Midnight Serenaders

Bio:

..The MIDNIGHT SERENADERS newest recording, "Sweet Nothin's" has arrived. It is now available at CD Baby. We'd love for you to purchase one.

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Riding the crest of the neo-traditional jazz craze presently occurring on the West Coast, the MIDNIGHT SERENADERS are a six-piece swing band playing regularly to enthusiastic audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest. Performing vintage pop, Hot Jazz, and Hawaiian instrumentals, as well as an expanding collection of Jazz Age-sounding original songs, these six veteran musicians strive to share their love for the music of the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s. With an exciting stage show, tight musical arrangements, and outstanding solo and harmony vocals, MIDNIGHT SERENADERS fans include nostalgists, swing dancers, melody junkies, retro-clothing hounds, and folks who simply appreciate good quality, jubilant music.

Member Since:

April 14, 2006

Members:

Photos by Todd Fleming

The MIDNIGHT SERENADERS bring together six accomplished musicians who have, over the past decade and in other musical genres, made their mark on the Portland music scene. Featured are DOUG SAMMONS - guitar & vocals, HENRY BOGDAN - Hawaiian steel guitar, DEE SETTLEMIER - vocals & ukulele, PETE LAMPE, upright bass, GARNER PRUITT - trumpet, and DAVID EVANS- clarinet & saxophone.

Influences:

Fats Waller, Jimmie Rodgers, Cliff Edwards, Ethel Waters, Gene Austin, Annette Hanshaw, Al Jolson, Andy Iona, Sol Hoopii, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, the Mills Brothers, Jerry Byrd, Sidney Bechet, Cab Calloway, Ruth Etting, Johnny Marvin, Billie Holiday, the Boswell Sisters, Nellie Lutcher, Pinky Tomlin, Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Willard Robison, Mildred Bailey, Jack Teagarden, Josephine Baker, Red Nichols, Benny Goodman, and a whole lot of other people who are mostly dead.

Sounds Like:

...swinging, sweet, bluesy, crooning, melodic

Record Label:

unaffiliated