SVETLANA’S BIG BAND
Svetlana’s Big Band, Zinc Bar, NYC, Dec 2018. Photo by Nina Galicheva
About
Svetlana has been a featured soloist with several big bands (including Seth Weaver Big Band, Manhattan School Of Music Big Band, NY Jazz Academy Big Band and more), including her monthly residency at New York's legendary Zinc Bar, with Seth Weave Big Band. Svetlana has premiered her own big band in Dec 2018 to a sold out crowd at the Zinc Bar and went on to perform several sold out engagements at the world famous Birdland Jazz Club (February 2022 and December 2022). Svetlana’s big band combines classic big band sound, thrilling arrangements by the best NYC big band arrangers, and Svetlana's own captivating front woman stage presence and vocals! Svetlana’s Big Band sound reflects the idealism of classic swing bands sounds but also provides thrilling experience that can be appreciated both by the jazz lovers and the 21st century modern audiences alike!
AVAILABLE PROGRAMS:
Jazz at the Movies - Movie Sound-tracks from 1930s to Today
Love Notes - Valentine’s Day Show
American Songbook Classics
Lindy Hop 100 - Tribute to Savoy Ballroom Dance Bands
Swinging Holidays - Jazz for Holiday Season
Night at the Movies - Jazz arrangements of original movie sound-tracks from 1930s to today
Ella 100 Tribute
recent Press
“Toe-tap dance the night away… Serpentine jazz love songs and uplifting originals” TimeOutNY (Best Things to do on Valentines Day in NYC”)
“Exuberant Big Band” New York City Jazz Record
Charmed an all-Manhattanite audience, fronting the Big Band at Zinc Bar” Lucid Culture
“Vividly channeled the deadpan vindictiveness of Ellington’s Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me, and balanced that with an exuberant take of It Had to Be You… It was her original, that made for the best song of the night. It’s an update on classic 30s swing for the here and now. As she hit the chorus, she suddenly rose from a warmly enveloping calm to an eye-opening leap, then she took the audience groundward again…The song ended on a characteristically enigmatic note, a little defeated, a little defiant” New York Music Daily