The Lorraine Jones Quartet Ex Pro / Record Label - Smooth Jazz Quartet

One mains plug hole.

We have state-of-the-art equipment, vintage instruments, and a 1000w PA system with fold-back.

We do bring some lights from time to time but we find we don’t really need them to add to our performance.

Where it is and what time you want us on!

We can provide music for you before we go on, during our break and afterwards. Or you can plug your playlist into our PA system.

Best gig ever:
A Moulin Rouge night at Birmingham College of Art in 1975 - unforgettable audience!

Best Venues:
Town Halls, Universities, big-stage Festivals, iconic rock venues across Europe - see a list later in these FAQs.

Most influenced by :
Sinatra, Ella, Sarah Vaughn, Chet Baker, Oscar Peterson, Diana Krall, Monk, Miles, Basie, Bill Evans, Dave Green, Martin Drew, the MJQ, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, Harry Conick Jnr, etc., etc.,

Favourite:
Frédéric Chopin

Greatest Song of All Time:
Daft question … “When Father Papered the Parlour You Couldn’t See Him for Paste” ?

Two of us started gigging when we were 14.

As for our gigging experience since then, see previous answers. We’ve ALWAYS gigged. Collectively we’ve been gigging for over 200 years 🤣

These days our favourite bookings are private parties, celebrations in village halls, summer garden parties, dinner & dance events, beer festivals outside bucolic pubs.

Best to look at our song list. We mean songs from the American Song Book played smoothly to make people dance - NOT blast be-bop.

We don’t set performance times. You’re the customer. You tell us performance times.

Most clients want two sets of between 45 minutes to an hour each; but we are flexible.

Yes we are used to playing outside. In recent previous bands we’ve played:

- at people’s garden parties during the summer, many times,

- at opulent weddings in the grounds of Jacobean mansion houses

- at small parties in tiny back yards (which tend to be more fun!)

Last year in a previous band, some for us were directed to a random field on the South Downs to play at a Travellers’ wedding - wonderful gig!

We like meeting and entertaining nice people.

We are happy to learn your favourite song for you if it fits. (So, not ‘The Yellow Rose of Texas’.)

What folk have said most about bands we have played in recently is that we are excellent players and how much we sound like all the different artists we cover.

Below is a sample of a few our many reviews for previous bands we’ve been in:-

“Fabulous musicians. Lovely singer. I cannot recommend them highly enough.”

“Outstanding players and great vocals”

“What a band! Outstanding musicians playing songs that we all knew. Right from the very beginning people were up and dancing right up to the last encore.”

“Fab song choices. Incredible musicians”

“Really friendly people who played all the classics, and even welcomed my dad up to play the drums. Everyone had a lovely evening, would definitely book them again”

“ …. they were brilliant musicians one and all and kept everyone dancing until well after midnight. We were AMAZED at what we paid for what we got”