Highwire

Venturing deeper into Jazz than just your typical Rat Pack and Swing Standards, Highwire are a specialist Jazz band who perform a century of Jazz from Fats Waller, Ellington, Gershwin through to Herbie Hancock, Charlie Parker, Horace Silver and Chick Corea.

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Set List / Repertoire

American Song Book
Devil may care - Bob Dorough/T.P. Kirk
Foggy Day - Gershwin
Georgia on my mind - Hoagy Carmichael
I’m beginning to see the light - Duke Ellington
In a mellow tone - Duke Ellington
I thought about you - Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Mercer
Lady is a tramp - Rogers & Hart
Love for sale - Cole Porter
Misty - Errol Garner/Johnny Burke 
My Funny Valentine - Rogers & Hart
Night & Day - Cole Porter
Pennies from Heaven - Johnston/Burke
Pick Yourself Up - Jerome Kern
St Louis Blues - W.C. Handy
Stormy weather - Arlen/Koehler
Take the A train - Ellington/Strayhorn
There will never be another you - Warren/Gorden
This can’t be love - Rogers & Hart
What is this thing called love? - Cole Porter
Witchcraft - Coleman/Leigh

SWING / STANDARDS
Ain’t Misbehavin’ - Fats Waller
Angel eyes - Matt Dennis/Earl Brent
Autumn Leaves - Johnny Mercer
Broadway - Sammy Nestico
Honeysuckle rose - Fats Waller
I could write a book - Rogers & Hart
If I were a bell - Frank Loesser
Lulu's back in town - Harry Warren/Al Dubin
Moanin' - Bobby Timmonds
Old devil moon - Burton/Lane
Our of nowhere - Green/Heyman
Puttin’On The Ritz - I. Berlin
Route 66 - Bobby Troupe
Take Five - Paul Desmond
Things ain't what they used to be - Mercer Ellington

LATIN/BOSSA
A day in the life of a fool (Black Orpheus) - Luiz Bonfa
Shadow of your smile - J Mande
Caravan - Ellington
One note samba - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Watermelon man - Herbie Hancock
Wave - Antonio Carlos Jobim

50's
All blues - Miles Davis
Alice in wonderland - Sammy Fain
Bags groove - Milt Jackson
Billie’s Bounce - Charlie Parker
Goodbye pork pie hat - Charles Mingus
Lullaby of Birdland - George Shearing
Secret love - Webster/Fain
So What - Miles Davis
Tender trap - Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen

60's
Afternoon in Paris - John Lewis
Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock
Impressions - Joh Coltrane
Milestones - Miles Davis
Sidewinder - Lee Morgan
Song for my father - Horace Silver

MODERN
Armandos rhumba - Chick Corea 
Backstage Sally - Wayne shorter
Crystal silence - Chick Corea
500 miles high - Chick Corea
Highwire - Chick Corea
Windows - Chick Corea
Your Heart Is As Black As Night - Melody Gardot

For your wedding ceremony we can include Pachelbel's Canon ~ Trumpet & Piano
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So much more. A century of jazz for the connoisseur......A-Z

