About Blue Notes Duo – professional Sax & Guitar Jazz Duo based in London, UK
Blue NotesJazz Duo is composed of Robin (saxophone) & Jack (guitar), two highly experienced and award-winning musicians.
They regularly perform at weddings and corporate functions across the UK and internationally.
Previous bookings include events held in St James’s Palace (with HRH Princess Beatrice in attendance) and the Palace of Westminster, as well as for clients such as British Airways, Barclays Bank and the Hilton Hotel.
They have also performed in original music projects at some of the UK’s top jazz venues including Ronnie Scott’s, the 606 Jazz Club, Pizza Express Soho and The Vortex.
Robin and Jack met whilst studying at Leeds Conservatoire in 2010, and both graduated from the BA Jazz Programme with First Class Honours.
Robin went onto study on the prestigious postgraduate Jazz programme at the Royal Academy of Music where he graduated with distinction, whilst Jack has fast been earning a reputation as one of London’s most versatile guitarists.
The duo’s repertoire includes a myriad of jazz standards from the Great American Songbook, as well as bossa novas,funk/groove-based tunes, and some more contemporary pop songs.
They can tailor their set and learn song requests to give a personal touch to your occasion.
Line-up Options:
- Trio (saxophone, guitar/piano and bass OR singer)
- Quartet (saxophone, guitar/piano, bass and drums OR singer)
- Quintet (singer, saxophone, guitar/piano, bass and drums)
Set List
SWING:
A Foggy Day
Ain't Misbehavin'
All of Me
All the Things You Are
Autumn Leaves
But Not For Me
Bye Bye Blackbird
Cheek to Cheek
Days of Wine and Roses
Fever (Peggy Lee)
Fly Me To The Moon (Frank Sinatra)
Green Dolphin Street
Have You Met Miss Jones
How High the Moon
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
I Got Rhythm
I Remember You
I’ll Be Seeing You (Billie Holiday)
I Get A Kick Out Of You (Jamie Cullum)
I Should Care (Julie London)
It Could Happen To You
It Don't Mean a Thing (Ella Fitzgerald)
Just Friends
L-O-V-E (Nat King Cole)
Like Someone in Love
Love for Sale
Moondance (Van Morrison)
My Baby Just Cares For Me (Nina Simone)
Night and Day
On The Sunny Side of The Street
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
Someday My Prince Will Come
Stella By Starlight
Summertime
Take the A Train (Duke Ellington)
The Way You Look Tonight
There Will Never Be Another You
What Is This Thing Called Love?
BALLADS:
Body and Soul
Cry Me A River (Dinah Washington)
Embraceable You
I Fall in Love Too Easily (Chet Baker)
In a Sentimental Mood
Misty (Sarah Vaughan)
Moon River
My Funny Valentine
My One and Only Love
Round Midnight
Skylark
Smile (Gregory Porter)
Someone to Watch Over Me
You Don’t Know What Love Is
BOSSA NOVA/LATIN JAZZ
A Felicidade
Black Orpheus
Blue Bossa
Corcovado
Desafinado (Stan Getz)
How Insensitive
Sway (Michael Bublé)
The Girl from Ipanema (Antônio Carlos Jobim)
Triste
Wave
JAZZ FUSION
Afro Blue (Robert Glasper)
All Blues (Miles Davis)
Cantaloupe Island (Herbie Hancock)
Chameleon (Herbie Hancock)
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
My Favourite Things (John Coltrane)
Strasbourg St. Denis (Roy Hargrove)
Take Five (Dave Brubeck)
The Chicken (Jaco Pastorius)
Watermelon Man (Herbie Hancock)
POPULAR SONGS
Ain’t No Sunshine (Bill Withers)
At Last (Etta James)
Don't Know Why (Norah Jones)
Georgia on My Mind (Ray Charles)
Heard it Through the Grapevine (Gaye)
I Can't Help It (Michael Jackson)
Isn't She Lovely (Stevie Wonder)
Just the Two of Us (Bill Withers)
Let's Stay Together (Al Green)
Lovely Day (Bill Withers)
Mister Magic (Amy Winehouse)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Stevie Wonder)
Sunny (Bobby Hebb)
Stand By Me (Ben E. King)
Valerie (Amy Winehouse)