Jazz Swing

Top Shelf Jazz

Fine Purveyors of Filthy Swing!

Direct from Lucifer’s drinks cabinet: a band whose original tunes are so distinctive and licentious that they spawned their own delectable style: ‘Filthy Swing’.  Devout fans know the ‘Jazz Age’ never finished and that Gatsby lives on! Their inimitable style and hot music will drive you to wild abandon.  Available for funerals, bar brawls and children’s parties.  Silly hats, ‘liberal’ attitudes and songs of the high life in low places – the authors and the last word in ‘Filthy Swing’.  Welcome to the gilded gutter of Top Shelf Jazz!

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The Magic Number

The Magic Number specialise in Gipsy Jazz Swing based songs and perform regularly around the country as everything from a duo up to a full six/ seven piece band.

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Swing Zazou

Live Electro Swing
New Electro Swing dance band Swing Zazou collide vintage 30’s & 40’s big band and Gypsy Swing with live-mixed beats - a foot-stomping recipe of soaring hot-swingin' licks, driving swing-scat vocals, and vintage harmonies that creates the fully-charged and irresistible sound of live Electro Swing.
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Magdalena Reising and the Blue Cafe Trio

 Scottish/Polish singer and harpist Magdalena Reising couples haunting vocals with the sophisticated jazz of The Blue Cafe Trio. Magdalena casts a spell with every performance with arrangements of Rabbie Burns and the poems of celebrated Polish poet, Galsinski reinterpreted in a jazz folk setting as well as other great classics given a fresh twist. 
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The Brass Panhandlers

Dirty dixie Swing for a new generation. Busking, stages, small tent, big stage, this is Nu Dixie, Brass Attack, Lips and Lungs, Banjo-tastic music which, like a New Orleans sexy party gone wrong, will make you smile regardless of who or where you are.

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Boogie Woogie Troop

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Influenced by the New Orleans piano sounds of Dr John, Professor Longhair, and James Booker the Boogie Woogie Troop boogie, swing and shuffle their way along, breaking off into rock and roll classics and the odd rag too.

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Sara Oschlag

Jazz band fronted by vocalist Sara Oschlag who has worked with such names as: ex-Billie Holiday trumpeter Joe Hunter, Ian Price (Thomas Clausen) and Julian Nicholas (Loose Tube)
” A unique and individual voice making interesting material effortlessly her own.” Claire Martin – British Jazz Awards best vocalist five times winner
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The Burlettes

Influenced by classic trios such as The Andrews Sisters and The Mcguire sisters, The Burlettes mix vintage glamour with a contemporary flavour and frisky forties tunes with delicious costumes and tight musicianship. These feisty girls will whisk you back to the days of the jitterbug and Uncle Sam with all that is fabulous about our world’s wartime musical legacy.

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Katya Gorrie

“Jazz Vocals with Juice!” Sean Ormond, Vivante Magazine

American vocalist, composer and performer Katya Gorrie now lives in the UK. She and her quartet have toured throughout Canada, the US, and Europe, performing at Jazz festivals, clubs and theatres to enthusiastic audiences.

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Belleville

 The Hot Club of Belleville creates an atmosphere that conjures up the steamy Swing clubs of the 1920’s and 1930’s and the Prohibition era Speakeasy, through sultry vintage songs, scat vocals, wild instrumental improvisation and that intoxicating Swing rhythm. Thrown into the mix are driving Eastern European Gypsy polkas and waltzes, and contemporary classics played in a ‘Gypsy Swing’ style. They are at their best when getting audiences on their feet and dancing the night away. 
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Captain Redeye and the Hoods

 Captain Redeye and the Hoods is a jumpin’, jivin’ and wailin’ nine-piece gangster swing band - playing an upbeat mix of jump-jazz from the 1940s and 50s alongside big-band classics and hits from the modern swing revival, all with a dash of Latin and Calypso thrown in for good measure.
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1911 RAGTIME BAND

Dressed in victorian garb this fabulous band plays music from the the swinging 20’s, 30’s and 40’s mostly in a traditional New Orleans style. Including dance numbers like the Charleston, The Cake Walk, The Lambeth Walk, along with lots of comedy songs and music that goes Ooom-Pah Ooom-Pah they are a perfect band for a garden party or reception. Think walks along the prom, cricket on the village green, the launch of the new railway line, or high tea at four o’clock. Being free from the bind of electricity the trio can play anywhere, yet are loud enough for the sound to carry in an outside venue.

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EARL OKIN

Based in London, Earl Okin is one of the world's finest Jazz and Bossa Nova singers, accompanying himself on guitar or piano as is most appropriate. He is also a fine songwriter in the classic mould and last, but not least, is renowned for his 'vocal trumpet' solos...in the tradition of the Mills Bros. He has performed at major venues around the world from The Royal Albert Hall in London to the Apollo Theatre in New York as well as Jazz clubs from Birdland (New York) to Ronnie Scott's (London), L'Archiduc (Brussels) and International jazz festivals everywhere. Last but not least, he has entertained Queen Elizabeth II, The King & Queen of Sweden and many celebrities and performed at corporate events too numerous to detail.

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Champagne Swing

A band with a real continental sound: Music inspired by the great recordings of Django Reindhardt. Champagne Swing play a selection of swinging jazz standards, traditional gypsy folk tunes, french musette, walzes and bossanovas, creating the relaxed atmosphere of a French Cafe on a hot summers afternoon. Perfect for garden parties, wedding drinks receptions and corporate occasions.

Ideal as a quartet, but may also perform as a trio.

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Jive Aces

The Jive Aces are the UK’s top Jive & Swing band. Together for over a decade, this extremely popular six piece group have performed at thousands of festivals, theatres and events throughout the UK, Europe and USA, as well as Japan, Israel and the Caribbean, 30 countries in all. The Jive Aces are renowned for their high energy Jump Jive music (the exciting sound where Swing meets Rock ‘n Roll) & spectacular stage show. 

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Tony Lewis Band

Tony Lewis is a Perrier award nominated Jazz vocalist, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. With over 20 years’ experience performing at sell-out jazz nights across London and Brighton and counting Sir Paul McCartney and Paul Weller among his admirers, it’s no wonder he’s gained such an impressive reputation in the UK.
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Delilah Dixey and Manservant

Delilah and her mysteriously aquired piano playing manservant present you with a delightfully eccentric musical spectacle of early twentieth century burlesque jazz, blues and music hall. Thinly veiled tales of love, loss, gold digging, disappointing sexual performance and of course, mass murder. What's not to like?

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