Big Bands - swing and jazz bands in Gloucestershire

information on Gloucestershire Big Bands ,Small Bands, Jazz bands, Swing bands available to hire for your Wedding, Anniversary, Birthday Party, Corporate or Charity event. Special live music show for Pubs Areas covered - Cheltenham ,Cirencester, Gloucester, Stroud, Tewkesbury, Cotswolds, Forest of Dean, Avon, Herefordshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Bristol, the Midlands, Southwest

Tony Sheppard Musician , Gloucestershire

tony@glosjazz.com

tel 01452 714287

maintained by Tony Sheppard, Musical Director

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Ain't Misbehavin' Swing and Jazz

perfect small band for

Corporate events, Weddings, Anniversaries, Hotels Restaurants and Pubs

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Ain't Misbehavin’ Swing and Jazz band

Ain't Misbehavin' is the perfect small Jazz group for Weddings, Anniversaries, Corporate functions, Private parties, Hotels, Pubs and Restaurants.
This versatile band can play anything from cool swinging background music to funky up tempo numbers for dancing.
TWO MUSICIANS SOUNDING LIKE MORE ! Great to listen to , entertaining to watch.
.Diane Atkinson. - tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute, clarinet and vocals

Tony Sheppard. - keyboards, trombone and vocals

For full information visit the Ain’t Misbehavin’ Website www.tonyjazz.com

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Crescendo Big Band

directed by Tony Sheppard

Professional swinging 18 piece band with vocalists , playing the best of music from the big band repertoire., past and present. Monthly concerts . Available for dances and concerts. Book well in advance! Visit the website for more info.

Website www.crescendoband.co.uk

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Text Box: Sunday May 26th. 8pm Gupshill Manor Gloucester Road Tewkesbury GL20 5SG CRESCENDO Big Band an evening of swinging music entertainment Admission on the door £9 Doors open 7pm music from 8pm

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GLOSJAZZ SWING BAND

On Saturday July 13th. 2013

at THE MILL HOUSE COLN ST. ALDWYNS

(by kind permission of Earl St.Aldwyn )

Some of the top musicians from the

Crescendo Big Band, AJL Show Band, The Jay Cee Band and Ain’t Misbehavin’ Swing band , join forces to present an evening of swinging music entertainment in aid of FAIRFORD HOSPITAL

The concert programme will contain swing and standard favourites by Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald , Frank Sinatra and others and will feature

Tony Sheppard, Andy Loveridge, Jo Stimpson , Diane Atkinson.

Just listen or Dance !

Bring your own picnic and something to sit on.

Admission on the gate £10 Gates open 5:30

music from 6:30pm

About Tony Sheppard
Tony plays Keyboards, Vocals and Trombone with Ain't Misbehavin' Jazz Duo, and is Musical director for the Crescendo Big Band, and the Jay Cee Big Band.
Spent some years in the sixties with his own band —The Quay Street Jazzmen , then later he joined The Delta Jazzmen- Some Radio and TV shows with them . Then as an itinerant trombonist appeared at various London Jazz venues including the Marquee Club , Ken Colyers 100 Oxford Street and clubs around all over the UK. . He was in a backing band (The Big Soul Band) which accompanied star jazz players amongst whom were Tubby Hayes, Pete King. Dance bands, pit orchestras and even a circus band were also a source of income. He is a bit vague on dates etc. (well it was the sixties !)

Took up teaching in the seventies when 3 children arrived and a more reliable income stream was needed , but continued to gig at every opportunity

He was Musical Director for Gloucestershire Youth Jazz Orchestra (GYJO) for 24 years, and Head of Brass tuition for Gloucestershire Music Service. Left teaching in 2004 to concentrate on his own musical activities.

Played keyboards and trombone for Crescendo Big band and was appointed Musical director for the band in 2008.

Cheltenham International Jazz Festival accessed Tony's years of experience as a professional musician and educator for their much acclaimed 2005 'ON THE SLIDE' trombone project. For this, Tony wrote the course music, taught the students with a team of trombonists worked closely with the Jazz trombonist Dennis Rollins. 40 students aged 11-16 learned to play the trombone 'from scratch', performing with Dennis and Tony in the 2005 Cheltenham Jazz Festival.