Justine Clarke

Jazz standards / quirky Christmas songs

Christmas at Lazybones Lounge with Justine Clarke is now a tradition!

Last year’s X-mas Special with the Greasy Chicken Orchestra was a huge good time for all involved. Let’s do it again this year, even better. More Justine, more Christmas songs and more good cheer.

**Justine Clarke** has been singing jazz all her life, although these days she is best known as a writer/performer of songs for children. She has been a presenter on _PlaySchool_ for 25 years and has released six children’s albums under her own name, mostly in collaboration with **Greasy Chicken Orchestra** pianist Peter Dasent.

She is well known to Australian television audiences for her roles in _Love My Way_, _Tangle_ and the _Time of Our Lives_ In theatre she has had recent critical and popular success in the almost-one-woman play _Julia_.

For the gig with the GCO she will perform some jazz standards, a couple of obscure quirky Christmas songs and her hit children’s song “My Shadow and Me”.

Those who know **The Greasy Chicken Orchestra** will have enjoyed their spirited live shows and will know that they perform in the “Territory Band” tradition of Kansas City, Chicago, and New Orleans jazz of the ’20s and ’30s.

The GCO repertoire includes music from Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Lil Hardin Armstrong, The John Kirby Sextet, Raymond Scott, Scott Joplin, Don Redman, and Duke Ellington. They also play original tunes that pay homage to the style of that music, but with a twist. Their recent CD, _I Cakewalked With A Zombie_ (Earshift) was a featured recording on the ABC and Eastside Radio.

“…The Greasy Chicken Orchestra offers indisputable evidence that jazz is neither dead nor zombie-fied. (They) are truly post- modern in the sense that they address styles, sounds, and songs drawn from well more than a hundred years of jazz.” 

–Will Friedwald, _New York Sun_, 2024.  

Personnel:

**Justine Clarke**: vocals

**Phillip Johnston**: Alto sax

**Peter Farrar**: Alto sax

**Tim Clarkson**: Tenor sax

**James Loughnan**: Baritone sax

**Peter Dasent**: Piano

**Tim Rollinson:** Guitar, banjo

**James Greening**: Tuba

**Nic Cecire**: Drums

7pm Doors/Restaurant 🍷 🍕  
8.30pm Band

The Greasy Chicken Orchestra • Justine Clarke

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The Greasy Chicken Orchestra With Justine Clarke

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