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About Alastair

Create the perfect atmosphere. Experienced professional sax player who plays jazz, soul, pop and Ibiza style dance.

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Saxophonist

Manchester

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Alastair brings romantic music for your wedding ceremony and drinks reception. He has been performing full time for over ten years at weddings, corporate events, bars clubs and private parties. He has a wealth of experience and is always committed to making the client's event run smoothly and have exactly the right atmosphere.

Alastair

5 out of 5

102 verified reviews

Satisfaction

5.0

Professionalism

5.0

Communication

5.0

Punctuality

5.0

Alastair's Reviews

4.5 out of 5

Alastair really got the party going with his performance, everyone loved it! Highly recommend.

5 out of 5

Alastair arrived when he said he would, played effortlessly along side the DJ and brought major party vibes. Everyone said how good he was and how it got us all up dancing. Would 100% recommend. Thank you

5 out of 5

We made a short notice booking with Alistair to play the Sax at our work christmas party, he was very responsive in sorting our booking. He is clearly very talented and our staff thoroughly enjoyed dancing along to him playing, would book again! - Thanks so much

5 out of 5

Very good sac player he made our wedding night so much better everybody was dancing , very talented and definitely will recommend to family and friends , thank you so much

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We absolutely loved having Alastair at our wedding, he even played with the DJ for our first dance which for me was just perfect! He played everything we asked him to and nothing was too much trouble. If you are looking for something special for your wedding reception then I would highly recommend Alastair! :)

Everyone thought Alastair's saxophone performance was great, he made the afternoon and I will definitely hire him again, many thanks.

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16 February 2018

I have performed with Alastair regularly. He is a top professional and is everything a gigging musician should be. Prompt, Talented, Well dressed, Experienced, Extensive repertoire and reads the room perfectly.

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2nd most booked musician of 2023!

3rd most booked musician of 2021!

Top 10 booked musician of 2022

Most booked in region, 2023

Most booked in region, 2022

Lightning fast responses

Average response time under 2 hours

100 gigs

Legendary: 100 bookings through Encore!

Saved the day!

Booked for an Encore gig with less than 24 hours’ notice

7th Anniversary

This act has been working with Encore for over 7 years

Member of the Encore community forum

Alastair's Song list

Al Grant Repertoire List

Pop/Soul arrangements:

