Heartbeat Jazz Band at Smarty’s Restaurant and Pub, 215 Main St. Niantic CT (860) 739-8818
Heartbeat’s Christmas Show at Smarty’s, Thursday December 19, 2014
Here are a few pictures and the playlist for Heartbeat’s Christmas show at Smarty’s. www.smartysniantic.com. It was a mixture of seasonal favorites and traditional jazz standards along with a few other surprises.
Bill Logozzo – drums, leader Fred Vigorito – cornet
Skip Hughes – trombone, vocals Noel Kaletsky – reeds
Bob Card – saxophone Art Hovey – tuba, bass
Steve Keillor – banjo, guitar Shari Lucas-keyboard
Andrew Walker – guest vocalist
Playlist:
Maryland My Maryland (Oh Tannenbaum) ~~~Break~~~
Lulu’s Back in Town Mack the Knife
Oh Baby! Apex Blues
China Boy You are always on my mind
I’ll be Home for Christmas How come you do me like you do?
Let it Snow (with Walk Right In & Alice’s Restaurant)
Shine Sunny Side of the Street
Blue Christmas Medley – Jingle Bells, Saints, Silent Night
South Rampart Street Parade
They started with ‘Oh Christmas Tree’ and one of Fred’s audience quizzes – I believe we ended up with at least 5 titles for this number!
Skip sang several songs, including ‘Lulu’s Back in Town’, ‘Blue Christmas’, ‘Mack the Knife’ and ‘How Come you do me like you do’.
Guest vocalist Andrew Walker sang ‘You are Always on my Mind’.
Andrew Walker listens to band after his vocal on “You Are Always on My Mind”
Noel and Steve played ‘China Boy’ and Bob Card did ‘Sunny Side of the Street’.
Steve Keillor and Noel Kaletsky
Steve and Noel
Heartbeat always puts on a great show and this holiday performance was no exception. By the final number – a medley of the usual ‘Saints’ with ‘Jingle Bells’ and ‘Silent Night’, everyone was singing along and definitely in the Christmas spirit.
Hear Heartbeat every 2nd Thursday at Oliver’s in Essex, CT and every 4th Thursday at Smarty’s.