Almost like being in love - Lerner/Lowe
And what if I don’t - Herbie Hancock
Azule Serape - Victor Feldman
Barbara - Horace Silver
Beautiful love - Young/King/Gillespie
Beatrice - Sam Rovers
Bernie’s Tune - Bernie Miller 
Birks works - Dizzy Gillespie 
Blood count - Billy Strayhorn
Blue In Green - Bill Evans
Blues for Alice - Charlie Parker
Boogie woogie bossa nova - Eddie Harris
Boplicity - Miles Davis/Gil Evans
Born to be blue - Mel Torme/R. Wells
Bouncing with Bud - Bud Powell
Bud’s bubble - Bud Powell
Bud Powell - Chick Corea
But not for me - George Gershwin
Celia - Bud Powell
Cheesecake - dexter Gordon
Chorinho P’ra Voce
Comes love - Brown, Stept, Tobias
Con Alma - Dizzy Gillespie
Crisis - Freddie Hubbard
Cute - Neil Hefti
Darhoud - Clifford Brown
Dat Dere - Bobby Timmonds
Dear old Stockholm - Trad/Miles Davis
Dewey Square - Charlie Parker
Dolphin dance - Herbie Hancock
Doodlin' - Horace Silver
Down for double - Freddie Green
Doxy - Sonny Rollins
Driftin’ - Herbie Hancock
Dulzura - Clare Fischer
Everything but you - Duke Ellington
Everything I Got belongs to you - Rodgers & Hart
Firewater - Jazz Crusaders
Flower is a lovesome thing - Billy Strayhorn
Flight of the Foo Birds - Neil Hefti
Fontessa - John Lewis
Footprints - Wayne Shorter
Four - Miles davis/Hendricks
Freddie freeloader - Miles Davis
Freight Trane - Tommy Flanagan
Friday night at Cadillac Club - Bob Berg
Gaviota - Clare Fischer
Gentle rain - Luiz Bonfa
Ghost of a chance - Victor Young/Bing Crosby
Gingerbread boy - Jimmy Heath
Give me the simple life - Bloom/Ruby
Gloria’s step - Scott LaFaro
Gostoso - Clare Fischer
Green stamps - Bob Brookmeyer
Gregory is here - Horace Silver
Groove yard - Carl Perkins
Groovin' High - Dizzy Gillespie
Harlem nocturne - Dick Rogers/Earl Hagen
Have you met Miss Jones - Rogers & Hart
Hawg Jawz - Clark Terry
Here's that rainy day - Jimmy Van Heusen 
Hocus pocus - Lee Morgan
Hot house - Tad Dameron
I let a song go out of my heart - Duke Ellington
Ill wind - Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler
I'll never be the same - Gus Khan, M Malneck, Frank Signorelli
I’ll never smile again - Ruth Lowe
I mean you - Thelonius Monk
I'm old fashioned - Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer
In a sentimental mood - Duke Ellington
Interplay - Bill Evans
In walked Bud - Thelonius Monk
Isfahan - Billy Strayhorn
Israel - J Carisi
It could happen to you - Jimmy Van Heusen
It didn’t turn out that way - Mose Allison
Jazz n samba - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Jeanine - D Pearson
Jitterbug waltz - Fats Waller
Jody grind - Horace Silver
Joy spring - Clifford Brown
Juicy Lucy - Horace Silver
Just You, Just Me - Jesse Greer
Katrina Ballerina - Woody Shaw
Late date - Neal Hefti
Like a boat out on a river - Ben Sidran
Little sunflower - Freddie Hubbard
Lonnie’s lament - John Coltrane
Loop - Chick Corea
Love me or leave me - Walter Donaldson
Lullaby of the leaves - Bernie Petkere/Joe Young
Maichen - Les McCann
Mr PC - John Coltrane
Mr Sims - John Coltrane
Mood - Miles Davis
Mood Indigo - Duke Ellington
Moon rays - Horace Silver
Morocco - Russ Freeman 
My little suede shoes - Charlie Parker
Naima - John Coltrane
Nardis - Miles davis
Nicas dream - Horace Silver
Night in Tunisia - Gillespie
No moon at all - Harry Warren
Nostalgia in Times Sq. - Charles mingus
Now’s the time - Charlie Parker
Nuages - Django Reinhardt
Nutville - Horace Silver
One foot in the gutter - Clark Terry
One for Daddy-o - Nat Adderley
On Green Dolphin St - Bronislau Kaper
On time - Les McCann
Orange was the colour of her dress - Charles mingus
Our love is here to stay - Gershwin
Out back of the barn - Gerry Mulligan
Peggy’s blue skylight - Charles Mingus
Prelude to a Kiss - Duke Ellington
Pretty eyes - Horace Silver
Red Clay - Freddie Hubbard
Renovated Rhythm - Eddie Harris
Rhythm-A-Ning - Thelonius Monk
Robbins nest - Sir Charles Thompson
Round Midnight - Thelonius Monk
Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers - Steve Kuhn
Samba de orfeu - Luiz Bonfa
Sandu - Clifford Brown
Scrapple from the apple - Charlie Parker
September in the rain - Harry Warren/Al
Serenade to a bus seat - Clark Terry
Seven steps to Heaven - Miles Davis
Shiny stockings - Frank Foster 
Simple waltz - Clark Terry
Sister Cheryl - Tony Williams
Skylark - Hoagy Carmichael
Smooth one - Benny Goodman
Softly as in the amorning sunrise - Sigmund Romberg
Solitude - Duke Ellington
Someday my prince will come - Frank Churchill
Someday we'll meet again - Les McCann
Song for Clare - Dave Weckl
Stella by starlight - Victor Young
Summer night - Warren/Dubin
Summer samba - Marcus Valle
Tenor madness - Sonny Rollins
This Masquerade - Leon Russell
Thrill is gone - Roy Hawkins/Rick Darnell
Tin Tin Deo - Dizzy Gillespie
Tiny capers - Clifford Brown
Tones for Joan’s bones - Chick Corea
Tricrotism - Oscar Pettiford
Triste - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Tune up - Miles Davis
Up jumped spring - Freddie Hubbard
Voyage - Kenny Barron
Wake me when it’s over - Ben Sidran
Walkin’ shoes - Gerry Mulligan 
Weaver of dreams - Victor Young
Weird nightmare - Charles Mingus
Wednesday race - Gary Dial
What Am I Here For? - Duke Ellington  
Yardbird suite - Charlie Parker
Yes & No - Wayne Shorter
You Don’t Know What Love Is - Raye/DePaul

Full Biography

Venturing deeper into Jazz than just your typical Rat Pack and Swing Standards, Highwire are a specialist Jazz band who perform a century of Jazz from Fats Waller, Ellington, Gershwin through to Herbie Hancock, Charlie Parker, Horace Silver and Chick Corea.

