[chek_m8]

hiya,

i've got a small jazz band here that i'm trying to build. We currently need more horns--saxophonists/trumpetists.

Still working off standards, but will welcome songwriting ideas. Also, once things get more settled, we'll be looking into gigs.

please pm me if you're interested and let me know what your experience is.

[basinstreet]

Hello,

I know this is a bit of a long one but may as well get it out there - you were looking for horns but maybe this will help me!

Would like to know where you play though...Just moved to HK with partner and looking for good jazz venues....

Ta, Sophie

I began singing in 2002 when I joined an adult education jazz group where musicians of all levels and genres went
to play together as a jazz band. My influences from a very young age have
been trad and big band, any Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, the 'Rat Pack’, and
among the many female singers who inspired me the first was Ella Fitzgerald,
then Doris Day, Billy Holiday, Ottilie Patterson, Julia Lee, and many more
I can't remember or don't know the names of, but generally traditional jazz
and standards.

Some of the college group formed a band and we started a
successful (and paid!) regular Sunday night spot at a popular restaurant which was a first for the restaurant and is still going strong
today. During this time I
also sang with an established band for a private function, and did a couple
of gigs at private residences. I joined an amateur 12-piece big band performing both publicly and privately. After a time another band and I
established a regular Sunday lunch gig which is also still going strong today. Apart from the big
band these gigs were with 3, 4, 5 and 6 piece bands as well as myself.

I have had private vocal lessons as well as the coaching from the jazz
group, and in 2004 I attended the annual University of Glamorgan, Wales,
'Glamorgan Jazz' workshop for one week.

In Muscat (2005) I joined a three piece band. We performed on a monthly basis and for special occasions, Friday Brunches
and for private functions in various hotels. I sang with another three-piece band monthly, and we were booked for
charity balls, private
functions and a
corporate party on-board a Dow boat.

I am very keen to start singing again, but it has been a while and ideally I'm looking to find willing musicians (or a pianist) to go through the old repertoire. I have my own microphones (unfortunately no PA here) and music for the
following songs, although this is by no means a list of all the songs I know
and can sing…

music ready for the following songs

1. Ain't Misbehavin'
2. April In Paris
3. I'm Beginning to See the Light
4. Black Coffee
5. Blue Skies
6. Body & Soul
7. I Can't Give you Anything But Love
8. Embraceable You
9. Frim Fram Sauce
10. A Foggy Day
11. A Fine Romance
12. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
13 It's Delovely
14. It Had to be You
15. In a Mellow Tone
16. Just One of Those Things
17. Misty
18. Night & Day
19. The Nearness of You
20. Our Love is Here To Stay
21. Paper Moon
22. Pennies From Heaven
23. Stardust
24. Satin Doll
25. Stars Fell on Alabama
26. Shiny Stockings
27. Tea For Two
28. They Can't Take That Away From Me
29. The Way You Look Tonight
30. Undecided
31. With a Song In My Heart
32. What is This Thing Called Love?
33. Witchcraft
34. You Do Something To Me