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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.    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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for  teachers of   Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute Trumpet , Trombone,

French Horn

Ain't Misbehavin' Swing and Jazz 

perfect small Jazz group for Weddings, Anniversaries, Hotels  Restaurants  and Pubs

Discount offers for Jan/Feb 2012

Crescendo

Big Band

 

Professional  swinging 17 piece band with vocalists.

Danzon.

Latin band

Jay Cee

Big Band

 

Jazz West Midlands

    A site for Jazz Fans in and around the West Midlands

Listings for many jazz venues and events

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need a small band ?

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 and vocals) and

Tony Sheppard. (keyboards, trombone and vocals)  

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

 need a big band ?

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

Jay Cee Big Band

directed by Tony Sheppard

mainly a rehearsal band for serious big band musicians wishing to play more unusual and difficult arrangements...not the usual big band Standards!   Occasional concerts. 

 

Metz Big Band   

M.D.   Matthew Morris

Amateur big band , full line up of enthusiastic players .  Undertake  concerts  often for  charity events. Visit their website

www.metzbigband.co.uk

Need a Latin band?

DANZON  

Latin band , Samba , Salsa, Bossa Nova,

 

 
Text Box: The bands listed on this page are all bands I run, or am directly involved in. Other Gloucestershire bands are listed here. If you are interested in getting your jazz/ swing band listed and can make a reciprocal link please contact me. TONY Text Box: More bands listed—click here Gloucestershire Coat of arms - Porsum Semper - ever forwardFollow tony on Twitter Text Box: Sunday January 29th. 8pm Gupshill Manor Gloucester Road Tewkesbury GL20 5SG CRESCENDO Big Band presents an evening of swinging music entertainment Admission on the door £8 Doors open 7pm music from 8pm

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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.  He also plays trombone for the Big Swing Band.
Spent some years in the sixties with his own band —The Quay Street Jazzmen , then later he joined The Delta Jazzmen. Then as  an itinerant  trombonist appeared  at various London Jazz venues including the Marquee Club , Ken Colyers  and clubs around all over the UK. . He was in a backing 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.