Ken Cluck

Biography

A 1970 graduate of Rice University with a doctorate from the University of Texas, Ken Cluck covers all the basses -electric, acoustic and brass. He has mastered a variety of musical styles over the years, beginning in 1969 at Astroworld with the fabulous "Do Dah Daze" Dixieland band. Ken honed his skills playing with Dick Shannon's "Astronuts", Kit Reid's "Texas Dixie Kings", Tiny Skaggs and the "Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Band", and Greg Harbar's "Gypsies". Ken was a vocal student of the late Michael Lawrence and studied acting with Marietta Marich. He has appeared on stage at the Alley Theater and the Theater Under The Stars’ Shamrock Cabaret Theater. In 1983, Ken joined with Joe Wheeler and Paul Buskirk to form Pizazz DixieJazz, Houston’s premier Dixieland band. By 1990, The Ken Cluck Jazz Combo emerged with a more sophisticated 30's jazz swing sound, entertaining at private parties and receptions in Houston’s upscale neighborhoods, country clubs, and restaurants. Ken Cluck also leads the Holiday Brass Ensemble and the Polka Dots, two specialty groups that entertain at a variety of venues during Christmas and Oktoberfest.

Jazz Ensemble Songlist
A Foggy Day
After You've Gone
Ain't Misbehavin'
Ain't She Sweet
Alexander's Ragtime
Band
All Of Me
All The Things You Are
Alley Cat
Always
Am I Blue
Anniversary Song
Anything Goes
Anytime
April Showers
As Time Goes By
At Sundown
Autumn In New York
Avalon
Baby Face
Back Home Again In
Indiana
Ballin’ The Jack
Basin Street Blues
Beer Barrel Polka
Begin The Beguine
Bei Mir Bis Du Schoen
Bessa Me Mucho
Bill Bailey
Birth Of The Blues
Blue Moon
Blue Room
Body & Soul
By The Beautiful Sea
Bye Bye Blues
Bye Bye Blackbird
California Here I
Come
Carolina In The
Morning
Charleston
Chattanooga Choo
Choo
Cherokee
Chicago
China Boy
Chinatown My
Chinatown
Come Rain Or Come
Shine
Crazy
Dancing Cheek To
Cheek
Darktown Strutter’s
Ball
Deed I Do
Diane
Do You Ever Think Of Me
Do You Know What It
Means To Miss New
Orleans
Don't Get Around
Much Anymore
Dream A Little Dream
Of Me
Emily
Elmer’s Tune
Embraceable You
Everybody Loves
Somebody Sometime
Exactly Like You
Falling In Love With
Love
Fascinating Rhythm
Fascination
Five Foot Two
Fly Me To The Moon
Forty Second Street
Georgia On My Mind
Get Me To The
Church On Time
Girl From Ipanima
Green Eyes
Hello Dolly
Here's That Rainy
Day
Hey Good Lookin'
Hindustan
Honeysuckle Rose
I Can't Give You
Anything But Love
I Can’t Believe That
You’re In Love With Me
I Can’t Help Falling In
Love With You
I Found A New Baby
I Get A Kick Out Of You
I Got Rhythm
I Left My Heart In San
Francisco
I’ll Take Manhattan
If I Had You
I'm Beginning To See
The Light
I'm Confessin'
I'm Gonna Sit Right
Down And Write
Myself A Letter
I'm Looking Over A
Four Leaf Clover
In A Shanty In Old
Shantytown
In The Mood
Is It True What They
Say About Dixie
Isle Of Capri
It Had To Be You
It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
It's A Small World
It's Been A Long,
Long Time
It's Only A Paper
Moon
I've Got A Crush On You
Ja Da
Jazz Me Blues
Jeepers Creepers
Just A Closer Walk
With Thee
Just A Gigolo
Just In Time
Kansas City
Let Me Call You
Sweetheart
Let's Do It
Limehouse Blues
Little Girl
Love Is Here To Stay
Lover Come Back To Me
Lullaby Of Birdland
Mack The Knife
Makin' Whoopie
Mame
Margie
Me And My Shadow
Memories Of You
Memory From Cats
Midnight In Moscow
Mississippi Mud
Mister Sandman
Misty
Mood Indigo
Moon River
Moonglow
Moonlight In
Vermont
Moonlight Serenade
Muskrat Ramble
My Blue Heaven
My Funny Valentine
My Melancholy Baby
Nearness Of You
Never On Sunday
New York, New York
Nobody's
Sweetheart
On A Clear Day
On The Street
Where You Live
One
Only You
Paper Doll
Peg O' My Heart
Pennies From
Heaven
Perdido
Poor Butterfly
Pretty Baby
Puttin On The Ritz
Rainbow Connection
Roseroom
Rosetta
San Antonio Rose
Satin Doll
Sentimental Journey
Sheik Of Arabie
Shine
Shine On Harvest
Moon
Side By Side
Sleepytime Gal
Slow Boat To China
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Somebody Stole My Gal
Someone To Watch Over Me
Somewhere My Love
Sophisticated Lady
Spanish Eyes
Stardust
Stormy Weather
Straighten Up And Fly Right
Strangers In The Night
Strike Up The Band
Struttin' With Some
Barbecue
Stumblin'
Sunny Side Of The Street
Sweet Georgia Brown
Sweet Lorraine
Sweet Sue
Talk Of The Town
Tea For Two
Tennessee Waltz
That's A Plenty
The Darktown
Strutters Ball
The Gang That Sang
Heart Of My Heart
The Lady Is A Tramp
The Nearness Of You
The Way You Look Tonight
There'll Be Some Changes Made
They Can’t Take That Away Freom Me
Tuxedo Junction
Twelfth Street Rag
Undecided
Unforgettable
Up A Lazy River
Wabash Blues
Waiting For The
Robert E. Lee
Walkin' My Baby
Back Home
Washington And Lee
Swing
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
What A Difference A Day Makes
What A Wonderful World
What’ll I Do When I Fall In Love
When It's Sleepytime
Down South
When You're Smiling
Whispering
Who's Sorry Now
Won't You Ride In
My Little Red Wagon
Wrap Your Troubles
In Dreams
You Made Me Love You