Beautiful night for jazz

8/5/2019

Just getting around to posting this, but what a beautiful night for jazz at The Amp at Sam Michaels Park. Like the porridge in The Three Bears, it wasn’t too hot, it wasn’t too cool, and we didn’t get rained out. Add an enthusiastic crowd, it couldn’t be more perfect. The Amp is an almost brand new venue, and what a job they did. I’m certain you could fit a community band or orchestra in that space.

Jordan revamped the set list for this one with a lot of big band favorites, adding a little variety for us. The show wrapped up the Jordan English Jazz Orchestra summer schedule, and quite possibly, my own. As we head into fall, the band will be working on possibilities for Christmas, and I hope to be exploring opportunities for my own work, as well. Watch this space for what’s to come.

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Chris Six

Chris has been involved with big band, jazz and dance bands for over 30 years in central and southeastern Pennsylvania, the Washington DC metro region and the four-state area of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. A multi-instrumentalist, Chris has also performed in symphonic bands, brass quintets, orchestras and pit orchestras. He has served as a featured vocalist with the Swing Fever Dance Band and Brooks Tegler Big Band. Chris served as president of the Swing Fever Dance Band in 2002 and was a founding member of the Sound Advice Big Band. Chris is open to all opportunities and genres of music, and is happy playing any book in a section.

Samples:

WITH THE SWING FEVER DANCE BAND

Instruments: Trombone, trumpet, vocals, valve trombone, superbone, flugelhorn, mellophone and euphonium.

Interests/Experience: Big Band, Dance Band, Lab Band, Small Group Jazz, Swing, Trad/Hot Jazz, Western Swing, Great American Songbook, Barbershop, Harmony Groups, Rock, R&B, Soul, Funk, Country, Eclectic, Symphonic Bands, Orchestras, Pit Orchestra

Selected venues and events:

Sunnybrook Ballroom, Pottstown, PA
Long’s Park, Lancaster, PA
Pat Garrett Amphitheater, Strausstown, PA
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum World War II Weekend, Reading, PA
Olympian Ballroom, West Reading, PA
SS John Brown/Project Liberty Ship
MS Sovereign of the Seas, Royal Caribbean
Spanish Ballroom Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, MD
Blues Alley, Washington, DC
Weinberg Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD
Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Washington, DC
George Washington Hotel, Winchester, VA
National World War II Reunion on the Mall, May 27-30, 2004
Apollo Civic Theatre, Martinsburg, WV
The Old Opera House, Charles Town, WV

Jazz Ensembles:

Sound Advice Big Band – Trumpet, Trombone and co-director
Swing Fever Dance Band – Trumpet, Trombone and Vocals
The Let’s Dance Orchestra – Trumpet and Trombone
The Brooks Tegler Big Band – Trumpet, Trombone and Vocals
For Dancers Only – Trombone
Swingin' Harmony - Trombone
Yesterday Swing Orchestra - Trombone
The Jordan English Jazz Orchestra– Trombone
Brass Impact brass quintet - Trombone

Recordings: Swing Fever Dance Band: Something to Swing About: 20 Years of Swing Fever