Nat Ahrens: Drums Courtney Bain: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet Peter Eckert: Vocals, Trumpet Anup Mistry: Keys Jacob Traeger: Trombone Sophie Zerner: Vocals
Influences
Although we each have many individual influences, there is one thing that holds us together as a band, influence-wise;
"Our passion for our music"
Music is something we all thrive on, and we really hope that we are able to show that and share it through our playing.
Peter Eckert This lead male vocalist has always had a love for singing. Pete has been regularly singing publicly in the last couple of years, and has had many audiences stunned with his amazing vocal talents.
Pete may be our lead male vocals, but he is also an asset with his abilities on the trumpet. Pete has been a master of the Brass for the last 5 years, with trumpet and tuba under his belt, having again blown audiences away with his beautiful brass tones.
Pete's love for music is for the simplest reason - "music just sounds so good".
Pete hasn't necessarily been influenced by anyone - he has just always enjoyed music of all sorts!
Jacob Traeger Traegs has been playing trombone for 7 years. He decided to to take up the bone because he was intrigued by the slide.
Traegs' love for music began when he was 10, and since then has become an integral part of his life, to the point that he struggles to comprehend the thought of living without it. His passion for jazz stems from early childhood experiences of listening to his mother's Glenn Miller CDs. As a result his music is heavily influenced by the Big Band era, and the playing musicians such as JJ Johnson and Curtis Fuller.
Other musical influences on Traegs include Sonia Radford and his current teacher Bob Hower.
Traegs' songwriting career began at the tender age of 12 where he wrote and performed a piece of music with Andrew O'Loughlin for his year 8 class. He has since gone on to compose many more pieces, including some now played by The Sentimentals
Anup Mistry
Nuppy has been playing music for 7 years, the first 3 of which were spent with an older lady who didn't like him because he hated theory and always just wanted to play. The piano always fascinated him, with its ability to be melodramatic, sad, exciting, and the way it sets the mood. Nuppy quit piano for a year or so and taught himself jazz, and in the process discovering an interest in Ray Charles, Oscar Peterson (an amazing pianist) and Miles Davis, and these artists helped him to develop some rhythm. He first began to teach himself to improvise after discovering Blues, and after the year or so he met Frankie Bull. Frankie is a Jazz Pianist who taught Nuppy how to imrpovise, because Jazz “is like art: good to look at but there's always a story behind it.”
Nuppy thoroughly enjoys music and it is a major part of my life. Through jazz and jazz chords, he tells the story of his life and through blues, he tells the blues in my life. “Just give me the key and I’ll open the door to anything on that piano.”
Other musicians who have had an impact on Nuppy are Duke Ellington, The Beatles, and especially John Lennon.
Courtney Bain UPDATED
Courtney ‘bangers’ Bain has played music ever since the days of Yr8 band...which thankfully didn’t turn him off of music forever. He was a committed member of various school ensembles, including Concert band on clarinet, prior to Yr10, when he was inspired by its deep and dulcet tones to take up the bass clarinet which he continued to play this until graduating at Tatachilla. Following this, because of his fine-tuned ability, he was invited to join ‘The Sentimentals’ as a perfectly apt bass guitar replacement. He has since expanded his mainly traditional music upbringing (Harry Chapin anyone?) to include the wonderful sounds of the jazz world, which have finally taught him to almost improvise a bass line. The long dusty clarinet, which sat in its case alone for 3 years has also been pulled out to bring some variety to the table. This has added another dimension to the bands ‘sound.’ Sounds such as The Beatles, Harry Chapin, Harry Nilsson, Meatloaf and The Wiggles pounded in his budding eardrums while growing up but however, nowadays, almost anything except rap and feeds his listening hunger.
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A love for music has allowed us musicians to form together to continue playing music after we finish High School.
We are always continuing to build our repertoire and also plan to compose a few of our own pieces soon.
Currently our band consists of; Pete, Traegs, Nuppy, Nat, Sophie and Courtney who combined play piano, sax, trombone, trumpet, bass clarinet, drums and sing.
