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The
Fairly Honest Jazz Band is one of the Northwest’s premier big band swing
ensembles and consists of some of Seattle's finest professional jazz
artists. This nine-piece band specializes in all forms of jazz, with a
repertoire spanning classic standards to swing, ballads and contemporary.
The band’s performances display a lyricism and energy perfect for weddings,
anniversaries, corporate events, festivals or a host of other fine
occasions.
Under the direction of Jon Krueger, The Fairly Honest Jazz Band has well
over 400 songs in its library and continually adds new tunes. The band can
also cover a wide variety of songs other than jazz, from pop to the blues,
from rock-n-roll to hip hop. If no one in the band knows your particular
tune, provide them with a recording and one of the skilled musicians will
write an arrangement of it for you. At a wedding last summer, Hans Brehmer’s
arrangement of In A Heartbeat brought the bride to tears – of joy, of
course. Examples of other recent requests include songs such as Brown Eyed
Girl (Van Morrison) and Copacabana (Barry Manilow), among dozens of others.
"Mastery is not about how much you know, but what you do
with what you know. And the other thought, perhaps even more important, that
it's never about the thing itself but it's about the spirit of the thing.
Like Einstein said, inspiration is more important than knowledge. There are
times when our playing is inspired, and we should endeavor to seek that
place, not the mechanics of what went on. That's where the magic is."
- Hans Brehmer
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