About
Tristan Watson is a solo pianist and singer for hire in Brisbane, QLD.
Piano and voice at the same time, from a musician who came up through the Queensland Conservatorium with a jazz performance degree and studied under Steve Newcombe and James Sandon. Tristan Watson held a residency as vocalist and pianist at Mix bar in Woolloongabba while studying, and has played Jazz and Shiraz Moreton Bay and the Moreton Bay Food and Wine Festival. Sets run 45 minutes with a 15 minute break, and the songbook moves from In a Sentimental Mood, Autumn Leaves and Fly Me to the Moon through Moondance and Ain't No Sunshine into Roxanne, Englishman in New York and No Aphrodisiac. All he needs is a power outlet. Public liability cover is in place.
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The show
One musician, two jobs at once. Tristan Watson sings while he plays, so the piano is carrying the arrangement and the vocal sits on top of it, live in the room with no backing track underneath. Sets run 45 minutes, then he takes a quarter of an hour off before the next one starts, which gives a dinner service or a speech a natural window. The playing is the drawcard here rather than any patter between numbers.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured
Song list
32 songs
1. In a sentimental mood - Instrumental
2. Do Nothing till you hear from me
3. Pennies from Heaven
4. I Can’t give you anything but love
5. What is this thing called love
6. Lullaby of the Leaves
7. The Best things in Life are free
8. Moondance
9. Cheek to Cheek
10. I wish you love
Set 2
11. Fly me to the moon
12. Stray cat strut
13. Autumn leaves
14. Miss Jones
15. Whinin boy moan
16. Mack the knife
17. Why don’t you do right
18. Just the Two of Us
19. Aint no Sunshine
20. Crazy
Set 3
21. No Aphrodisiac
22. Roxanne
