Hetty Kate - Voice 
James Sherlock - Guitar +  Alex Gilson - Double Bass
Live with a Studio Audience

Recorded at Studio Microclimat in Epinal, France
Mixed / Mastered / Edited by Dominique Marotel

September 2022

Moon and Sand (with James Sherlock and Alex Gilson) Live : Sept 2022

More Than You Know (with James Sherlock and Alex Gilson) Live : Sept 2022

This album will be available on iTunes in early May.

Celebrated ‘King of Swing’, New York pianist Gordon Webster, met Melbourne’s Hetty Kate on the bandstand at Jumptown Jam 2013 amidst a crowded dance hall full of twirling skirts and dapper gentlemen. Thanks to Swing Patrol, Jumptown Swing and exuberant supportive dancers, Gordon and Hetty recorded an album in New York last October.. and they’re thrilled to launch it in 2014.

This couldn’t have been done without the love and support of Australia’s swing scene, and we’re so thrilled that we had the opportunity to collaborate together WITH YOU and make the first USA and Australian dance cd. This album has also been generously sponsored by Swing Patrol Australia and Jumptown Swing in Canberra! Thank you! x

About Gordon and Hetty

Well Gordon barely needs any introduction as he’s the number one pianist and bandleader for dancers, Gordon Webster regularly tours around the world, often invited to Europe and Asia as well as touring regularly across the USA. Drawing on influences as diverse as Fats Waller, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson and Gene Harris, Gordon passionately serves up a smorgasbord of styles unified by one characteristic.. irresistible danceability! (www.gordonwebsterswings.com)

Pure of tone, sweet sounding and dangerously infectious, Melbourne jazz vocalist Hetty Kate can be seen singing to packed dance floors for Jumptown Jam, Canberrang, MLX, Blues Before Sunrise, Southern Blues and soon Brisbane Lindy Exchange. Never short of a quick quip and a blue lyric to make your partner smile, Hetty sings from the heart.. and has made a name for herself singing at both Blues and Lindy events around the country. (www.hettykate.com)

You can also visit Swing Patrol Australia here: www.swingpatrol.com.au and
Jumptown Swing here: www.jumptown.org

Thanks for listening! www.gordonmeetshetty.com

I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City - Gordon Webster Meets Hetty Kate (2014)

Hetty Kate Please Don't Bug Me

Hetty Kate Romance Without Finance

Hetty Kate Blah Blah Blah

The Twenty 20s are a six-piece 50's inspired, surf-lounge-new-wave-exotica-americana band, they are plucked from Melbourne's most inventive, swingin' and quirky musical avenues and they are the hot pick of Blues& Roots, Swing, Americana, Classical, Big Band and Zydeco music. This album has atmospheric originals, surprising covers and a small selection of historical American classic songs - and cameo appearances from well known and loved cats from the Melbourne scene. A record for falling in love.
Songs made famous by Buddy Holly, The Buzzcocks, Julie London, Peggy Lee, Devo and Paul Williamson's Hammond Combo.. Band members - Hetty Kate, Dale Lindrea, Steve Purcell, Vinnie Bourke, Dean Hilson and Sharky Ramos.
Run your fingers over soft leather seats, listening to Bowie in a '59 Chrysler driving along a moonlit sunset boulevard, underwater dancing to whalesong.. laser beams and lip gloss...
Recorded all in the one room, over one year, in busy Belmar Studios in Altona - by band leader, bassist and composer Steve Purcell (Boof!, The Pearly Shells) mixed by Steve Purcell and Nicky Bomba (Bomba, John Butler Trio) and mastered by David Briggs (Little River Band).

Raining In My Heart : The Twenty 20s (2011)

Recorded live at our concert in the iconic and intimate room at Woods Hole by Tony Vallance (Produced by Tom Renshaw)
January 25th 2015 - Woods Hole Massachusetts
Band is Hetty Kate - Voice; Gordon Webster - Piano; Danny Lipsitz - Reeds; Rob Adkins - Double Bass; Andreas Svendsen - Drums.

Busy Line (Live)

British-Australian jazz vocalist Hetty Kate begins "Jazz in Four Seasons," an ambitious four-album series: four albums, four seasons, four cities. 

The first volume, "Spring" was recorded in Prague with four of the city's finest jazz musicians, blending timeless standards from Ellington to Brubeck with the distinctive voice of Czech artistry. 

For this debut single, Hetty chose Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved "It Might As Well Be Spring", a song rich with delicious irony. In the original 1945 film State Fair, the song is sung in winter by a character yearning for spring's arrival, feeling "as restless as a willow in a windstorm" despite the season. Now, decades later, Hetty releases this ode to spring as Northern Hemisphere audiences prepare for winter's embrace, while her native Southern Hemisphere welcomes the season itself. This temporal paradox perfectly captures the nomadic spirit of Hetty's project. 

