This rising swing star is putting the "big" back in "band" with the UK's top jazz & swing big band. Live recording 2008 is a unique 13 track cd creatively styled as vinyl, it even has needle grooves.

13 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Big Band, JAZZ: Swing/Big Band

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Debbie Curtis :- The Mistress of Swing! Putting the BIG back in BAND!!!!!!

About This CDâ¦â¦â¦â¦â¦..

Live Recording 2008 is the 3rd âNew Retroâ vinyl style CD release by The Debbie Curtis Radio Big Band who are proud to be considered by many as the UKâs Top Jazz & Swing Big Band

The CD comprises 13 Live Tracks including a guest vocal from Glenn Macnamara on the track Leroy Brown!

About The Bandâ¦â¦â¦â¦â¦..

A standing ovation at the world famous âLondon Palladiumâ says it all really, howeverâ¦â¦.

With a music library of over 1000 titles the band covers the music of all the greats from then until now, including, but not exclusively, Miller, Basie, Kenton, Heath, Dorsey, Herman, etc! From âTuxedo Junctionâ to âThe Pink Pantherâ and onwards. Even Robbie Williams gets a look in with hit arrangements from the album âSwing When Youâre Winningâ

Rising Swing Star Debbie Curtis, affectionately known as âThe Mistress of Swingâ has taken her late father Eddieâs 17 piece band to even greater achievements with a fantastic line-up of top UK musicians as well as featured guest vocalists and dancers for live performances! Debbie is also unique as the UKâs only fully professional female Big Band Leader!

The Beginning with Eddie Curtisâ¦â¦â¦â¦â¦â¦

The original band was founded as long ago as 1972 by Debbieâs dad, renowned Trombonist and Music Arranger Eddie Curtis. Eddie had played with many of the great bands of the 40âs and 50âs, was an arranger for the BBC as well as numerous major London publishing companies and consequently Debbie was brought up on Big Band music as he travelled the UK performing nearly every night of the week!

Then Debbie Took Overâ¦â¦â¦â¦â¦..

When Eddie died suddenly in 1993, Debbie, literally âinheritedâ his band, but by then she had the qualifications to front it with passion and confidence.

An accomplished professional musician and singer in her own right, Debbie plays piano and guitar plus numerous other instruments and can also sight read music. Sheâd also learnt a great deal from her dad as well as her mother Joy, also in the business, who had enjoyed a successful career as a top radio and studio session singer!

Debbie Changed Thingsâ¦â¦â¦â¦..
Not satisfied being purely a working band, Debbie has since completely re-structured the band with a view to attracting new audiences, her quote âPutting the BIG back in BAND! Sheâs recently brought in many new, younger and immensely talented musicians, plus her own dance troupe for live performances as well as era re-enactors such as âViv the Spivâ and other military and civilian characters!

The resultâ¦â¦â¦â¦.

A fantastic line-up of musicians, top quality performances, and perhaps most importantly of all, Concerts became a show that grabs the attention of all age groups!

What Interests Debbieâ¦â¦â¦â¦â¦..

Big Band, Big Band Swing & Big Band Jazz! In fact, anything Big Band! Not just performing though, Debbie also has a passion for the history of the music she grew up with; sheâs built up a huge collection of books on Big Band Music & Leaders and is becoming something of an expert on the subject! Her head full of interesting and unusual facts!

MySpace, YouTube & Band Websiteâ¦â¦â¦â¦â¦â¦

Additionally, Debbie and her management team have modernized the marketing of Big Band, a bright and detailed website with access to 100âs of pictures and sound samples plus MySpace and YouTube profiles was just the start!

Their efforts have paid off, the band website at the time of writing this has had nearly 160,000 hits and MySpace in excess of 19,000 hits, 13,000 track plays and 6500 new fans and this continues to grow!

Press & Radioâ¦â¦â¦â¦â¦â¦.

The band has firmly established themselves amongst the top Big Bands with recent UK national press and radio interviews reaching in excess of 14 million people. From national to local radio, the band are enjoying more and more airplay. On a recent national radio interview, the band website took such a massive rush of hits it temporarily crashed under the strain.

Finally, The Musicians and Vocalists on this CDâ¦â¦â¦â¦â¦â¦..

Debbie Curtis (MD & Vocals)
Glenn Macnamara (Guest Vocalist)
Piano: Geoff Eales. Bass: Dave Olney: Drums: Harold Fisher
Trumpets: Bob Cutting, Martin Shaw, Mike Nickel, Richard Freeman
Trombones: Lee Hallam, Bob Wilson, Jon Stokes, Chris Fower
Saxes: Mark Alloway, Pete Ripper, Eddie Mordue, Andy Potts, Horace Cardew
Backing Singers: Ziggie Ward & Daisy Foster

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