Glosjazz - live music

Big Bands - swing and jazz bands

in Gloucestershire

information on Big Bands and Small Bands available to hire for your Wedding, Anniversary, Birthday Party, Corporate or Charity event. Areas covered - Cheltenham ,Cirencester, Gloucester, Stroud, Tewkesbury, the Cotswolds, Forest of Dean, Avon, Hereford, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Bristol the Midlands, Southwest and beyond.

Tony Sheppard

tony@glosjazz.com

tel 01452 714287

Ain't Misbehavin' swing and Jazz Duo

Crescendo Big Band

Danzon. Latin band

Jay Cee Big Band

The Big Swing Band

Metz Big Band

JJ Swingband

The Little Big Band (Based in Leeds)

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maintained by Tony Sheppard, Musical Director for The CRESCENDO Big Band, Ain't Misbehavin' jazz duo, Danzon Latin band and the Jay Cee Big Band.

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.

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Text Box: Showboat night! August 28th After dinner, the lights go down as Ain’t Misbehavin’ strike up. Sit back and relish the intimate atmosphere, exquisite vocals and foot-tapping tempo. The live show goes on through until 11pm. Guests for this Showboat Dinner Dance can be sure of a great evening of food, drink and entertainment.

The Oliver Cromwell at her mooring in Gloucester Docks. Entertainment Venue for Show boat nights with Ain't Misbehavin'

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 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

The Big Swing Band

M.D. Andrew Loveridge

Full big band line up of Professional and semi pro musicians playing for concerts and Dances.. All your favourite big band numbers !

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,

JJ Swingband

M.D. John Jones

Big band, small band, Dixie band .

Based in Cirencester.

The Little Big Band (Based in Leeds)

The band plays a variety of swing music from the Big Band era

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. and the Too Hot To Handle Rock 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 and pit orchestras were also a source of income. He is a bit vague on dates etc. (well it was the sixties !)

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.