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Rachael Levine - vocals
Rachael has been singing from a very early age, performing in musicals with local amateur dramatics during her teenage years and, more recently,singing with a trio at dinner dances. Rachael joined Zoot in 2009 and, with them, has performed at social functions, weddings, birthday celebrations and charity events. Her musical influences range from Ella Fitzgerald through Burt Bacharach to contemporary jazz musicians like Stacey Kent and Melody Gardot. |
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Bill Clark -saxophone/clarinet
Bill has been playing in bands and groups since the early 60's , starting his musical career with The Johnny Johnson Band playing baritone sax.
During the late 60's and throughout the 70's he was joint leader of the Mike James Band playing at many popular venues throughout Lincolnshire.. He now also is joint leader of Swingtime Big Band in addition to playing clarinet and tenor and alto saxophone with Zoot. he is an accomplished musician and enjoys playing all genres of music from jazz,swing and soul through to rock and pop
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Mike Would -guitar
Mike has been playing in bands and groups since the early 60's ,joining Bill with the Mike James Band for more than 10 years. He more recently played for a number of years with popular 60's revival group BOOT performing succesfully throughout Lincolnshire. He currently also plays with the Monsonaires Big Band and also Jazz at Heathers Quintet . Like Bill, he enjoys playing all genres of music with influences from great jazz guitarists such as Joe Pass , country players such as Chet Atkins and rock players such as Mark Knopfler
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Steve Grice - double bass
Steve began his musical career playing bass guitar in the resident dance band in several clubs and nightspots in the early seventies in Lincoln and Cleethorpes before moving to London and playing with several semi-pro bands and groups . He freelances on double bass with several Lincolnshire big bands including the Monsonaires and also plays 5-string bass guitar with Lincoln based group Styx playing music from the 60's through to the 90's . Like the other members of Zoot his musical influences are varied from rock and pop through to jazz and swing
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Rachael Levine - vocals
Rachael has been singing from a very early age, performing in musicals with local amateur dramatics during her teenage years and, more recently,singing with a trio at dinner dances. Rachael joined Zoot in 2009 and, with them, has performed at social functions, weddings, birthday celebrations and charity events. Her musical influences range from Ella Fitzgerald through Burt Bacharach to contemporary jazz musicians like Stacey Kent and Melody Gardot.
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