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Bob Boyd Sounds
Instrumentation: Piano, bass, drums, trumpet, male vocals with harmony With the renewal of interest in music of the Swing and Big Band Era, The Bob Boyd Sounds are having the time of their lives playing and singing songs from the thirties through the nineties. Word has gotten around that these four guys will knock you out when they play music of the big bands. All four of them sing, solo and in harmony, music from Sinatra, the Four Freshmen and the Modernaires to Stevie Wonder! They play smooth, listenable jazz, if you can manage to keep your feet still. But when they play, unlike much modern/improvisational jazz, you can always recognize the melody! David Higginbotham’s lyrical bass playing (he plays both the old-style standup bass fiddle and an Alembic Fretless Electric Bass) and his beautiful tenor voice provide the lead for many of their songs, whether they are punching out an Ellington tune or a lovely ballad like A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square or an old blues tune from Otis Redding. Drummer extraordinaire Randy McDonald sings background harmony, occasionally taking the lead for a mean country ballad or lively pop tune; Randy also plays piano and bass and is a recording engineer. Pat Henry on trumpet, valve trombone and fleugelhorn, also plays piano, bass, drums and other instruments. You'll enjoy his beautiful, graceful trumpet work on Tenderly, his sensitive vocal on How Insensitive, or his realistic impressions of Louis Armstrong’s trumpet and vocals. Bob Boyd, who classifies himself as a "piano stylist" rather than a jazz pianist, plays a variety of piano styles and enjoys singing, too. Partial Songlist - a sampling of the more than 10,000 tunes they know
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