Ain’t No Mountain high Enough – Diana Ross Marvin Gaye

Ain’t No Stopping Us Now

Ain’t No sunshine – Bill Withers

All Night Long – Lionel Richie

All of Me – John Legend

All You Need Is Love – Beatles

Always There - Incognito

A Million Love Songs – Take That

As – Stevie Wonder

At Last – Sarah Vaughan

A Thousand Years – Cristina Perri

Avalon – Roxy Music

A Whole New World – Disney

Back At One – Brian McKnight

Baker Street –Gerry Rafferty

Beautiful – Christina Aguilerra

Better Together – Jack Johnson

Black And Gold

Blame It On The Boogie – Michael Jackson

Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and

Garfunkel

Bring It On Home To Me – Sam Cooke

California Dreaming – Sia

Can you Feel It – Jacksons

Can’t Get You Out Of My Head – Kylie

Can’t Help Myself – Four Tops

Can’t Take My Eyes off of You – Andy Williams

Celebration – Kool and the Gang

Cheerleader - Omi

Come Away With Me – Norah Jones

Could It Be I’m Falling In Love – The Spinners

Crazy For You - Madonna

Crazy Love – Van Morrison

Cry Me A River – Julie London

Dance Monkey – Tones and I

Dance The Night Away – The Mavericks

Danving In The Moonlight - Toploader

Dancing In The Street – Martha Reeves

Déjà vu – Beyonce

Despacito –Daddy Fonsi

Dock Of The Bay – Otis Redding

Domino – Jessie J

Don’t Know Why – Norah Jones

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely tonight – James Taylor

Don’t Start Now – Dua Lipa

Don’t Worry Be Happy – Bobby McFerrin

Don’t You worry ‘Bout A Thing – Stevie Wonder

Downtown Train – Rod Stewart

Easy – The Commodores

Everything – Michael Buble

Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac

Falling – Alicia Keys

Family Affair – Mary J Blige

Fantasy – EWF

Feel Like Making Love

Fields of Gold – Sting

Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover – Paul Simon

First Cut Is The Deepest – Rod Stewart

First, Last, Everything –Barry White

Forget You – Cee Lo Green

For once in My Life – Stevie Wonder

From This Moment on – Shania Twain

Get Lucky – Daft Punk

Green Onions – Booker T

Groove Jet – Spiller

Hallelujah I Just Love Her So – Ray Charles

Happy – Pharrell

Havana – Camilla Cabello

Have I Told You Lately – Van Morrison

Heaven – Bryan Adams

Hey Laura – Gregory Porter

Higher Love (Acoustic) – Stevie Winwood

Higher and Higher – Jackie Wilson

How Deep Is Your Love – Bee Gees

How Sweet It Is – James Taylor

How Does a Moment Last Forever? – Beauty and the Beast

How Long Will I Love You – Ellie Goulding

Human Nature – Michael Jackson

If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys

I Can’t Help Fallling In Love – Elvis

I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing – Aerosmith

I got you – Duke Dumont

I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye

I’ll Be There – Jackson Five

I’ll Never Fall In Love Again – Dionne Warwick

I Just Wanna Make Love To You – Etta James

I’m a Believer – Neil Diamond/ the Monkees

In Crowd – Georgie Fame

I want you back – Jackson 5

I’m Every Woman – Chaka Khan

I’m Yours – Jason Mraz

I’ll Never Fall In Love Again – Dionne Warwick

I Will Always Love You – Witney Houston

I Wish – Stevie Wonder

I Won’t Give Up – Jason Mraz

Jealous Guy – Bryan Ferry

Jubel – Klingande

Just The Two Of Us – Bill Withers

Just the way you are – Billy Joel

Just You and I – Tom Walker

Kiss -- Prince

Kissing you - Desree

Knock On Wood – Eddie Floyd

Lady - Modjo

Latch - Sam Smith

Lean On Me – Bill Withers

Let It Be – Gregory Porter

Let’s Stay Together – Al Green

Like A Star – Corinne Bailey Rae

Liquid Spirit – Gregory Porter

Long train running – Doobie Brothers

Love On Top - Beyonce

Lovely Day – Bill Withers

Love You Like I Do – Ellie Goulding

Lover – Taylor Swift

Loving You – Minnie Ripperton

Maneater – Hall and Oates

Marry You – Bruno Mars

Me And Mrs Jones – Billly Paul

Moves Like Jagger – Maroon 5

Mr Bojangles – Robbie Williams

Mrs Robinson – Simon and Garfunkel

Murder On The Dance Floor – Sophie Ellis Bextor

Music sounds Better - Stardust

My Girl - The Four Tops

My Guy – Mary Wells

My Way – Frank Sinatra

Natural Woman – Aretha Franklin

Next To Me – Emile Sande

Never Enough – Greatest Showman

Never Too Much – Luther Vandross

Nobody does It Better – Carly Simon

Nothing Compares 2 You – Sinead O’Connor

One Day I’ll fly Away – Randy Crawford

One Kiss – Dua Lipa

One More Time – Daft Punk

Perfect Day – Lou Reed

Perfect Strangers – Jonas Blue

People get Ready – Bob Dylan

Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae

Rather Be – Clean Bandit

Reach Out – Four Tops

Real Love – Clean Bandit

Rock With You – Michael Jackson

Rolling In The Deep – Adele

September - Earth Wind and Fire

September Song – JP Cooper

Shallow – Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper

She’s Gone – Hall And Oates

She’s Out Of My Life – Michael Jackson

Signed Sealed Delivered – Stevie Wonder

Sing It Back – Moloko

Skateaway – Dire Straits

Someone Like You – Van Morrison

Something Inside So Strong – Labi Siffre

Son Of A Preacher Man – Dusty Springfield

Sorry - Justin Bieber

Stand By Me – Ben E King

Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon

Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2

Shape of you – Ed Sheeran

Sunny – Bobby Hebb

Starlight – Superman Lovers

Stay With Me – Sam Smith

Superstition – Stevie Wonder

Sway – Michael Buble

Sweetest Feeling – Jackie Wilson

Take Another Piece Of My Heart – Erma Franklin

Tear Drops – Womack and Womack

Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson

Tears In Heaven – Eric Clapton

That old Devil Called Love – Alison Moyet

The Scientist – Coldplay (Acoustic)

The way you make me feel – Michael Jackson

Thinking Of You – Sister Sledge

Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran

This old Heart Of Mine – Isley Brothers

Three Little Birds – Bob Marley

This Girl - Kungs

Time After Time – Cindi Lauper

To Make You Feel My Love – Adele

Treasure – Bruno Mars

Trouble – Ray Lamontagne

True Colours – Cyndi Lauper

Unwritten – Natasha Beddingfield

Uptown Funk – Bruno Mars

Use Somebody (acoustic) – Kings of Leon

Valerie – Amy Winehouse

Waiting in Vain – Bob Marley

Wake Me Up - Aviici

Walk On By – Bacharach and David

Walk Of Life – Dire Straits

We Are Family – Sister Sledge

What you won’t do for love – Bobby Caldwell

Why do Fools fall In Love – Diana Ross

Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton

You Do Something To Me – Paul Weller

You Gotta Be – Desree

You Send Me – Gregory Porter

You’re just too Good To Be True – Frankie Valli

Your Song – Elton John

You’re Still The One – Shania Twain

You’ve Got a Friend – James Taylor

Acoustic/Chilled Arrangments:

