Friday 30th August 2024 - Project Swing Big Band
The Project Swing Big Band is a young and energetic big band full off great talent that offers Jazz and Swing classics as well as standards. They can also throw in Latin, Rock and Funk in the big band style, and their versatility ensures them many bookings for a variety of events.
The band was initially formed as a 17 piece ‘big band’, and its very first rehearsal revealed great energy and natural cohesion, partly as a result of the youthfulness of its individual members, but also because of the infectious enthusiasm of its founder, Andrew Montfroy.
Andrew was raised in a musical family, with his mother playing the piano and a father who both played and taught the guitar. He started with the violin at the age of 5, then, aged 11, he first heard Jack Teagarden on his father’s records and began to learn the trombone. His early love of jazz took him to Melbourne, where he was soon playing with local jazz and big bands in the Melbourne area, such as the Maple Leaf Jazz Band, the Cairo Club Orchestra, the Black Beach Jazz Band He was also a permanent member of ‘Jazz On Tap’.
The band was initially formed as a 17 piece ‘big band’, and its very first rehearsal revealed great energy and natural cohesion, partly as a result of the youthfulness of its individual members, but also because of the infectious enthusiasm of its founder, Andrew Montfroy.
Andrew was raised in a musical family, with his mother playing the piano and a father who both played and taught the guitar. He started with the violin at the age of 5, then, aged 11, he first heard Jack Teagarden on his father’s records and began to learn the trombone. His early love of jazz took him to Melbourne, where he was soon playing with local jazz and big bands in the Melbourne area, such as the Maple Leaf Jazz Band, the Cairo Club Orchestra, the Black Beach Jazz Band He was also a permanent member of ‘Jazz On Tap’.
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