Other
groups:
The Tracey Roberts
Combos
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Tracey sings not only as a solo artist. The different musical groups she performs in combine her lyrical vocals and jazz-infused piano playing style with some of Melbourne's most talented and highly professional musicians. All of these sparkling combinations of performers create a great atmosphere with their respective passionate styles, musicality and cheerful personalities. |
The musicians:
Tracey is often accompanied by musicians such as:
Lachlan Davidson, Tony Hicks and Tony Buchanan - saxophones / flute / clarinet
Gary Costello, Frank Di Sario, David Krycer and Ian Wilmot - double bass
Peter Whitford, Ron Sandilands, John Perri and Anthony Baker - drums
Craig Schneider, Lisette Payet, Linda O'Brien - keyboards / piano / vocals
Julia De Jonghe - violin
Phil Smith - bass / vocals
Maria Forde, Janette Geri, Chloe Hall - guitar / vocals
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Musicians' Biographies
The Tracey Roberts Jazz Quartet comprises Tracey Roberts (vocals and piano), Lachlan Davidson (saxes, flute, clarinet), Peter Whitford (drums and percussion) and Frank Di Sario (double bass). It is an outstanding combination of talented and highly professional jazz musicians performing a combination of Tracey's original music and well-known jazz standards and smooth jazz-infused popular pieces, from ballads to full-on swing and contemporary jazz.
The Tracey Roberts Salon Quartet comprises Tracey Roberts (vocals and percussion), Linda O’Brien (piano), Julia de Jonghe (violin) and David Abiuso (double bass). Their repertoire includes jazz standards, Latin and contemporary popular music with an extensive number of instrumental classical pieces sprinkled into the mix. It is musically an extremely versatile group, performing a tasteful and sophisticated blend of music - the members of whom have had years of varied experience including performing as members of the MSO, Australian Pops and Philharmonic Orchestras.
The Tracey Roberts Band comprises the same line-up as the jazz quartet except we use a bass player/vocalist (Phil Smith) instead of double bass. This creates more of a pop / funk feel which is great for those rockin' dance numbers that everyone knows and loves.
Solo to quintet combinations.
Solo:
piano / vocals
Duos:
piano / vocals and double bass (more for jazz background music)
piano / vocals and drums (more for jazz/pop dancing and background
music)
piano / vocals and saxophone / clarinet / flute (more for concert
music)
Trios:
l piano / vocals, double bass and drums (great for jazz dancing
music)
l piano / vocals, drums and saxophone / clarinet / flute (great
for jazz / pop dancing music)
Quartets:
l piano / vocals, drums, double bass / bass and saxophone / clarinet
/ flute (great for the lot!)
Quintets:
Extra musicians can added to create larger groups for bigger
events
(eg. trumpet, keyboards, percussion, backing vocalists, violin
etc)
Concerts
with Maria Forde
Tracey performs
concerts regularly with Maria Forde - more recently at the National
Theatre for St. Patrick's Day and at the National Celtic
Festival in Port Arlington and the National Folk Festival
in Canberra. Together they combine their beautiful original songs
with other well-known pieces with luscious musical arrangements
and exquisite harmonies. For further information about Maria
Forde go to: www.mariaforde.com
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