Maybe you'd like to know a bit about us as a group?
Well, up to this point, there's not really a lot to tell!
Pete, Nuppy and Courtney have been at school together since Primary school, and along with Traegs, have spent the last five years together at high school.
Even so, I don't think that any of us, even months ago, would have imagined that we would be together in a band
But here we are - and thats the great thing!
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Our repertoire so far consists of a number of Jazz pieces, as well as works by groups such as the Beatles, and others!
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OH MY GOD ARE YOU GONNA BE A FAGGOT ALL YOUR LIFE PETER WE WERE TRYING TO SAVE THE 100TH COMMENT THEN SOMEONE WOULD WIN A CD FFS YOU IDIOT NOW WE HAVE TO WAIT TIL THE 200TH COMMENT AND OUR NEXT CD...far out peter...thats something i would expect traegs to do (no offense traegs) grrr idiot now im grumbly alright everyone have collective good ones and yes peter as much as i am the one that told you that it is true that we are having a jam thursday i will tell you again: we are having a jam thursday...even im coming (whoa) so yes...back to uni work...still cant believe you peter *shakes head*...right bye everyone...
i think we need an incentive for people to comment...and seeing as we have 98 comments now...howbout...the 100th comment gets a free cd...if they ever get burnt...thats incentivity...k...people better start commenting now...and no traegs you cant get the free cd cos that would be just silly...right...theres my comment grabbing idea anyone else got any strokes of genius? let us know then...after the 100th comment...k whos ready for the rush of comments...i know i am...right bye
man we are so cool everyone comments us...losers...pretty sure the cd needs to get burnt and put out to wineries so we can get some gigs...or else we are just gonna never get comments ever again in our lives...
hey bogans that song is hot as! whoever recorded it was a gun.... i was 2 lazy 2 look through my friends list 2 find ur page so i just typed in the sentimentals in2 the search n there is a melbourne band called the sentimentals 2 so if ur ever thinking about bein big or anything u might want 2 look into that matter. anyhoo i'm gonna go paint the chickents, toodles
is anyone gonna give me a copy of the unmixed version?? i would like one! and soph prob would too whens the next jam? we should get together at phils or whatever and mix it together...unless u dont want to bother, in which case i wouldnt mind, so long as it gets done :) mentalize me baby
PICK ME! I love recording...life atm on the other hand...whos pumped 2 the the finished mixed copy??? i havent listened 2 nething but the unmixed 1 since i got it...sad, i kno
woooo who loves recording?...anyone?...haha nah it was fun...im still screwed from it though...*sigh*...listening to the unedited version and it sounds good who else agrees? haha alright im gone cya guys woo lets get the cd out and cranking...:P as nuppy would say...right cya (Y)
hahahaha yeah...we started abysmally...when a miscommunication regarding the actual tempo of watermelon man rendered the song into some sort of ballad...which was promptly rectified by a gradual increase from the original tempo to something remotely resembling the regular tempo of the song...haha but nah apart from that and a few hiccups in the first half i think we went ok...outside opinions would be good too...:P...yep well done again guys have fun doing whatever you are doing this fine saturday night...i know where nuppy traegs pete and i will be :P haha alright see you later (Y)
il rock all of your boats til none of them are floating cos theres no water left in a sec...yeah you heard me...:P random go sentimentals woo yep in case it doesnt say up the top we are playing THIS FRIDAY THE 29TH OF JUNE AT MCLAREN FLAT COMMUNITY CLUB FROM 6:30ISH AT THE MDSC SCHNITZEL NIGHT COME DOWN FOR A CHEAP FEED AND SOME JAZZY JAZZ :P haha another plug alright cya later guys (Y) woo
Nice! But like, how does that work? I thought you were in the sentimentals boat. is like, your boat, the sentimentals boat so like, cos we're all on it and playing awesome music it is rocking? geeze i am bored *rolls eyes* *hides in corner* :P
