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About MB Big Band
17 piece big band with London's finest players.
Spice Of Life, Posk, Hampton Hub etc.
Once a month in St Margarets, Twickenham.
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Public liability insurance of £10 million
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25 days ago, for a Bar / Club / Venue event in Turks Head
MB Big Band's Song list
MB Big Bnd Tune List
MANY MANY MORE CHARTS ON FILE!!
1 Aja ten
2 Admirals Horn 120b/b
3 Steppin Out
4 Funk City-Ola
5 The Creeper
6 Groovin Hard
7 Channel One Suite
8 Keep The Customer Satisfied
9 Sing Sang Sung
10 The Blues Machine
11 Love Walked In (trom)
12 Straight No Chaser. Open
13 Artistry For Trumpets
14 Some Skunk Funk
15 Deacon Blues ten
16 Two O’clock Jump
17 But Beautiful trp
18 Give It one
19 MacArthur Park
20 Night In Tunisia (Mossman)
21 Wave
22 Count Bubba
23 Okay With Jay (trom)
24 Pick Up The Pieces
25 Where and When trp
26 Greasy Sack Blues
27 Four arr Taylor
28 Splanky Nestico
29 Big Mama Cass
30 Jazz Police Goodwin
31 Footpath Café
32 High Maintenance Goodwin open
33 Left Bank Express
34 Nutville
35 Straight Ahead Basie
36 Hit The Ground Running Goodwin
37 Blue Invasion 120b/b
38 Catch As Catch Can
39 Time Check
40 Count me in
41 WillowCrest
42 There’s The Rub
43 Mr Lucky
44 Prime time
45 Clarinet A La King
46 Samba Del Gringo
47 Backrow Politics
48 Funktown
49 Blackjack
50 Let’s Dance
51 A few Good Men
52 Sister Sadie
53 I’ve Found A New Baby
54 Queen Bee 120b/b
55 Flupp
56 Mexicali Nose
57 Tumbling Tumbleweeds
58 Dancing Men
59 Udder Nonsence
60 For Lena and Lenny
61 Cruising For A Blussin
62 John Browns Other Body Love For Sale
63 Fun Time 136b/b
64 Big Dipper
65 Hunting Wabbits
66 Hunting Wabbits 2
67 Groovin High
68 What is Hip
69 Blues and the Absessed Tooth
70 Hit and Run minims 120b/b
71 Switch in Time
72 Pressure Cooker
73 Gabriel 55b/b
74 I’m Getting Cement All Over You
75 Count Bubba’s Revenge
76 Sing Sing Sing
77 Back Bay Shuffle
78 A Warm Breeze
79 Samantha
80 Laura
81 Tall cotton
Pad B
1 Tall Cotton
2 Back Bone
3 Hey Taxi
4 Attack Of the Killer Bees
5 If I could
6 Nice & Juicy
7 Swingin For the Fences
8 Swing House
9 Riff In Peace
10 Big Swing Face
11 Night Flight
12 A time For Love
13 Bone Voyage
14 Cut and Run
15 Fire Shaker
16 Wrong Highway Blues
17 Nightowl Suite 1
18 Nightowl Suite 2
19 Soul Vaccination
20 Always and Forever
21 Children Of Sanchez
22 Basie Straight Ahead
23 Backrow Politics
24 Bad Samba
25 Keep Looking Young
26 Sing Sang Sung
27 Samba Del Gringo
28 Night In Tunisia Guy 2
9 Funktown
30 Bach
31 In a Mellow Tone
32 High Maintenance
33 Jazz Police
34 Alright Okay You Win
35 Any Dude Will Do
36 Moanin Mingus
