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Elegant M

                             

                                       Vintage vocal jazzzz...

Elegant M performs jazz favorites from the 1920's through the early 1950's.  Elegantly dressed in formal attire, the quartet includes voice, piano, bass and drums.    Elegant M also performs as a trio for more intimate venues.

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Elegant M (Quartet)
go If You Never Come Back to Me, by Antonio Carlos Jobim
go I’m Beginning to See the Light, by Duke Ellington

Elegant M Intimate (Trio)
go Someone to Watch Over Me, by George Gershwin

Upcoming Performances

Valentine's Day Dinner
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Eagles Lodge, Eugene, Oregon

Eugene Ballet Casino Night

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Valley River Inn, Eugene

Who is Elegant M?

Marieke Schuurs Elegant M is a result of the creative collaboration between Marieke Schuurs and Allan Stuart.  Both tremendously talented and skilled musicians, they chanced to meet in the summer of 2009 in Eugene, Oregon.  A classically trained singer, Marieke had been performing jazz with local artists since 2003.  She wanted more expressive freedom and a more intimate performance experience than classical performing had been providing.  She was especially inspired by the great artists of classic jazz, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Bessie Smith, as well as Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Antonio Jobim and other second-generation jazz singers.  She loves harmonic complexity and the musical give and take between players. 



Allan StuartAllan came from Colorado to Eugene.  In demand as a solo piano performer and composer, he played in five star resorts in Vail and Aspen, as well as cruise ships and venues around the world.  Allan was looking for musical satisfaction when he and Marieke met.  He wanted to create a group of players of the highest musical caliber.   He and Marieke began to explore their common jazz interests, put their charts together and meld their styles.  Whitney Moulton, bassist and composer, and Mark Powers, percussionist, were soon added to round out the group.  Although new as a group, they are all individually well established musicians, each with their own story and website.  To learn more about each one, check out Elegant M's press kit page.

 

Marieke Schuurs

 

Song List

Ain't Misbehavin'

All of Me

All or Nothing at All

All the things you are

Angel Eyes

April in Paris

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Serenade

Black Coffee

Black Orpheus

Bluesette

Blue Moon

Centerpiece

Cheek to Cheek

Come rain or come shine

Crazy he calls me

Cry me a River

Desafinado

Dindi

Don't get around much anymore

Falling in Love Again

Fly me to the Moon

A Foggy Day

Fools rush in

Four

Gee Baby, Ain't I good to you

God bless the Child

Honeysuckle Rose

How high the Moon

I wish you love

I'll remember April

I'm a fool to want you

I'm beginning to see the light

If you never come back to me

In a sentimental mood

It don't mean a thing

It's all right with me

Java Jive

Long ago and far away

La vie en Rose

Lullaby of Broadway

Lush Life

Mad about the Boy

Makin' Whoopie

Midnight sun

My foolish heart

My funny Valentine

My one and only love

Nature Boy

Night and Day

Peel me a grape

Prelude to a Kiss

'Round midnight

Someone to watch over me

Spring can really hang you up the most

Stairway to the Stars

These foolish things

They can't take that away from me

Triste

Twisted

When Sunny gets blue

Willow, weep for me

You'd better go now