Midnight Jazz Trio
Jazz Trio

Line up: Standard Line Up= Trio: Piano, Tenor Saxophone and Double Bass
* Duo (Piano and Tenor Saxophone) and Quartet (Piano, Tenor Saxophone, Double Bass, Drums) also available. Please see booking options for more details.

Highlights
* Professional jazz trio with a vast repertoire
* Members have performed with Van Morrison, Sir Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones & more!
* A range of other line ups also available!
* Available in the South and Midlands

Midnight Jazz Trio is a group of professional musicians with decades of experience. The trio excels at playing a distinctive and elegant range of jazz from their vast repertoire including composers such as Ellington, Carmichael, Gershwin and Cole Porter. Midnight Jazz Trio also has the option of performing as a duo or as a quintet with or without optional vocals.

Meet Midnight Jazz Trio
Tenor Saxophonist Julian has played with everyone from Shakin’ Stevens, Gilbert O’ Sullivan, Gerry And The Pacemakers to the Eurythmics and in September 2003 played for the Rolling Stones at the end of their world tour party at Shepherd's Bush in London. He has toured with Mike D’abo and Mike Pender from Manfred Man and The Searchers and Brian Poole form the Tremolos.

Julian has performed on the QE2 and travelled to Singapore, New Zealand and Australia as well as numerous performances in and around Europe playing his big smokey distinctive tenor sax sound.

Recently Julian has played at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London supporting Van Morrison on the first leg of his UK tour. He continues to work with Gilbert O' Sullivan regularly touring Japan and Europe and played on the main ‘Pyramid’ and acoustic stages at Glastonbury 2008.

Julian is also a member of Shakin’ Stevens’ band as the horn section with fellow trumpet player Matt Holland (Matt played with Van Morrison’s band for 13 years). Julian played with Shaky and the band on ITV’s ‘Dancing On Ice’ programme on Xmas 2008 day at 8pm closing the whole show with a knock out performance of ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ one of Shakey’s four number one hits!

Pianist Simon Whiteside has produced the film orchestrations for the recent film 'Kingdom of Heaven' directed by Ridley Scott. Simon has also produced the jazz arrangements for the Most Mysterious Murders on BBC 1. He continues to write arrange and play for numerous jazz outfits in and around the Capitol and for the BBC.

Bassist Julian Bury has played with Paul McCartney at the Cafe du Paris in London. Recently he has been seen playing sophisticated jazz on BBC 1's Holby City. Julian has appeared on Top of the Pops 2 playing bass with Gilbert O'Sullivan. Julian is a well respected bass player comfortable with everything from be-bop to jazz standards can regularly be seen in jazz clubs in and around London from Ronnie Scotts to the 100 Club.

Previous Experience
Midnight Jazz Trio has played at events such as Henley Regatta, Ascot and many celebrity functions at the Dorchester.

The trio have also played at corporate events for companies such as:
ICI,
Vodafone
The birthday party of millionaire Philip Green, owner of BHS chain
100 Club, London
BBC
Prestigious venues include:
ICA, London
Park Lane Hotel,
The Bleeding Heart Restaurant, London
Boisdale Club, Belgravia
Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland
Glastonbury
The Royal Albert Hall

Package Information
* Solo Sax - This includes up to 2 hours' solo saxophone playing with backing tracks for a full band sound.

* DJ Package - this includes 2 x 45 minutes sax set (includes backing tracks for a full band sound) plus a 2 hour DJ set of rock and pop music from 60s-00s (includes PA, lighting, mics and DJ can take requests)