| Description | Price |
| Saxophone and piano duo up to 2 x 45 minute sets | £200 |
Welcome to the musical world of David and Elliot, a tenor saxophone and piano jazz duo whose passion for jazz brings a unique and vibrant sound to every performance with a repertoire that spans bebop to Beyoncé.
Recent performances include the Upton Jazz Festival and a five day residency playing in the foyer of Malvern Theatres. We have played in pubs, restaurants and for social gatherings.
Add sophistication and sparkle to your event with classic jazz standards and inventive re-interpretations of pop favourites.
Based in Malvern, Worcestershire
= areas covered (up to 70 miles)
= free travel (up to 50 miles)
A wide range of songs from the American Songbook and jazz and pop standards.
Jazz Standards:
After You’ve Gone — music Turner Layton; lyrics Henry Creamer
Ain’t Misbehavin’ — music Fats Waller & Harry Brooks; lyrics Andy Razaf
Alfie — music Burt Bacharach; lyrics Hal David
All of Me — Gerald Marks & Seymour Simons
All The Things You Are — music Jerome Kern; lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II
Almost Like Being In Love — music Frederick Loewe; lyrics Alan Jay Lerner
Anthropology — Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Autumn Leaves — music Joseph Kosma; lyrics Jacques Prévert (Fr.), Johnny Mercer (Eng.)
Bernie’s Tune — Bernie Miller (lyrics later by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller)
Blue Bossa — Kenny Dorham
Blue Skies — Irving Berlin
Blues for Alice — Charlie Parker
Broadway — Billy Bird, Teddy McRae & Henri Woode
Dat Dere — Bobby Timmons (lyrics later by Oscar Brown Jr.)
Doxy — Sonny Rollins
Fly Me to the Moon — Bart Howard
Four — Miles Davis (often also attributed to Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson)
Harlem Nocturne — Earle Hagen & Dick Rogers
How Deep is the Ocean — Irving Berlin
How High the Moon — music Morgan Lewis; lyrics Nancy Hamilton
I Got Rhythm — music George Gershwin; lyrics Ira Gershwin
Killer Joe — Benny Golson
Lady Bird — Tadd Dameron
Lester Leaps In — Lester Young
Lover Man — Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez & Jimmy Sherman
Moanin’ — Bobby Timmons (lyrics later by Jon Hendricks)
Monsters Inc — Randy Newman
My Funny Valentine — music Richard Rodgers; lyrics Lorenz Hart
Nature Boy — eden ahbez
Now’s the Time — Charlie Parker
Ornithology — Charlie Parker & Benny Harris
Over the Rainbow — music Harold Arlen; lyrics E.Y. “Yip” Harburg
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps — music Osvaldo Farrés (“Quizás, quizás, quizás”); English lyrics Joe Davis
Pure Imagination — Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley
Recorda Me — Joe Henderson
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise — music Sigmund Romberg; lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II
Solar — Miles Davis
Some Day My Prince Will Come — music Frank Churchill; lyrics Larry Morey
St Thomas — Sonny Rollins (based on a traditional melody)
Summertime — music George Gershwin; lyrics DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin
Sway — music Pablo Beltrán Ruiz (“Quién será”); English lyrics Norman Gimbel
Take the A Train — Billy Strayhorn
The Lady is a Tramp — music Richard Rodgers; lyrics Lorenz Hart
The Nearness of You — music Hoagy Carmichael; lyrics Ned Washington
Watch What Happens — music Michel Legrand; lyrics Jacques Demy (Fr.), Norman Gimbel (Eng.)
Watermelon Man — Herbie Hancock
Wave — Antônio Carlos Jobim
When You Wish Upon a Star — music Leigh Harline; lyrics Ned Washington
Work Song — Nat Adderley (lyrics later by Oscar Brown Jr.)
Yardbird Suite — Charlie Parker
You Don’t Know What Love Is — music Gene de Paul; lyrics Don Raye
Pop
Alone Again Naturally — Gilbert O’Sullivan
Just the Two of Us — Bill Withers, Ralph MacDonald & William Salter
Love on Top — Beyoncé Knowles, Terius “The-Dream” Nash & Shea Taylor
She’s Not There — Rod Argent
Sunny — Bobby Hebb
When She Loved Me — Randy Newman
Yesterday — John Lennon & Paul McCartney
You’ve Got a Friend in Me — Randy Newman
A performance space of 2 x 3 m is required as well as one power socket.
We provide a full PA system, we are currently unable to provide any lighting.
Please let us know if parking available at the venue and where we can unload equipment from.
We are able to play music from Spotify in between sets.
Upton Jazz festival fringe at the Tudor House museum
Malvern Festival Theatre for five evenings in the foyer
Sta n Getz and Oscar Peterson, swinging melodic jazz at its best. All the Things You Are, or any number of songs from the American songbook.
As a duo we have played for 18 months, individually in other contexts for many years
Private functions, parties receptions etc
Set up 20mins.
Performance 2 sets of 45 mins, we are happy to play more or less.
Yes, we can play without a power supply if necessary as we have battery power for the keyboard. Weather permitting of course.
We obviously have a set repertoire but are able to take a small number of requests from the standard jazz repertoire
Chilled and relaxed music
A wide range of music of various types, interpreted in an easy listening jazz idiom.
Malvern Festival theatres
Upton Jazz Festival
Red Lion Cradley
Yew Tree Colwall
Red Lion Huntley
Ludlow's Hair salon, Colwall
The Alma, Linton
Jelly Roll Cafe, Tewkesbury
Malvern Theatres
Tudor House Museum, Upton Upon Severn
Red Lion Cradley
Yew Tree Colwall
Red Lion Huntley
Ludlow's Hair salon, Colwall
Jelly Roll Cafe, Tewkesbury
The Alma, Linton
Wedding
Birthday Party
Private Event
Corporate Event
Hotel / Restaurant Event
Bar / Venue Event
Charity Event
Theatre Show
New Year's Eve
Jazz
Cabaret
Latin Jazz
Swing
Instrumental