Unforgettable - Nat King Cole Tribute

*** SHOW IS CANCELLED ***

Dorian’s childhood hero was Nat King Cole. While other teens were buying Cold Chisel and ACDC records, Dorian was spending his pocket money on Nat Cole records and imitating Nat’s piano and vocal stylings (and has the playground bruises to prove it!). A natural entertainer, Dorian and his swinging trio will take you through Nat Cole’s rich life in story and song, with lots of laughs along the way. Playing Nat’s original trio arrangements, the show is highly entertaining.

Dorian Mode is both a multi-award winning musician and writer of laugh-out-loud books: A Cafe in Venice (Penguin) and Mozart Maulers (Penguin) have been bestsellers here and in Europe while Dorian’s last CD was awarded two ABC Music Awards. He has recorded with Bernie McGann, Mike Bukovsky and other luminaries for EMI and ABC Jazz. He has performed numerous concerts, jazz festivals and performed at the Sydney Opera House.

Here’s what the press have said about his music

Mode’s lyrics are pastel-hued and observations and gentle confessions. Swirling amid the sensitive playing are musically resourceful songs, overlaid with words containing poignant little stings, which suck you into Mode’s very personal and satisfying vision – (John Shand) SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Mode swings stylishly with songs that conjure up late night moods through their upbeat melancholy and seductive grooves - SUNDAY TIMES

Stephen Sondheim has observed that a well-crafted song is like a one-act-play, with a beginning, middle and end, and character development. It is an observation that applies beyond music theatre. Dorian Mode crafts songs to take the listener on a journey. They tell old stories of loves lost and hearts broken, but with individual quirks of perspective and imagery - (John Shand) SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

He shares a lot of characteristics with other jazz artist such as Vince Jones and Harry Connick Jnr; a sense of heritage and delivery that is somehow simultaneously warm yet cool, and the power to fill a room with a velvet ambience that enshrouds and engulfs - ON THE STREET

Cool album, big impact, from a great artist - SWING JOURNAL JAPAN

Cool voice, cool music, a cool jazz feeling that engulfs you - JAZZ LIFE JAPAN

His effortless synthesis of influences and passion for producing accessible contemporary jazz belie a great gift - the ability to extend tradition without trying to impress. He is simply a natural. - NEW WOMAN MAGAZINE

His music can be described in one word: stylish! - AD LIB JAPAN

Dorian Mode is unquestionably one of Australia’s great jazz artists; a reputation that is only enhanced by the release of his third album ‘Cafe of Broken Dreams’. Simply put, this is a brilliant effort and heartily welcome - SYDNEY NEWS CRITICS CHOICE

A quality singer who excels on the piano - THE BULLETIN

Dorian Mode was a pianist first till everyone began hounding him, saying, can you sing? And boy, can he do both! A great album - THE ADVOCATE

Dorian Mode is a wonderful artist as a vocalist and composer and arranger. His originals have a unique tone of hopeless longing. I could not help but be absorbed in listening - SWING JOURNAL JAPAN

I was impressed after listening to his latest album. The complicated harmony used to create a more sensual sound has made this album not only vocally but instrumentally appealing - AD LIB JAPAN