With years of professional experience both here and overseas, the Hot licks Trio are seasoned entertainers who give you that special party atmosphere that only live music can bring. Fully mobile, the Trio can perform at the highest standard upstairs, downstairs, indoors and out. As an acoustic group, Hot Licks is never too loud, just hot! SOPHIA MACRAE Clarinet, saxophone and vocals Raised on a winery in NSW with jazz-loving parents, Sophia completed a classical music degree in Adelaide followed by study in the USA.
Having worked previously in the SA Police Band, as a teacher and as a freelance theatre and jazz musician, Sophia has recently been a guest artist at jazz festivals in Australia and New Zealand, and is now a regular in the Melbourne music scene.
GLENN JACOBI - tuba, vocals Having begun his musical career busking in Adelaide at age 14, he worked as a professional jazz player while studying classical trombone. VMile performing on tuba with Sophia in Adelaide, he worked variously as a teacher and conductor. Glenn has toured around the country playing with jazz, rock and contemporary ensembles, and is now based in Melbourne.
WILL PURCELL - banjo, guitar, vocals A jazz man since the early eighties, Will has performed with bands such as The Des Camrn Jazz Band, Maple Leaf Band, Cairo Club Orchestra and New Melbourne Jazz Band, as well as appearing regularly on Bert Newton's Good Morning Australia. Will has recorded on numerous CD's and has toured extensively through the US, Canada and Asia.
THE HOT LICKS TRIO CAN PERFORM ALL OF THESE TUNES AND MORE:
- After You've Gone
- AFL Football Songs
- Ain't Mishchavin'
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- All of Me
- All My Loving
- Anything Goes
- As Time goes By
- Autumn Leaves
- Basin St Blues
- Bill Bailey
- Blueberry Hill
- Blue Moon
- Blue Skies
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Charleston Chatanooga
- Choo-choo
- Christopher Columbus
- Dancing Cheek to Cheek
- Darktown Strutter's Ball
- Don't Get Around Much Any More
- Exactly Like You
- Five Foot Two,
- Eyes of Blue
- Georgia
- Girl From lpanema
- Gundagai
- Hello Dolly
- Honeysuckle Rose
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love
- I've Got Rhythm
- It had to be You
- Just A Closer Walk with Thee
- Lady is a Tramp
- Limehouse Blues
- Love Me Tender (Aura Lee)
- Mack the Knife Margie
- Mister Sandman
- Misty
- Mood indigo
- Muskrat Ranible
- Old Man River
- Oleo
- Over the Rainbow
- Paper Moon
- Pennies from Heaven
- Puttin' on the Ritz
- Royal Garden Blues
- Slow Boat to China
- Stars Fell on Alabama
- Stomping at the Savoy
- Stranger on the Shore
- Summertime
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Take the A Train
- Up a Lazy River
- What a Wonderful World
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- When You're Smiling
- You are my Sunshine
ALSO ... Children's Songs -
- Bananas in Pyjamas,
- The Wiggles,
- Humphrey B. Bear Theme,
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- etc.
Anniversary Songs -
- Auld Lang Sync,
- Happy Birthday,
- For He's A jolly Good Fellow
- etc.
Christmas Songs & Carols ,
- jingle Bells,
- Deck The Halls,
- Silent Night
- etc.