Mark McKenzie is a Dallas-based saxophonist leading groups with an authentic and accessible sound. Whether in a trio (sax-bass-drums), quartet (sax-piano-bass-drums), or duo (sax-piano or sax-guitar), Mark's music is rooted in the classic straight-ahead jazz of the 1950s and 60s. A typical set includes standards from the Great American Songbook (Kern, Rogers & Hart, Mancini), time-tested tunes from jazz greats (Ellington, Coltrane, Brubeck), and the occasional modern pop cover (Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen). Mark maintains an active schedule in local venues and is available for corporate events, private parties, wedding receptions, restaurants, nightclubs or any live music setting.
We booked the Mark McKenzie Quartet for our wedding and they did not disappoint. They were extremely polite and professional and provided great live music for our ceremony and cocktail hour for an awesome price. Well worth it and I would recommend them to anyone looking for live music at their wedding.
Response from Mark McKenzie Jazz:
We enjoyed Saturday very much. Thanks for letting us be part of your big day, and for the kind review here. Best of luck.
Price Range: Contact for rates
Gig Length: 60 - 300 minutes
Mark McKenzie is a Dallas-based saxophonist leading groups with an authentic and accessible sound. Whether in a trio (sax-bass-drums), quartet (sax-piano-bass-drums), or duo (sax-piano or sax-guitar), Mark's music is rooted in the classic straight-ahead jazz of the 1950s and 60s. A typical set includes standards from the Great American Songbook (Kern, Rogers & Hart, Mancini), time-tested tunes from jazz greats (Ellington, Coltrane, Brubeck), and the occasional modern pop cover (Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen). Mark maintains an active schedule in local venues and is available for corporate events, private parties, wedding receptions, restaurants, nightclubs or any live music setting.
We own a digital piano and a small PA system that is suitable for most venues. All we need from a venue is an electrical outlet.
| May 16, 2015 • 6:30pm - 8:00pm | Wedding Cocktail Hour |
| April 25, 2015 • 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Wedding Ceremony |
Songbook Standards:
At Last
Autumn Leaves
Beautiful Love
Bye Bye Blackbird
Body and Soul
Charade
Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)
Days of Wine and Roses
Dreamsville
Fly Me to the Moon
Have You Met Miss Jones?
How Deep Is The Ocean
How High the Moon
I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
I Hear a Rhapsody
I Love You
I Remember You
If I Were a Bell
It Could Happen to You
It Had to Be You
It Never Entered My Mind
Like Someone in Love
Lover Man
Mack the Knife
My Foolish Heart
My Funny Valentine
My One and Only Love
Moon River
The Nearness of You
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
On Green Dolphin Street
Samba de Orpheus
Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
Someone to Watch Over Me
Star Eyes
Stella By Starlight
Summertime
There Will Never Be Another You
The Way You Look Tonight
Without a Song
What’s New
When I Fall in Love
You and the Night and the Music
You Don’t Know What Love Is
Jazz tunes:
Adam’s Apple
All Blues
Beatrice
Blue Bossa
Bright Mississippi
Caravan
A Child is Born
Come Sunday
Dear Lord
Eiderdown
Good Bait
Heaven
In Walked Bud
Killer Joe
Lonnie's Lament
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Nuages
The Preacher
Recorda-me
Scrapple from the Apple
Sonnymoon For Two
Spiritual (John Coltrane)
Spiritual (Charlie Haden)
Straight, No Chaser
Sugar
Take the "A" Train
Turnaround
Waltz For Debby
Watermelon Man
Work Song
Rock/Pop:
Almost Blue (E. Costello)
Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)
Hallelujah (L. Cohen)
Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)
George Gagliardi originals:
Bossa Retro
In the Lonely Night
Like Lounge, Man!
Morning in Crown Heights
Ole Blue Eyes
Red Lips, Black Fishnets
Spaghetti Western Take II
Touch of James Bondage
Holiday selections available.
| Mark McKenzie | leader/saxophone |
Dallas, TX 
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