SNAKE DAVIS BAND 9pm (Doors 7pm) 'Classic Sax Solos'

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CLASSIC SAX SOLOS

The hugely popular Classic Sax Solos show continues to tour and see’s Snake Davis step into a 5 piece band (keys, drums, bass, guitar and vocals. We've taken on board suggestions from audiences's of additional tunes they'd like to hear and constantly add more to the set list. With 2 albums packed full of tracks and these additional requests, the songs performed are constantly changing and you're always guaranteed to hear some absolute sax classics.

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So many people love the sound of a great saxophone solo and for good reason. In the right hands sax is so emotional, so passionate; it sings, screams, whispers. An instrumental solo can break hearts, lift spirits, even change lives.

Snake performs a myriad of classics, including Baker Street, Careless Whisper, Still Crazy after all these Years, Respect, Yakety Yak, and his own solos from Million Love Songs, Moving on Up, Search for the Hero, and Lisa Stansfields 'Change'. What’s more, he also tells you a bit more about them, fascinating facts and insights into the music we already love.

Imagine a room full of the saxophone greats; Junior Walker, King Curtis, Clarence Clemmons, Charlie Parker, Michael Brecker and more. Snake can deliver them all; challenging – yes, but he completely nails it. Sultry sax, searing sax, screaming sax, sexy sax, soulful sax, this show has it all.

Snake Davis on Saxes & Vocals, Gareth Moulton or Chris Bannister on Guitar & Vocals, Stuart Collingwood on Keys, Bryan Hargreaves on Drums & Simon Goulding on Bass.

Snake Davis is one of the music world’s best kept secrets. He is a saxophonist of almost unparalleled gifts who has played with the best in the business through a career spanning three decades.

Yet it wasn’t until he reached the age of 20 that he picked up his first saxophone. He enrolled on the diploma course in jazz and light music at Leeds College of Music funded by busking and gig money. It was here that he met and made many of his life long friends and gained the great experience of disciplined ensemble playing. The much loved “Snake Davis and his Alligator Shoes”, the nine piece soul band were formed, playing 60’s soul music with the sax taking the vocal parts.

After college, Snake spent several years travelling, playing on cruise boats briefly setting up home in Brooklyn getting tuition from hot players and visiting some of the best jazz clubs in America.

Back in England, he joined the soul revue band “Zoot and the Roots” started his long career as a session musician and first met Lisa Stansfield. The rest, as they say, is history.

To date, Snake Davis has recorded on more than 400 tracks for over 60 artists and the list keeps growing. That’s not even counting all of the live performances! These are some of his career highlights to date:-

  • Sax Solo on cult television show “The Tube”
  • World Tour with Lisa Stansfield
  • “Tonight with Jonathon Ross”
  • 1993 The start of his long association with M-People
  • Plays himself as band leader in “The Paradise Club” ITV series
  • Presents a Masterclass on Tyne tees, Granada and Yorkshire TV
  • World “Peace” tour with The Eurythmics
  • Saxophonist on Paul Hardcastle JazzMasters Series
  • First Solo album commercially available released – Snakebites
  • First of many tours with Japanese rock star Eikichi Yazawa
  • Digital single “Human Nature” record of the week on JazzFM
  • Human Nature No.1 on smooth jazz single charts with CDBaby
  • World Premiere of SnakeStrings
  • Appearance on BBC1 “The One Show” with Chris Evans, Alex Jones and Gary Barlow – feature on The Solo’s The Star for his sax on “A Million Love Songs”
  • Two of his students were BBC Young Musician of the Year finalists in 2014 and Jess Gillam was runner up in 2016
  • Klingande and Faul & Ad Wad used his sax riffs on three European chart hits, reaching number 1 in the dance charts in the summer of 2014.
  • Snake's performances were included as part of the City of Culture celebration in Hull in 2017
  • In March 2020 the Covid-19 lockdown saw the start of Snake as an internet livestream artist with 3 shows and a sax workshop each week throughout the period.

Snake plays soprano, alto, tenor and baritone Saxes, Shakuhachi, Flutes, Whistles and Vocals. He also composes and works as an educator, examiner and music director.

The video below was the very first outing of Classic Sax Solos - at the University of Central Lancaster (UCLAN)

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