​

​

​

​​                                                                          All Rights Reserved/ Jimmy Scalise 2023

​

bottom of page