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For your upcoming wedding reception, next corporate dinner party, private festival, or special event, consider having the Soft Note add the extra class that always makes any social complete. As the band enters 2006, we are looking forward to another wonderful year to sharing our services and talents for your next event.
2005 Engagements
Fiesta for The General, Officer's Club, Redstone Arsenal, Al. Jan. 8
Alzheimer's Association Fundraiser Art Exhibit, 801 Franklin, Huntsville, Al., Jan 22
Fiesta at The El Olmeca Mexican Restaurant, Hampton Cove, Huntsville, Al. Feb. 5
Birmingham International Festival, Mexico Event, Los Angeles Neuvo Latino Cuisine, Birmingham, Al. February 24
El Olmeca Mexican Restaurant, Hampton Cove, Huntsville, Al. March 5
Fiesta for Redstone Village Community, Huntsville, Al. April 6
El Olmeca Mexican Restaurant, Hampton Cove, Huntsville, Al. April 9
Birmingham International Festival Event, Birmingham, Alabama, April 23
Deltas Private Party, Huntsville Realtors Board, Huntsville, Alabama, May 21
Glenn Miller Orchestra, Opening Act, Alzheimers Assoc. Fundraiser, VBC, Huntsville, Al. June 18
PRIVATE FIESTA, Ellis Family, Good Shepard Catholic Parish Center, Huntsville, Al. July 17
Private Party Deltas, Huntsville, Al. Oct. 12
Other Engagements From Prior Years
References From Past Engagements
Sample 45 Minute Set List
Click on Link to Hear Full Sample of Studio Recording
| TUNE | TYPE |
| This Guy's In Love With You | Herb Alpert Tune In Bolero Style |
| Guantanamera | Guajira (Cuban) |
| Oye Como Va | Latin Rock/Pop (by Santana) |
| All of Me | Swing |
| Lambada | Traditional Latin Music (Puerto Rican Folk) |
| Girl From Ipanema | Bossa Nova (by Carlos Jobim - Brazilian) |
| Mambo Inn | Latin Jazz (by Mario Bauza - Cuban) |
| Days of Wine and Roses | Gershwin - Swing or Bolero |
| For Hayden | Original - Latin Pop Style |
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Funky Jazz |
Background
The Soft Note Combo, founded in September 1996 by trumpeter Luis Trevino, has been entertaining audiences throughout the Tennessee Valley in music festivals, restaurants, wedding receptions, and private corporate parties. Since their debut at Cesar’s Italian Cafe in Madison Alabama, the band has evolved from playing jazz to a variety of music, including vocals and Latin percussion. The styles of jazz, pop, boleros, bossa novas (Brazilian jazz), guajira, and soft rock are predominantly performed in their performances. Including some originals, cover tunes performed by the Soft Note Combo include those by Herb Alpert, Santana, Duke Ellington, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.The band features Marlene Brown on keyboard, Jesus Galvan on drums and backup vocals, Luis Trevino on trumpet & vocals, and George West on bass guitar and vocals.
Soft Note Combo Performing at NASA Retirement Dinner, Von Braun Civic Center
March 23, 2001
Instrumentation
The band performs as a quartet and occasionally as a trio utilizing the instrumentation of vocals, trumpet, electric bass, keyboard or guitar, drum kit, congas, and an assortment of Latin percussion: maracas, clave, Cuban guiro, and shakers. Although the band members are now based in the Tennessee Valley, they bring their wealth of culture and musical experiences from abroad. Coupled with the jazz roots of the other musicians, the overall presentation of the band is indeed unique.