Ain’t Nobody – Chaka Khan

Back To Black – Amy Winehouse

Can’t Help Falling in Love With You – Elvis Presley

Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol

Cheerleader – Omi

Dance Monkey – Tones and I

Dancing Queen - Abba

Despacito – Daddy Fonsi

Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen

Fast Car – Tracy Chapman

Fix You – Coldplay

Have I Told You Lately – Van Morrison

Higher Love – Stevie Winwood

How Long Will I Love You – Ellie Goulding

I Get To Love You - Ruelle

If I Ain’t got You – Alicia Keys

I Love Me Better - Lauv

Just the Way You Are – Bruno Mars

Kiss the Girl – Little Mermaid

Latch – Sam Smith

La Vie En rose - Standard

Love Me Like Like You Do – Ellie Goulding

Lover – Taylor Swift

Marry Me – Train

Never Enough – Greatest Showman

Ocean Eyes – Billie Eilish

One Kiss – Dua Lipa

Perfect – Ed Sheeran

Perfect Strangers – Jonas Blue/JP Cooper

Price Tag – Jessie J

Rather Be – Clean Bandit

Shape of You – Ed Sheeran

Sorry – Justin Bieber

Stand By Me – Ben E King

Stay With Me – Sam Smith

Tale As old As time – Ariana Grande and John Legend

Tenerife Sea – Ed Sheeran

The One - Kodaline

Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran

Use Somebody – Kings of Leon

Valerie – Chilled version

Waves (acoustic) – Mr Probz

You are the Reason – Calum Scott

Postmodern Jukebox jazz style arrangements:

Africa –Toto

All About That Bass – Megan Traynor

American Boy – Estelle

Bad Guy – Billie Eilish

Black and Gold – Sam Sparro

Blame it on the boogie – Michael Jackson

Crazy in Love - Beyonce

Every Breath You Take – Police

Footloose

Frontin’ _Pharrel

Get Lucky – Daft Punk

Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye

I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor

Kiss - Prince

Like a prayer - Madonna

More than words - Extreme

Mr Brightside - Killers

Seven Nation Army – White Stripes

Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel

Jazz arrangements:

A Foggy Day

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Fats Waller

All Blues – Miles Davis

All The Things You Are – Jerome Kern

American Boy - Estelle

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – Maschwitz andSherwin

As Time Goes By – Porter

At Last -

Autumn Leaves – Johnny Mercer

Black Orpheus

Blue Bossa – Kenny Dorham

Blue Moon

Body And Soul – Johnny Green

Bye Bye Blackbird

Can’t get you out of my head – Kylie

Minogue

Caravan - Basie

Crazy in love - Beyonce

Desafinado – Jobim

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore – Duke Ellington

Fever – Peggy Lee

Fly Me to the Moon – Bart Howard

Frontin’ – Jamie Cullum/Pharrell

Georgia – Hoagy Carmichael

Girl From Ipanema – Jobim

Have You Met Miss Jones – Rogers and

Hart

Heard It Through The Grapevine

I Get a Kick Out Of You – Cole Porter

In a Sentimental Mood – Duke Ellington

It Had To Be You – Isham Jones

I Wish I Knew How – Billy Taylor

La Vie En Rose

Lady Is A Tramp – Rodger and Hart

Let’s Fall In Love – Harold Arlen

Love Me Or Leave Me – Nina Simone

Mas Que Nada

Mack The Knife

Mercy Mercy Mercy – Cannonball Adderley

Misty – Errol Garner

Moondance – Van Morrison

My Baby Just Cares for Me - Simone

My Funny Valentine – Rodger and Hart

Night and Day – Cole Porter

No Moon At All – Evans and Mann

Somewhere Over The Rainbow – Arlen

Song For My Father – Horace Silver

Stars Fell On Alabama – Frank Perkins

Stormy Monday - Walker

St Thomas – Sonny Rollins

Summertime – Gershwin

Sunny Side Of The Street – Fields and McHugh

Stranger on the shore – Acker Bilk

Sway

That Ole Devil Called Love – Alison Moyet

These Foolish Things – Strachey & Link

The Nearness of You

The Way You Look Tonight – Jerome Kern

They Can’t Take That Away From Me –

Gershwin

This Masquerade – George Benson

Under My Skin - Sinatra

What a difference a Day Made – Stanley

Adams

What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life – Stevie Wonder

Musicianship

Genres:

Pop, Contemporary Christian, Electronic, Breakbeat, Deep house, Drum 'n' Bass, Garage, House, Jungle, Techno, 1940s era music, 1950s era music, 1960s era music, 1970s era music, 1980s era music, 1990s era music, Jazz, Blues, Swing, Latin jazz, Easy listening, Light music, Covers, Disco, Funk, R&B, Motown, Soul, Top 40, Ibiza club, Triphop, EDM, Electro-Swing, Electronica, Dubstep, Ambient, Jazz fusion, Postmodern jukebox jazz, Gospel, Modern jazz, Cabaret, Traditional church music, Christmas, Afrobeat, Bhangra, Bollywood, Bossa nova, Indian music, Latin, Ska, South Asian fusion, South Asian music

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Instruments:

Saxophone, Alto saxophone, Tenor saxophone

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Event types:

Wedding, Wedding proposal, Church service, Hotel / Restaurant event, Bar / Club / Venue event, Private event, Corporate event, Charity event, Recording session, Birthday party, Christmas party

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Other skills:

Fluent improviser

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