Jazz Trio Specialising in Jazz with a Brazilian Twist

Gina’s Jazz Trio is a professional, top-class jazz trio with sophisticated vocals specialising in jazz and Brazilian music for weddings, cocktail parties, corporate or private events, and reception drinks. Though the band perform regularly as a jazz trio, the group size can vary from a duo to a quintet.

Their repertoire consists of classic jazz standards from ‘The Great American Songbook’ made famous by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O’Day, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, etc., including timeless tunes like ‘Fly Me to the Moon,’ ‘Summertime,’ ‘The Way You Look Tonight,’ ‘Nearness of You,’ ‘My One and Only Love’, etc. The repertoire also features lively Brazilian songs by A.C. Jobim, such as ‘The Girl from Ipanema’,’ Desafinado,’ One Note Samba’, ‘Chega de Saudade’, ‘Corcovado’, etc. and vocals such as ‘Moody’s Mood for Love’ famously performed by Amy Winehouse, ‘Twisted’, etc.

One of the most recent highlight performances was at the Guildhall Jazz Festival, held at the Milton Concert Hall as part of the EFG London Festival, Green Note, Vortex, and Milton Concert Hall, to name a few and abroad concerts such as the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland, and Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin.

All band members are recent graduates with a master’s degree from prestigious conservatoires in London.

Repertoire

• G. Gershwin – The man I love
• H. Arlen – Come rain or come shine
• A. C. Jobim – Chega de saudade (No more Blues)
• A. C. Jobim – Corcovado
• A. C. Jobim – Once I loved
• A. C. Jobim – Desafinado
• B. Howard – Fly me to the moon
• D. Ellington – Don’t get around much anymore
• D. Frishber/J. Hodges – A little taste
• F. Walker – Ain’t Misbehavin’
• G. Shearing – Lullaby of Birdland
• J. Kern – All the Thing You Are
• J. Moody – Moody’s mood for love
• O. Nelson – Stolen Moments
• R. Rodgers – My funny Valentine

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