Description | Price |
Private party (eg 50th birthday party where the music style and repertoire suits that age group). Playing for an hour | £120 |
A wedding playing for approx one hour | £200 |
Easy listening chilled guitar music for special occasions - restaurant's, family fetes, wine bars, special parties, exhibitions.
Jez is a self-taught guitarist who blends rich chord progressions with simple melodies interpreting classic songs such as Summertime, Nuages, Hotel California, Things we said today (Beatles) House of the rising sun, Nature boy, This Masquerade, Apache (Shadows), This Masquerade etc with some funky Sade like and gypsy jazz backings. He plays both pure nylon guitar and steel trung guitars that he has built himself and he can provide guitar synthesiser for adding saxophone, acoustic piano, organ and accordian which enrichens a performance depending on the occasion. He usually performs on the opening night of The Bath International Music Festival ('Party in the city') and has honed his music craft as a busker in Bath, serving particular restaurants. His guitar arrangements have been aired on radio including the BBC world Service. Realistically if it is a last minute booking 60 miles is a maximum Jez can travel by car with all sound equipment ready to fire up. Planned bookings can extend that distance limit.
Based in Bath, Bath And North East Somerset
Bluez Jez
I’ll Cry Instead (Beatles)
The Girl From Ipanema
Black Magic Woman
Moondance
House Of The Rising Sun
Nuages (Django Reinhardt)
Apache (interpretation)(The Shadows)
You’ve Got A Friend (Carole King)
Autumn Leaves
Hotel California (interpretation)
This Masquerade
Summertime
Things We Said Today (Beatles)
Isn’t She Lovely (Stevie Wonder)
Nature Boy
Parisienne Walkways (Gary Moore)
The House Of The Rising Sun (The Animals)
Man Of Mystery (The Shadows)
Troublant Bolero (interpretation)(Django Reinhardt)
Several Own Compositions - Improvisations
A stool to sit on. All equipment is provided. If it is a large venue a power socket is required, otherwise portable battery powered amplifiers etc are provided by Jez.
The range of equipment provided by Jez:
Electro acoustic nylon guitars operated with wireless jacks (offering mobility)
Roland guitar synthesiser for extra saxophone, piano and organ voices:
1. Two linked battery powered amplifiers - 40 watts plus 100 watts for smallish gigs or where there is an audience that listens rather than talks during the performance. A wireless microphone can be added to this set up.
2. A Yamaha 150 watt battery/mains powered PA system
3. A 300 watt guitar amplifier
Impromptu performance at a famous jazz club in Montmartre, Paris with saxophonmist friend Jim Cook. We literally knocked on the door and invited ourselves to play! Jim has played at Glastonbury and he later said on the Metro to our hotel that was the best ever gig he had played. We had travelled to Paris to busk at Sacre Ceour.
Hank Marvin, Django Reinhardt, Carlos Jobim, Chet Atkins.
Self-taught. Learned my craft as a busker on the streets of Bath
Private party adding to the atmosphere
Setting up - very quick - 5 mins when using portable battery powered equipment. Tuning up is done through headphones. Soundcheck/balancing is very quick. Sound checks are done within 30 secs and better with help from host.
Performance times - Jez has a repertoire of about 30 songs which can fill two 45 minute performance but her can do extended performances with improvised fill ins and variations of some of the repertoire. Eg Hotel California done with or without backing track and in latin and gypsy jazz style. It is flexible to suit the occasion of course.
Various restaurants in Bath & Bradford On Avon eg The Swan Hotel New Years Eve Dinner 2014 and 2015
Bath International Music Festival 'Party in the City' (2013- 2022)
Vino Vino wine bar - Thursday nights 'Jezzfusion' live band
Vino Vino wine bar, Bath