Brass Impact Big Band
Overview
- Versatile Big Band playing jazz, funk, soul & swing.
Price Range
Prices range from £1500 to £5000
About
Brass Impact are one of Scotland's most dynamic jazz ensembles, offering a unique presentation of big band jazz that is entirely new, fresh and exciting.
Playing a wide range of music in the style of the ever popular big bands, their main aim is to provide our members and audiences with the opportunity to experience big band like they've never heard it before.
Their horn section, made up of 5 trumpets, 3 mellophones, 1 Tenor Saxophone, and 4 baritones gives them a very unique and exciting sound.
This unique sound comes from the use of non-traditional big band instruments such as 'forward facing' baritones (providing the trombone voice) and the very distinctive mellophones, which produce a sound similar to that of the mellophoniums used by the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the early 1960's.
Mixed cleverly with the more traditional trumpets and saxophones, the baritones and mellophones allow them to add that extra 'kick' to the big swing numbers, as well as a rich, warm and luscious sound for the most delicate of ballads and vocal arrangements.
Their unique brass sound is fused together with the drive and excitement of their 6 piece rhythm section, with the fabulous vocal talents of brother and sister duo, Pat Keating and Iain Ewing adding the finishing touches to their presentation.
Their list of previous clients is a testament to how popular their unique sound has become, they include:
BBC
Disneyland Paris
Royal Navy
Royal Marines
Seamill Hydro
Daily Record
Thistle Hotels
Hilton Hotels
Jools Holland Jam House
Edinburgh International Jazz Festival
City of Derry Jazz Festival
Celtic Football Club
Marie Curie Cancer Care
and many more...
Where are they based?
Based in Glasgow but play regularly throughout Scotland and across the UK.
Sample Set List
All Night Long
All Of Me
All The Way
Aquarius
Bad Bad Leroy Brown
Best Is Yet To Come, The
Beyond The Sea
Birdland
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Boy From Ipanema, The
Candyman
Can't Take My Eyes
Come Fly With Me
Danny Boy
Don't Rain On My Parade
Eli's Comin
Feeling Good
Fever
Foggy Day In London Town, A
Funkathustra
Georgia On My Mind
Gonna Fly Now
Green Onions
Happy Birthday
Have I Told You Lately?
Have You Met Miss Jones
Here's That Rainy Day
Hot Toddy
I Saw Her Standing There
In The Stone
In The Wee Small Hours
Intermission Riff
I've Got You Under My Skin
Lady Is A Tramp, The
Land of Make Believe
Lazy River
Look of Love, The
Mack The Knife
Man I Love, The
Moondance
Mr Bojangles
Native New Yorker
New York, New York
Nicole
Norwegian Wood
Over The Rainbow
Peanut Vendor
Send In The Clowns
Sesame Street
Shadow of Your Smile, The
Somethin Stupid
Spiderman
Strawberry Soup
String of Pearls
Summerwind
Sway
That's Life
This Masquerade
Thousand Kisses Deep
Three Times A Lady
Too Shy To Say
Tuxedo Junction
Watermelon Man
The Way You Look Tonight
What Kind of Fool Am I?
When I Fall In Love
Witchcraft
You Do Something To Me
Your Song
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