Joy Spring Vocal swing jazz
The band Joy Spring offers a vocal swing jazz inspired by the 1920s to 1940s.
He revisits the great standards with an elegant and immersive atmosphere.
Available in several formations, it entertains concerts, weddings and events in Paris.
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Joy Spring Solo Formation
The solo version, illustrated in a few videos here, pays tribute to the swing of the Roaring Twenties, on both sides of the Atlantic. From 1920 to 1940, blues and jazz revealed innovative artists in the United States, notably Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet… At the same time, in France and more broadly in Europe, the influence of these musics was felt in various artists such as Django Reinhardt, Joséphine Baker and Jean Sablon.
Like a true journey, Joy Spring Solo invites listeners to dive into the music and artists of this period. The songs are often accompanied by stories and anecdotes about the era that saw the birth of swing, French jazz clubs, swing dances such as lindy hop, and the tours of the big bands in the United States and Europe.
Our jazz singer and guitarist performs regularly in Paris. Passionate about jazz, he makes swing his favorite repertoire, drawing inspiration from the pioneers of jazz guitar, and from the singers of the era.
Video of the jazz swing trio
Video of the quintet
Joy Spring Trio and larger formations
A vocal swing trio
In the spirit of barbershop quartets and vocal groups such as the Mills Brothers and the Andrews Sisters, who popularized this style, the group Joy Spring performs a New Orleans and Swing jazz repertoire from the 1920s and 1930s in three-part harmony.
They perform a few great standards of this period that became “hits”: “Georgia on My Mind”, made famous by Ray Charles, “Ain’t She Sweet”, by the Beatles, and “I Ain’t Got Nobody”, by Louis Prima. The vocal harmonies are original arrangements by the trio. They will also play for you songs by Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Ray Charles.
The band has already performed many times in France: notably at La Bellevilloise (Paris), at the café-concert Le Charlie (Paris), and for various private events (weddings, corporate cocktail parties). The trio has also performed abroad, at the 2019 Ballydehob Jazz Festival in Ireland, and in Basel, Switzerland, for the dancers of the Basel Jitterbugs association. The band was due to play the Off stage of Jazz in Marciac in 2020 (canceled because of the health crisis).
They perform in different contexts: concerts (concert halls, festivals), private events (weddings, corporate parties), dance parties (lindy hop, charleston, blues) and musical event entertainment.
With a basic trio formula, the band can, depending on the needs of the event, enrich the formation with other musicians and instruments: notably drums, trumpet, saxophone, piano.
The different possible formations:
- Solo – Singer-guitarist
- Duo – Guitarist and double bassist
- trio – Guitarist, clarinetist, double bassist
- It is possible to add one or two musicians to form a quartet or even a quintet
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The band's repertoire
The Set List / The band's repertoire
- Connemara Rose – Dermot O’ Brien
- Theme for the Green Lands – Dan Ar Braz
- Muiñeira de Ponte Sampaio – traditional (repertoire of Carlos Nuñez, The Chieftains, etc.)
- Mazurka Ballade – original composition
- Jig Ballade – original composition
- Jigs with pop – jazz colors – original composition
- Suite of jigs on the bagpipes, with Scottish colors – original composition
- Hornpipe suite – original composition
- Banish Misfortune – traditional
- My Love Is in America – traditional
- Boys of the Blue Hill – traditional
- Cooley’s Reel – Joe Cooley
- The Strayaway Child – traditional
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