37 Liberty City
38 Prime Time
39 Count Bubbha
40 Crusin For A Blusin
41 There’s the Rub
42 Big Dipper
43 The Blues Machine
44 Nica’s Dream
45 One Note Samba
46 Samantha
47 Sonny’s Place
48 Every Little Beat Helps
49 Take the A Train
50 Runferyerlife
51 Basie’s Buddy B
52 Zero Degrees Kelvin
53 Whiplash
54 Caravan (Whiplash)
55 French Connection
56 Laura
57 Coconut Champagne
58 On Green Dolphin Street
59 But Beautiful
60 Clarinet A La King
61 23N/82W
62 Final Analysis
63 In a Turkish Bath
64 Small Talk
65 Tenderly
66 Artistry In Rhythm
67 Thad Said No/Under The Wire
68 88 Basie Street
69 Hard Sock Dance
70 Tank
71 Groove Blues
72 Kid From Red Bank
73 Joy Spring
74 Don’t Git Sassy
75 Three And One
76 King Poter Stomp
77 Groove Merchant
78 Cherry Juice
79 Stealing Apples
80 Fables Of Faubus
1 I’m Beginning to See The Light
2 Booze Brothers
3 Latin Dance
4 Dangerous Precedent
5 I got Rhythm
6 Woodchoppers Ball
7 Parting Don Ellis
8 I Remember Goodwin
9 Back To Basie
10 Orilla del mar
11 Marguarite Nestico
12 louisiana be-bop
13 Cajun Cooking
14 Blackmail
15 Fastinating Rhythm
16 Fox hunt Maynard
17 Computer minzer
18 Funky cha-cha
19 Basically blues
20 Time For A change Levy
21 Brazil
22 El Macho Muchcho
23 Artie Shaw Concerto
24 Blue birdland
25 Stompin At The Savoy Holman
26 All My Life
27 Blue Chip (Nestico)
28 Samba Dees Godda do it (Trp)
29 Dreamsville
30 Spring can really hang you up the most (trom solo)
31 Dimensions In Blue Nestico
Pad C
32 Sweets (Steady Swing) Nestico
33 it's just talk
34 Pools
35 61st and Rich’ It
36 Just Friends
37 Gorilla Man Blues Bari
38 (Meet) the Flintstones xxxx
39 Elegant People
40 Smack Dab In The Middle
41 Take the a train Goodwin
42 The Peacocks Bass Clt
43 Knarf
44 Whisper Not Ferguson
45 Barnburner
46 A Smith Named Greg
47 Bundle O Funk
48 Wind Machine
49 Occam’s Razor Kelvin
50 Long Ago And Far Away
51 Back In Blue Orleans
52 I remember Bird
53 Bone Stew
54 Kids Are Pretty People
55 Seven Steps To Heaven
56 Copenhagan
57 High Clouds And a good...
58 The Third Degree
59 TickleToe
60 Recordame Mossman
61 Spring Is Here
62 Hay Burner
63 Slave Labour
64 Shiny Stockings
65 Hunting Wabbits
66 Samba Du Bois
67 Lazy Bird
68 I'll Take Romance lennie niehaus
69 Quintessence
70 Central Park West fedchock slow
71 Superbone Meets The Badman maynard ferguson
72 Papa Lips Mintzer
73 Thumbs
74 Toothless Grin
75 It’s Alright With Me
76 Black Narciussus
77 Strike Up The Band
78 Ya Gotta try - Nestico
79 Tribute To Art Fern - blues
80 MOT Maynard
81 Under the wire
82 La Almeja Pequena
83 James
84 Niama
85 Fan it Janet
86 Yes or No/
87 4679835th
88 500 Miles High
89 BlackBird Tomaro
90 Nefertit
91 North Beach Breakdowm
92 High Five
84 Version Nestico
Other charts I’ve got.
