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The Singapore Slingers

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Genres
  
Jazz, Dance

Labels
  
Jazzador Records

Genre
  
Jazz

Members
  
Matt Tolentino

Years active
  
2007 (2007)–Present

Website
  
The Singapore Slingers

Record label
  
Jazzador Records

Albums
  
The Frank Skinner Project

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Associated acts
  
Matt Tolentino, The Royal Klobasneks

Origin
  
Dallas, Texas, United States

Similar
  
Henry Hall & His Orc, Jim Suhler, Henry Hall, Mike Zito

Midnight the stars and you performed by the singapore slingers


The Singapore Slingers are an eighteen-member orchestra based in Dallas, Texas that specializes in performing pre-swing American dance music, with a particular focus on popular songs of the 1920s and early 1930s. They have been called the "coolest, quirkiest, retro jazz group" in Dallas by the local press. They are the only group of their kind in Dallas, with a repertoire that regularly features fox trots, waltzes, marches, one-steps, two-steps, rags, tangos, and rumbas. The band was formed in late 2007 by Dallas native Matt Tolentino, and continues under his direction, normally consisting of four reeds, three brass, five rhythm players, and a string section including three violins, a viola, a cello, and a string bass. The Singapore Slingers were nominated in the category "Best Jazz Act" for the 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards, and were named Best Pre-Swing Jazz Orchestra by the Dallas Observer in 2011.

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The Singapore Slingers perform regularly at venues all over Dallas. Bandleader Tolentino plays many instruments, including clarinet, tuba, bass saxophone, ukulele, banjo, piano, and accordion. Much of the band’s repertoire utilizes orchestrations of Tin Pan Alley tunes popularized by the likes of the Mills Brothers, Duke Ellington, the Club Royal Orchestra, Paul Whiteman, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Marx Brothers films, and other sources, and stays true to vintage arrangements from composers such as Skinner, Von Tilzer, Warren, and Rodgers and Hart. Performances often feature thematic costuming by Tolentino, such as dressing up as a sheik for a show titled “A Night in the Orient.”

The singapore slingers at the kessler theater


Discography

  • When Summer Is Gone (CD) (2010)
  • Midnight, The Stars, And You (CD) (Matt Tolentino solo project) (2011)
  • The Frank Skinner Project (CD) (2014)
  • Songs

    Happy Days Are Here AgainThe Frank Skinner Project · 2014
    When Summer Is Gone2010
    The Sheik of Araby2010

    References

    The Singapore Slingers Wikipedia