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This page provides musical samples of our different bands. 17-piece Big Steam Band Swing, Jazz & Latin
Big Steam Band concert VIDEO The following three tracks feature Cal Dodd on vocals Classic Jazz Standards Music & lyrics by Whitney Smith (yes, we do our own stuff, but don't think we can't light a fire on the dance floor at your party) • Take My Hand (arr., Jim McGrath) COME-HITHER RHUMBA, with Cal Dodd • Colourwise (arr., Jim McGrath) BALLAD + VEGAS, with Andrea Kuzmich (from "Swing's Mistress", our first album, Community Records, CR-1230) • Svengali Who (arr., Jim McGrath) MORROCAN À LA MODAL MEETS BIG BAND (from "Swing's Mistress"). Click here for details on the latest Big Steam Band CD featuring Michelle Doyle and Deekaye Ibomeka, "Life Drawing."
Swing House Jazz & Swing
• The More I See You (words by Mack Gordon; music by Harry Warren) • Sometimes I'm Happy (words by Clifford Grey; music by Vincent Youmans) • Just in Time (words by Adolph Green; music by Jule Styne) Carlo Berardinucci, vocals; Joel Haynes, drums; Jon Meier, bass; Whitney Smith, guitar; Jake Wilkinson, trumpet. Produced by Whitney Smith. Executive Producers: Whitney Smith & Carlo Berardinucci. Recorded and mixed by Jeremy Darby at Canterbury Music Co., Toronto, March 25, 2007.
Our Dance Party Band
Our R&B, pop, funk, rock 'n' roll and soul band for your dance party. See our partial list of songs that Electric Steam will play to create an amazing experience for your guests on the dance floor. You tell us what you like and we'll play it!
Sextet à Tête Instrumental Jazz, Swing & Latin composed and arranged by Whitney Smith
• Man From Grey
Channel, DRIVING ROCK IN 7/4 • Waltz for the Nazz, JAZZ POLY-WALTZ Musicians on the above recordings, pictured below: Jeff King, tenor sax; Steve Crowe, trumpet; Tania Gill, piano; Whitney Smith, guitar; Rob McBride, bass; Jesse Baird, drums. Produced by Whitney Smith. Recorded and mixed by Bryden Baird at the Audio Massage Theatre, Toronto (BB@AMT), Nov. 2002.
Sextet à Tête with Vocals • Rosealea
(vocals by Sonja Centafonte, same band as above) Andrea Kuzmich, vocals; Jeff King, tenor sax; Tania Gill, piano; Darius Nargawalla, bass; Whitney Smith, guitar; Joel Haynes, drums. Produced by Whitney Smith. Recorded and mixed by BB@AMT, April 2001. • Bye, Bye
Blackbird (m, Ray Hendersen; w, Mort Dixon) SULTRY MEDIUM SWING Andrea Kuzmich, vocals; Shawn Nykwist, tenor sax;
Jake Wilkinson, trumpet; Mark Hundevad, vibraphone; Whitney Smith,
guitar; Jack McFadden, bass; Kevin Coady, drums. Produced by Whitney Smith. Recorded and mixed
by Jay Elliot at the Rogue Studios, Toronto, September 2000.
The Notebooks of Lucy Strath (A work-in-progress) • Drift & Misery, FOLK MARCH (Compare this with the Big Steam Band version on "Life Drawing.") Whitney Smith, vocals; Kurt Swinghammer, guitar;
Maury LaFoy, bass; Jeff McPherson, drums; Lenny Solomon, violin;
Todd Lumley, piano. Recorded and mixed by James Paul at the Rogue,
January 1999. Produced by Kurt Swinghammer and Maury LaFoy. Whitney Smith Trio • Colourwise * This track used on Big Steam Band album, “Swing’s Mistress,” with guitar.
• The Magic Word, SAMBA. Melanie Phillipson, vocals; Tien Young, piano; Whitney Smith, guitar. Recorded and mixed by BB@AMT, September 2002 Licensing All tracks are available for licensing or purchase (except the first three Big Steam Band tracks) as individual tracks or in EP form (set of 4) by contacting us. Compositions are also available for re-composing, recording or mixing to specific needs. All original tracks may be used for temp scores without permission. Catalogue recordings are composed, arranged and produced by Whitney Smith (unless otherwise noted), registered by SOCAN and currently published by Community Records. Sale of particular publishing rights may be available. Use of recordings written by other composers is subject to permission by their publishers. If you require other music, please contact us. We might already have what you're looking for, or we could make it for you. Selected Projects Excerpt from "The Illustrated Radio" is a two minute selection from a ten minute audio art piece by Whitney Smith produced as the introduction to the production of "Radio Ghost", a musical shadowplay by Whitney Smith and Victor Coleman that they toured across Canada in 1983. "The Illustrated Radio" features the voices of Smith, Coleman and Marien Lewis reading from the Tom Clark poem, "Radio," with music by Steve McCaffery (saxophone), Whitney Smith (guitar) and Jeff Cutler* (drums) and clips from historic radio broadcasts. *Jeff Cutler was the first musician Whitney met. When they grew up next door from each other at 21 and 23 Munro Blvd. in the Toronto suburb of York Mills, Jeff, who was seven years older, was frequently seen loading drums into the back of an automobile. On some occasions while doing this he was seen wearing a purple tuxedo with a pink ruffled shirt. (Some consider that this image of the working musician is to blame for the irrepressible spell that music has exerted on Whitney.) Years later, the two met randomly when "The Illustrated Radio" was being produced and Whitney invited Jeff into the studio to record this track. While chatting between takes Jeff revealed that he no longer owned a purple tuxedo or pink shirt of any kind.
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