All the things you are
America the beautiful
Be bop charlie
Besame mucho
Birdland Maynard
Body and soul
Channel one sweet
Cherokee mantooth
Christmas songs
Count bubba
Dancing men
Don’t be that way
Dream of the return Esy
Every summer night
Flinstones
Footpath cafe
Four brothers
Fox hunt
Gonna fly now
Have you meet miss jones
Here’s that rainy day
Horn of puente
I’ve found a new baby
It don’t mean a thing
It had to be you
Left bank express
Love for sale
Macarthur park
Mack the knife nestico
Maria
Mira mira
Moaning Basie
Mr lucky
My favourite things
Night in Tunisia Mossman
Nou’s blue
nutville
Ol Man River
On green dolphin street
Out of sight but not out of mind
See the world
Seems like old times
Sportin’ a ‘tude
Spring can really hang you up the most Straight no chaser man tooth
Sweet Georgia brown x2
Tenor madness
The Lamp is low
This can’t be love
Time check
Tuning up
Undecided
Walking the surface of the planet Watermelon man
What are you doing for the rest of your life Whiplash
Whisper not
Yesterdays
Zodiac girls
Chicago (Rich)
43 Come Rain or Shine
44 Concerto For Trumpet
45 Cute
46
47 Day In Day Out 48
49 Gabriel
50 Get It On Ferguson
51 La Feista
52 Malaga Kento
53 Pink Panther
54 Mercy Mercy Mercy Rich
55
56 Sorta The Blues 57
58 Urbal Lung Comedy Goodwin
59 Valdez In The Country
62 Wonderbag Rich
63 Wee Dizzy
Almost Like Being In Love April In Paris
Doin’ Bassie’s Thing
Hayburner
On Purple porpoise Parkway Strike Up The Band
Teddy The Toad
The Kid From Redbank
MIKE BARONE
After-You_ve-Gone.pdf
All-Knowing.pdf Am-
I-Blue.pdf Another-Juan.pdf
As-Time-Goes-By.pdf
Baby-Blues.pdf
Beautiful-Love.pdf
Besame-Mucho.pdf
Blue-Daniel.pdf
Brother-G.pdf
Buffalo-Shuffalo.pdf
Soul-Searcher.pdf
Star-Eyes.pdf
T.J.Blues.pdf
That_s-A-Plenty.pdf
The-Girls.pdf
The-Jitterbug-Waltz.pdf
The-Monster.pdf
The-Phantom.pdf
The-Shipmaster.pdf
The-Skinny-One.pdf
Tobiasse.pdf
Toot-Toot-Tootsie.pdf
Castaic.pdf
Cette-Chose.pdf
Da-Da-Da-Dut.pdf
Dr.T.pdf Feels-Great.pdf
Five-Easy-Quarters.pdf Flupp.pdf
Grand-Central.pdf
Guerin.pdf
Henry.pdf
Home-Groan.pdf
I_ll-Be-Seeing-You.pdf
I-Got-It-Bad.pdf I
s-You-Is.pdf
It-Could-Happen-To-You.pdf
Joe_s-Waltz.pdf
Jumbo_s-Samba.pdf
Juss-Messin_-Around.pdf
Kansas-City.pdf
Leggs.pdf
Love-Locked-Out.pdf
Luv2.pdf
Maniac.pdf
Medalist.pdf
Miss-Flusey.pdf
Mixed-Her-79.pdf
Mom_s-Mad.pdf
Mr.Humble.pdf
Muskrat-Ramble.pdf Nana.pdf
Needle.pdf
Oh-Lord.pdf
Oh-Mother.pdf
Passe.pdf
Real-Neal.pdf Rosa-Rugosa.pdf
Tumbling-Tumbleweeds.pdf
Two-4-Road.pdf
Wabash.pdf
Waltz-This!.pdf
We_ll-Be-Together-Again.pdf
Where-Or-When.pdf
Who-Gives-A-Rock.pdf
Wine-Blooze.pdf
You-Are-My-Sunshine.pdf
Your-Mama-Don_t-Dance.pdf
EASY
Blossom.pdf
Blues-For-Sita.pdf
Brother-John_s-Traveling-Medicine- Show.pdf
Cantaloupe-Girl.pdf
Come-On-And-Dance.pdf
Dancy.pdf
Dovie.pdf
Eleanor-Rigby.pdf
Flip-Top.pdf Herb_s-Waltz.pdf
Hotsy.pdf
Jodi.pdf
Justin.pdf
Keach.pdf
La-Ultima-Samba.pdf
Lady-Madonna.pdf Leona.pdf
Lisa.pdf Lite-Blooz.pdf Little-Magu.pdf
Little-Pert.pdf Missy.pdf Ms-Flusey.pdf
Rosebud.pdf
Shawnee.pdf
Skyliner.pdf
Smokin_.pdf
