About
Steve Crain is a jazz guitarist for hire in Sydney, NSW.
Steve Crain plays guitar, writes and leads bands around Sydney, and the feel is relaxed rather than showy. He works solo with his own arrangements of jazz standards and pop tunes, sometimes using a looper pedal to build layered guitar parts live underneath himself. From there it scales up: a duo with double bass, a trio adding drums, a quartet with keys or a horn. He studied at the NSW Conservatorium in the early 90s and has spent 25 years playing jazz, blues, gospel, pop and Latin here and overseas. His trio also does instrumental pop and rock sets, jazz attitude on familiar material. Jazz in jeans, not suits. Regular collaborators include Peter Kohlhoff on bass, Andrew Massey on drums and Barney Wakeford on Hammond organ and piano.
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Song list
65 songs
My Romance
Bye Bye Blackbird
Alone Together
Like Someone In Love
The Days of Wine and Roses
It Could Happen To You
There is No Greater Love
Weaver of Dreams
In A Mellow Tone
Tenderly
Someday My Prince Will Come.
West Coast Blues
Chitlin Con Carne
The Sidewinder
Song for My Father
Moanin’
Road Song
Work Song
Killer Joe
Mercy Mercy Mercy
Nostalgia in Times Square
Doxy
Cantaloupe Island
Solar Nardis Sandu