B Sharp

B Sharp is a seventeen piece Melbourne big band, and they play the charts at full size because that's how the arrangers wrote them. Founder and director Henry Kovacevic assembled the line-up from Australian jazz and session players to work through Basie, Ellington, Goodman and Miller, with guest vocalists on material made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, Sinatra, Bobby Darin and Peggy Lee. Some of those arrangements had gone unplayed in this country for years. The band launched in September 2003 at Melbourne's Forum Theatre in front of more than 600 people and has been building an audience since. Matching suits, custom art-deco music stands, and a sound built for dancing.