The song's inherent restlessness, that jumpy, anticipatory energy, transcends hemispheres and calendars, speaking to anyone caught between seasons, between places, between moments of transformation.

Hetty's interpretation, arranged in an unconventional meter, honors the standard's enduring charm while revealing fresh dimensions. Accompanied by four of Prague's most accomplished jazz musicians, this first single from "Jazz in Four Seasons: Spring, Vol. 1" invites listeners to accompany her on a multi-year musical odyssey across the changing seasons.

www.jazzinfourseasons.com  |  www.hettykate.com  |  office@hettykate.com

It Might As Well Be Spring

It Might As Well Be Spring - Jazz in Four Seasons, Spring Vol. 1

// Feel free to comment.. we'd love to hear your thoughts! //

A pre-release track from the 2016 album "The Umbrella Man", a collaboration between Hetty Kate and outstanding swing band 'The Dan Mclean Hot Six' from Canberra, Australia. This album has been crafted with the lindy-hop community in mind, but even if you have two left feet we hope you'll enjoy it!

The Dan Mclean Hot Six (www.danmcleanhotsix.com) are an energetic and creative band, lead by lead trumpet player Dan Mclean. They're the hottest band out of Australia's capital city and always infuse their music with spontaneity and fun! Their live shows are something to behold!

Hetty Kate first met Dan when she was performing with famed US pianist and band leader Gordon Webster - and has continued a musical relationship with him.. visiting Canberra as often as she can. Hetty and Dan have performed together for Jumptown Swing's "Jumptown Jam" and "Canberräng" both huge weekends on the Australian Lindy-Hop calendar.. as well as Savoy Dance's "Slowdown", Canberra's newest dance weekend specialising in slow Lindy and Blues.

You Was Right, Baby - 112bpm
Written By Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour (1945)

Visit www.theumbrellaman.com.au to find out tour dates and the latest news!

Recorded in July 2015
By Greg Stott (Mixed and Mastered by Greg Stott)
at Mark Sutton's 'HiHat Music Studio' in Canberra.

Band is: Dan Mclean, Valdis Thomann, Greg Stott, Wayne Kelly, James Luke and Mark Sutton.

You Was Right, Baby (The Umbrella Man 2016) 112bpm

// Feel free to comment.. we'd love to hear your thoughts! //

(Recorded / Mixed / Mastered by Greg Stott at Hi Hat Studio in Canberra 2015-2016)

A track from the 2016 album "The Umbrella Man", a collaboration between Hetty Kate and outstanding swing band 'The Dan Mclean Hot Six' from Canberra, Australia. This album has been crafted with the lindy-hop community in mind, but even if you have two left feet we hope you'll enjoy it!

The Dan Mclean Hot Six (www.danmcleanhotsix.com) are an energetic and creative band, lead by lead trumpet player Dan Mclean. They're the hottest band out of Australia's capital city and always infuse their music with spontaneity and fun! Their live shows are something to behold!

Hetty Kate first met Dan when she was performing with famed US pianist and band leader Gordon Webster - and has continued a musical relationship with him.. visiting Canberra as often as she can. Hetty and Dan have performed together for Jumptown Swing's "Jumptown Jam" and "Canberräng" both huge weekends on the Australian Lindy-Hop calendar.. as well as Savoy Dance's "Slowdown", Canberra's newest dance weekend specialising in slow Lindy and Blues.

You Irritate Me So
Written By Cole Porter

Visit www.theumbrellaman.com.au to find out more and grab a copy of the album.

Recorded in July 2015
By Greg Stott (Mixed and Mastered by Greg Stott)
at Mark Sutton's 'HiHat Music Studio' in Canberra.

Band is: Dan Mclean, Valdis Thomann, Greg Stott, Wayne Kelly, James Luke and Mark Sutton.

You Irritate Me So - The Umbrella Man (2016)

"Stop Searching For Love" written by Eric McCusker & Jake Mason
An original song from the musical AVA (at the end of the world) by Eric McCusker. Performed at The Famous Spiegeltent in March 2013.

Shared with kind permission from Eric McCusker.

Ava Gardner - Hetty Kate
Frank Sinatra - David Bowers
Joe "Bebop" Lane - Josh Kyle

For most of the ‘50s American actress Ava Gardner was called “The most beautiful woman in the world”. In 1959, aged 36 she was hired to come to Melbourne, Australia to star in “On The Beach”, a film about a nuclear war. Ava was famously quoted as saying “They picked the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world”. But she never actually said this, it was invented by a reporter, from a Sydney newspaper!