Performed by a well seasoned, experienced rhythm section and led by a multiinstrumentalist Singer also playing Chromatic Harmonica, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Highwire bring Jazz to life.

Band Leader Biography
A Musical Director/Pianist in TV, Studio, Theatre production and Big Band. Most famously composing and producing the music for BBCs “Tweenies”, Hearts of Gold, Crimewatch File & Carol Vorderman’s “Mysteries”. As well as many other TV productions, he has spent decades as director of music for dozens of theatre shows including: Sweeney Todd, Guys & Dolls, Chicago, Porgy & Bess, Blood Brothers, Adrian Mole, Our Day Out and more.

Recent studio/session work:
Dexy’s Midnight Runners
DJ Shadow
Elizabeth McGovern’s “Sadie & the Hot Heads” etc. 
John Etheridge
Makoto Kuriya (Japanese jazz pianist and producer)
Marlene (Japanese vocalist)

Some venues past, present and future:
The Grims Dyke Hotel, Harrow Weald - Residency & many special concerts. (One of First Great Westerns ?agship hotels)
Regents Street Festival, 2015, 2016, 2017
St Martins in the Fields Hartsbourne Golf Club
Bushey Alexandra Palace
BBC Studios, 75 years of Television
Uxbridge Conservative Club (Private function)
Portsmouth Sailing Club Heddon Street, W1. Al Fresco Festival - courtesy Regents Street Association
Black Lion Restaurant, Hay On Wye Festival - Residency 2016 / 2017 / 2018
Mill Hill Jazz Club
National Theatre
Greenwich Festival
Hackney Downs Drinks Festival
Finsbury Gardens Festival 2016 / 2017
Cafe Jazz, Cardiff
Narberth Jazz Club, Pembrokeshire
Bear Club, Luton

Lineup

Default lineup: 4 members

Quartet: Male Vocals/Trumpet/Harmonica/Flugelhorn, Double Bass, Piano & Drums.

Performance Times

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Price from £889 + travel from London

Based on 4 members performing 2 x 60 minute sets

  • South East From £889
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  • Wales From £2,352
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  • North East From £3,921

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10 Customer Reviews

Performance quality: 5 stars
Sound quality: 5 stars
Behaviour: 5 stars
Communication: 5 stars
Audience engagement: 5 stars
Value for money: 5 stars
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Your band were fantastic

5 stars - Highwire are Highly Recommended
booked Highwire for their event

“It was lovely to see you. You, your band and crowd were fantastic, you have received lots of good feedback. It was really great to have you back, it was a very enjoyable evening, I was here almost until the end and loved every second. The Duty manager gave you slightly more money than stated in the contract per ticket sales. I felt it was only fair due to your commitment and quality of entertainment you provided on the night. Please don’t take this a patronising way, I am well aware I deal with a professional when dealing with you, but have seen some professionals cut corners etc and so it was nice to see this wasn’t happening on your night. It really was a good gig!! ”


They were absolutely fantastic, I thoroughly recommend them!

5 stars - Highwire are Highly Recommended
booked Highwire for their event

“The quartet played at my 50th birthday party. They were absolutely fantastic, and very much enjoyed (and commented on) by all the guests – they added greatly to the occasion, and I thoroughly recommend them!”


The perfect musical backdrop to our wedding!

5 stars - Highwire are Highly Recommended
booked Highwire for their event

“Thank you for being the perfect musical backdrop to our wedding! Everyone loved what they heard, and we're so pleased it went just how we hoped it would. Kevin and Karen”


Thank you so much for a brilliant contribution to the celebrations at the weddin...

5 stars - Highwire are Highly Recommended
booked Highwire for their Wedding

“Thank you so much for a brilliant contribution to the celebrations at the wedding. You and the band were brilliant. Not only in terms of fantastic playing, which was top-notch, but also in just being so accommodating and helpful with the whole afternoon/evening. We also appreciated your flexibility not to mention saving the speeches with your microphone. We are really grateful. Joe Warwick, Jack & Lara”


For bringing the appropriate 'class' to our proceedings.

5 stars - Highwire are Highly Recommended
booked Highwire for their event

“Thanks so much for producing such wonderful sounds last Sunday.....for bringing the appropriate 'class' to our proceedings.”

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