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Eastern Straynotes
Overview
- A light jazz fun band.
- Great little trio playing popular jazz from the thirties taking in acts as diverse as Django Reinhardt, Fats Waller and George Gershwin
- Trio as standard and can reduce to a duo or expand to a 4 or 5 piece
The band are based in Norwich and frequently travel around East Anglia and will travel further afield if required.
Have a Listen
- Everybody loves my baby - Fats Waller
- These foolish things - Eric Maschwitz and Jack Strachey
- Honeysuckle Rose - Fats Waller
- Sweet Sue - Victor Young and Will. J. Harris
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About this Act
The Eastern Straynotes are a three piece band with guitar and vocals, sax and clarinet and double bass. They have many years of experience playing functions, parties and weddings for dancing or background music.
The band has a large selection of toe tapping classics from the early days of jazz which are great to dance to and great for setting the atmosphere as the main band or as background fro drinks receptions and the like.
Set List
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Ellington/Tizol- Caravan
Bechett- Petite Fleur
Jimmy Mchugh- 'Can't Give You Anything But Love
Abreu- Tico Tico
Johnson- Pennies From Heaven
Victor Young- Sweet Sue
Reinhardt- Swing 39
Reinhardt- Minor Swing
Tizol- Perdido
Ellington- It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
Durham- Topsy
Rogers- Favourite Things
Nina Simone-Love Me Or Leave Me
Greshwin- Summertime
Simons And Marks- All Of Me
Bart Howard- Fly Me To The Moon
W.C.Handy- St. Louis Blues
Nat King Cole- Strighten Up And Fly Right
Irving Berlin- Cheek To Cheek
Irving Berlin- Let's Face The Music And Dance
Fats Waller- Ain't Misbehavin'
Fats Waller- Honeysuckle Rose
Strachey And Maschwitz- These Foolish Things
Johnny Mercer- Accentuate The Positive
Ellington And Strayhorn- Satin Doll
Lineup
- Standard line up is the three piece band consisting of guitar & vocals, saxophone or clarinet and double bass
- Duo - guitar/vocals with saxophone/clarinet
- 4 piece band adds drums or another sax, piano or guitar
- 5 piece band adds drums and another instrument such as sax, guitar or piano
This act's standard set times are as follows:
- Two 1 hour sets is the standard but can play three 45 minutes sets with breaks.
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