Ava’s battles with the Australian press, and the pestering of the Melbourne public, combined with the extreme heat, dust and flies at the end of a long Aussie drought, made her stay a real trial which she bore with professional discipline. Then in the last two weeks of filming she let her guard down in the company of a group of Melbourne jazz musicians that she had befriended, and the real Ava emerged, hard drinking, a wild party girl, a great broad! She grew especially close to her film double Grace Maxwell and a young Jazz singer Joe Lane. And then…her former husband, Frank Sinatra arrived, ostensibly to do some shows but intent on winning her back. Suddenly Melbourne found itself the backdrop to high drama and high times featuring world stars and show biz greats.

“AVA (at the end of the world)” is about what happened in those two amazing weeks.

Ava at the End of the World - Musical

Stop Searching For Love

Stop Searching For Love (Ava At The End Of The World)

Song written by Harry Warren & Arthur Freed

The 2017 EP : Azure-Te (Paris Blues).. this selection of songs from the 40's and 50's paint a vignette of Hetty's experience and feelings as she moved from her Melbourne home to begin a new adventure in Paris. Recorded with James Sherlock (on both rhythm and lead guitars) you'll hear the pretty and often requested French song 'Tout Doucement' as well as Hetty's ode to caffeine 'Coffee Time' (dedicated to Melbourne of course) and her favourite Tadd Dameron ballad 'If You Could See Me Now'. 

Only 300 copies have been pressed and printed, they're perfect as a gift or to add to your music collection. Hetty will be selling these EPs during her Australian tour between 27 October - 13 December. Show are listed on her Facebook page.

All orders will be sent out from Melbourne, Australia within 5 business days. Thanks for looking, and have a cup of coffee!

Hetty Kate - Voice
James Sherlock - Guitars

Recorded with Niko Schauble (Pughouse Studios, Northcote)
Vocals recorded with Jean-Luc Arramy (Megaramix Studios, Paris)
Mixed by Jean-Luc Arramy / Mastered by Lachlan Carrick

Azure-Te (Limited Edition)

Coffee Time (Azure Te EP 2017)

"In January 2017, I moved by myself from Melbourne Australia to Paris France. I can’t tell you one particular reason why, but I can tell you I was ready, and it felt right. Moving to Paris was, and is, one of the most rewarding and challenging things I’ve ever done.

I love to sing standards, and I chose these beautiful songs to represent the myriad emotions I felt before, during and after my arrival. I flew away from the people and the things I love to try something new, and as I tumbled into France, brave, joyful, hopeful and unprepared, I broke my heart and fell in love again a million times. Sometimes great distance allows us to see clearly, and sometimes absence does make the heart grow fonder.

Many of these songs are for friends who were kind to me, friends who have inspired me, and friends I miss when I’m either in France or Australia. So, it’s fitting to think of this album as a love song, to two cities, to new and old friends, and to being brave.

This album took a somewhat meandering path along the boulevards of Paris before it reached its final destination. Now that it’s here, I hope you enjoy it." Hetty Kate x
credits
released November 1, 2019

Voice - Hetty Kate
Guitars - James Sherlock
Double Bass - Ben Hanlon

Recorded in 2017 and 2018 in Australia

Recorded by Niko Schauble at Pughouse Studios, Australia
Mixed by Jake Mason at Soul Messin' Studios, Australia
Mastered by Lachlan Carrick at Moose Mastering, Australia

Hetty Kate "Under Paris Skies"
Lisez l'Etiquette Records 2019

Photography - Woodrow Wilson
Location - Entrecôte, South Yarra, Victoria Australia
Artwork - Hetty Kate

Physical Distribution (AU/NZ) : MGM Australia
all rights reserved

Under Paris Skies

Get Out Of Town

2019 Album Release "Under Paris Skies" Available Now.

Recently relocating to Paris, Hetty is often credited with an ‘effortless’ vocal style. One of Australia’s busiest jazz vocalists, Hetty sings with her own bands as well as touring with Australian jazz legend James Morrison for over four years. 

In the last decade she has toured in Asia, Europe and North America and joined the Melbourne, Tasmanian, Hong Kong, Auckland, Christchurch and Sydney Symphony Orchestras for James Morrison’s popular show ‘The A to Z of Jazz’. Personal highlights include performing at the Sydney Opera House and joining the Amazing Keystone Big Band (FR) for their West Side Story concert, as Maria.

Equally at home delivering a poetic ballad as fronting a hot swing band, Hetty’s lyrical delivery, natural sound and impeccable timing truly set her apart from her contemporaries. 

“She’s truly one of the best swing-style vocalists (I’m talking 1940, Benny Goodman style 4/4 swing) on the current scene..” Will Friedwald’s Clip Joint USA 2015

“…Hetty Kate’s voice overflows with a natural musicality.” Richard Fields 3CR Radio Melb AU (www.3cr.org.au)

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