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18 Piece Big Band£1,920

Male Vocals, Female Vocals, 5 x Saxes, 4 x Trombones, 4 x Trumpets, Piano, Bass Drums and MD

Subtotal:£1,920

Total:£1,920

Amount payable to secure your booking:£320

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2 x 60 minute sets but we are flexible!

Leicester Big Band

from £1,920

Swing & Rat Pack Bands

Musical Director Roger Parsons and the Leicester Big Band provides the very best in hot foot-tapping music from the great swing and jump jive era of the 1940's through to the 1960's. Expect recreations of the original arrangements of the great Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Count Basie and the Ted Heath Band.

Combined with the talents of our two exceptional vocalists – Morgan Perkins and Karen Jamieson, they can present a programme of vocal standards from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin and Matt Monroe, plus Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney to name just a few, right up to recent hits by Michael Buble and Jamie Cullum.

Featuring Leicestershire’s finest musicians, the Leicester Big Band can promise you an evening of fine swing music. Whether your taste is for dancing, concert, wedding or just partying, the band can offer you a great choice of styles in musical entertainment.

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Repertoire
Specifications

Ain’t She Sweet
Angel Eyes
At Long Last Love
Come Fly With Me
East of the Sun
Fly Me To The Moon
Have You Met Miss Jones
How About You
I Get a Kick Out Of You
I’m Gonna Sit Right down and Right Myself a Letter
It Happened in Monteray
I’ve Got a Crush On You
I’ve Got You Under my Skin
I Wanna Be Around
I Will Drink the Wine
Learnin’ the Blues
Looking at the World through Rose Coloured Glasses
More
My Kind of Town
My Way
New York, New York
Nice ‘n’Easy
Nice Work if You Can Get It
One For My Baby
Pennies From Heaven
Please Be Kind
Something Stupid (Duet)
South of the Border
Swingin’ Down the Lane
That Old Black Magic
That’s Life
The Lady is a Tramp
The Shadow of your Smile
The Summer Wind
The Tender Trap
Witchcraft
You Make Me Feel So Young

Songs By Other Artists

Matt Monroe
A Wonderful Day Like Today
My Kind of Girl
Small Fry
This is the Life
When Joanna Loved Me

Michael Buble
All Of Me
All I Do Is Dream Of You

Dean Martin
Ain’t That a Kick in the Head
How Do You Like Your Eggs in the Morning (Duet)

Bobby Darin
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Beyond The Sea
Hello Dolly
Mack the Knife
O Look at me Now
Up a Lazy River

Ella Fitzgerald
Every Time We Say Goodbye
Manhattan
The Very Thought of You
That Old Feeling

Peggy Lee
Fever
On a Clear Day

Rosemary Clooney
Everything Happens to Me
If Swing Goes I Go Too
It Just Happened to Happen to Me
I Wanna be a Sideman
Let’s Get Away From It All

Linda Rondstat
Am I Blue
Bewitched
For Sentimental Reasons
You Go To My Head
You Took Advantage of Me

Plus countless standards by other artists

A SELECTION OF BIG BAND HITS FROM THE 40’s to 60’s

Glenn Miller
American Patrol
A String of Pearls
In The Mood
Jersey Bounce
Little Brown Jug
Perfidia
Pennsylvania 65000
St. Louis Blues March
Tuxedo Junction

Count Basie
April in Paris
Corner Pocket
Flight of the Foo Birds
Lil’ Darlin
One O’clock Jump
Satin Doll
Splanky
Swingin The Blues
Teddy The Toad----------(just a taste from our Count Basie Library)
Woodchopper’s Ball Woody Herman
Bedtime for Drums Alyn Ainsworth
Begin The Beguine Artie Shaw
You Made me Love You Harry James
Bugle Call Rag Benny Goodman
Sing, Sing, Sing Benny Goodman
Manhattan Spiritual Ted Heath
Swingin’ Shepherd Blues Ted Heath
In a Sentimental Mood Duke Ellington
Mood Indigo Duke Ellington