AmericanPatrol.pdf
back home [nestico].pdf
Basie's Blues in C.pdf
Chans Song Hancock Wonder.pdf
chatanooga choo-choo (wolpe).pdf
Diggin on James Brown - 5 horns.pdf
doin' basie's thing (nestico).pdf
frecklefacecomplete.pdf
Get Your Feet Back - 6 horns.pdf
Girl From Ipanema Big Band.pdf
gorilla man blues [taylor].pdf
harlem nocturne [russo].pdf hawaii 50].pdf
I feel good full big band.pdf
Memphis Underground - Complete.pdf Miles Davis - (1959) Kind Of Blue most royal count.pdf
moten swing (nestico).pdf
Odd couple Hefty.pdf
one o'clock jump Basie.pdf
peter gunn - incomplete (wolpe).pdf Starsky Hutch Tom Scott.pdf
Ms.-Docile-Fossil.pdf Noteworthy.pdf Red-Zinger.pdf Rows-Of-Toes.pdf Royal-Garden-Blues.pdf Soul-Man.pdf The-Pooch.pdf
Theo.pdf
Tip-Toe.pdf Two-Steppin_.pdf Yes-Sir,Thats-My-Baby.pdf Yesterday.pdf
Yo-Yo.pdf
MB Big Band's Prices
Last updated: 2024
Note: prices may vary based on travel distance. For an exact quote, click “Check availability”.
Standard Prices
10 musicians
| Performance duration | Price | |
| Up to 1 hour | £3750 | |
| Up to 2 hours | £3750 | |
| Up to 3 hours | £5000 |
Add-ons
The Rat Pack
+£750
Customer questions
What do your clients love most about your performances?
Playing with the countries finest musisicans is always a joy.
Which venues have you performed at in the past?
Esher Theatre, Turks Head, The Hamoton Hub, The Spice of Life, Cake Posk.
Which artists have you been most influenced by?
The the Band leaders and arrangers.
What is the most high profile gig you've performed?
Esher theatre
Do you have different line-up options?
Lineups can be adjusted, many of the charts are for standard Big Band, 5 saxes, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, piano, bass , drums and guitar. So balance would be compromised.
What if my timings change after I've booked you?
As you can imagine, getting 17 players to the right place at the right time wearing the right clothes and with their instrument! can be a challenge.
If timings change slightly on the day, no problem. If the day changes, as much notice as possible would be helpful.
Can you provide an iPod/DJ service before and between your sets?
Back ground music can be provided between sets.Please let me know the required genre.
How much time do you need to set up?
1 hour set up.
Can you roam around while you perform?
Roaming is not possible.
Can I pick the songs you play from the set list?
Please choose your tunes.
Is all of the equipment (e.g. PA & lighting) included in your quote?
As stated, we bring what we need except 15 chairs.
Can you learn song requests before the event?
If the requested is available, we can play it. More modern tunes may not be arranged for Big Band.
Musicianship
Genres:
Swing, Jazz, Blues, Jazz fusion, Latin jazz, Ragtime, Modern jazz
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Event types:
Private event, Wedding, Hotel / Restaurant event, Bar / Club / Venue event, Corporate event, Charity event, Concert, Theatre / Show, Birthday party
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