The DL Quartet

Repertoire

Jazz:- 

20's Dixieland

30's Swing Era

40's Rhythm & Blues

Late 50's &60's "Blue Note Era"

70's "Jazz; Fusion; Funk"

Dance:-

60's 70's Balroom

Latin Jazz and Bossanova

Pop:-

Drifters, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Marvin Gave, Otis Redding & more

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The DL quartet is one of the region's leading jazz quartets. Dutch, the leader of the quartet, plays saxophone, clarinet, flute , trumpet and also does the vocals. With him are guitar, bass and drums. Their repertoire is vast, exceeding some 800 pieces. The music is broadly divided into two categories, the Jazz Library and the Dance Library. 

The Jazz library is centred around material from what is generally referred to as the "Blue Note Era" of the late 50's & 60's and into the 70's "Jazz / Fussion / Funk". Typical titles are "Moanin'" ~ Art Blakey Jazz Messengers; "Cantaloupe Island" ~ Herbie Hancock; "Song for My Father" ~ Horace Silver; "Milestones" ~ Miles Davis; "Work Song" ~ & "Bohemia After Dark" ~ Cannonball Adderley; "Sidewinder" ~ Lee Morgan.

There are also softer Latin Jazz and Bossa Nova metrial from this period such as "Desafinado" & "Girl from Impanema" ~ Stan Getz; "My Cherie Amour" ~ Stevie Wonder

The Jazz Library then goes backwards historically to the Rhythm & Blues Music of artists lie Louis Jordan, Louis Prima, Joe Williams, with a big accent on the vocals, 40's style, with songs like "Ain't Nobody Here but us Chickens"; "Caledonia"; "Jump Jive & Wail"; "Route 66"; "Every day I have the Blues" etc. Then further back to the 3's sewing era of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw etc and finally back to the good "Dixieland" standards of the 20'2.

The Dance Library is centred around the late 50's and though the '60's into the 70's and includes Ballroom Quicksteps, Foxtrots, Waltzes, Latin American and a solid range of US and UK Pop music - especially songs associated with artistes like The Drifters, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Marvin Gave, Otis Redding.  The titles are simply too numerous to mention - They're every major hit though a quarter of a century!

The DL Quartet play regularly in the following counties:- Avon, East Midlands, Gloucester shire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire,  Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands,   Wiltshire, Worcestershire