Michael Munro

Michael Munro
Michael Munro has been a London based pianist and jazz singer since 2003. Prior to that he was based as a musician in New Zealand. He has written and produced two jazz programs for New Zealand's 'National Radio', where he has original music currently on air. Michael has also written and produced over 100 television and radio soundtracks from 1988 to 1996. At this time he also produced and directed a number of television commercials.

In 2002, Michael was contracted at the Tahiti Inter-Continental Beachcomber Resort with his own band of French musicians. The band, 'Le Coco Club', is a jazz combo of piano, double bass, drums and saxophone performing mainstream and Latin jazz.
From 2003 Michael was based in London performing at venues including; Rubens at the Palace, The Mayfair Millennium, The Milestone, The Oyster Bar in Sloane Street, Le Quecumbar, The Melia Whitehouse and Smollensky's On The Strand.
As a jazz pianist and vocalist, Michael has performed worldwide with French, British, American, South African and Chinese musicians. Michael has performed at The New Orleans Mardi Gras in the United States, The Green Dolphin Jazz Venue in Cape Town, The Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore, Le Manderin in Tahiti as well as his regular London venues.

Michael’s piano style has a strong swing-jazz feel. Having spent time in Cuba and Brazil, he also has a flair for Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban music. He has been influenced by pianists such as Keith Jarrett, Dave Gruisin and Ruben Gonzales. Michael’s bluesy vocals have been influenced by artists such as Donny Hathaway, Billy Withers and Al Jarreau.

Ideal For: background music for wedding reception, club or restaurant, or background for corporate function or private party

A Man and a Woman
A Foggy Day (Gershwin)
A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square
Accentuate the Positive
After You’ve Gone
Agua De Beber (Latin)
Aint Misbehavin' (Fats Waller)
Aint No Sunshine (Billy Withers)
Aint That a Kick in the Head (Dean Martin)
Alfie (Bacarach)
Always
Always On My Mind (Elvis)
All My Loving (Beatles)
All Of Me
All The Things You Are (Jerome Kerne)
Ally Cat
Almost Like Being In Love (Nat King Cole)
As Time Goes By
Autumn Leaves
Basin Street Blues (Louise Armstrong)
Beautiful Love
Begin the Beguine (Latin)
Besamo Mucho (Latin)
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Sinatra)
Beyond the Sea (Bobby Darin)
Black Coffee
Black Magic Woman (Santana)
Black Orpheus (Latin)
Blue Bossa (Latin)
Blue Skies (Irving Berlin)
Body and Soul
Border Song (Elton John)
Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Brazil (Latin)
Brown Eyed Girl
But Not For Me (Gershwin)
Bye Bye Blackbird
Cabaret
Can You Feel the Love Tonight (Elton John)
Candle in the Wind (Elton John)
Cant Take My Eyes Off You
Caravan
Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin)
Chega De Saudade (Latin)
Close to you (The Carpenters)
Cocaine (Clapton)
Come Fly with Me (Sinatra)
Consider Yourself (Oliver)
Corcovado (Latin)
Country Road
Crazy
Cry Me a River
Daniel (Elton John)
Dannyboy
Dark-Town-Strutters Ball
Day-dream Believer
Deep Purple
Desafinado (Latin)
Desperado (Eagles)
Detour Ahead
Do you Know What It Means (Louis Armstrong)
Dock of the Bay
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
Don't You worry 'bout a Thing (Stevie Wonder)
Dream a little Dream (Louis Armstrong)
Easy (Lionel Ritchie)
Endless Love (Lionel Ritchie)
Englishman In New York (Sting)
Evergreen
Every Breath You Take (Sting)
Everybody Loves Somebody (Dean Martin)
Every Time We Say Goodbye (Cole Porter)
Feel Like Makin' Love
Fever
Fields of Barley (Sting)
Fire and Rain
Fly Me to the Moon (Sinatra)
For Once in my Life (Stevie Wonder)
Fragile (Sting)
Gee Baby (Nat King Cole)
Georgia on My Mind (Ray Charles)
Girl from Ipanema (Latin)
Girl talk
God Bless the Child
Godfather Theme
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
Goody Goody (Sinatra)
Gravy Waltz
Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd)
Green Green Grass of Home
Guantanmera (Latin)
Have I Told You Lately
Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis)
Hello (Lionel Ritchie)
Hello Dolly (Lous Armstrong)
Here Comes the Sun (Beatles)
Here’s That Rainy Day
Hey Jude (Beatles)
Honesty (Billy Joel)
Honey Suckle Rose
Hopelessly Devoted to You (Grease)
Hotel California (Eagles)
How Deep is your Love
How High the Moon
How Insensitive (Latin)
How Long Has This Been Going On? (Gershwin)
I Believe I Can Fly
I Can See Clearly Now
I Cant Get Started
I Cant Give You Anything But Love
I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You (Elvis)
I Dreamed a Dream (Les Miserables)
I Don’t Wanna Talk About It (Rod Stewart)
I Get a Kick Out of You (Cole Porter))
I Get Along Without You Very Well
I Got Rhythm (Gershwin)
I Got the World on a String (Tony Bennett)
I Got You Under My Skin (Cole Porter)
I Just Called (Stevie Wonder)
I Say a Little Prayer (Bacarach)
I Shot the Sheriff (Clapton)
I Only Have Eyes For You
I Only Wanna Be With You
I Wanna Be Around (Tony Bennett)
I Wanna Be Like You
I Will Wait For You
I Write the Songs
I'll Be Seeing You
I’ll Have To Say I Love You in a Song
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (Tommy Dorsey)
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down (Fats Waller)
I’m Just a Gigolo (Bobby Darin)
I’ve Got the World on a String (Tony Bennett)
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Sinatra)
If it’s Magic (Stevie Wonder)
If You Don’t Know Me By Now
Imagine
In a Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington)
In the Mood (Glenn Miller)
Isn't She Lovely (Stevie Wonder)
It Ain’t Necessarily So (Gershwin)
It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Aint got that Swing
It Had to be You (Harry Connick)
It’s Alright With Me
It’s Too Darn Hot
Just Squeeze Me (Duke Ellington)
Just the Two of Us
Just the Yay You Are (Billy Joel)
Killing Me Softly
Knockin' On Heavens Door (Bob Dylan)
La Bamba (Latin)
La Vie En Rose
Lady in Red
Lady is a Tramp (Sinatra)
Lady Wants to Know (Michael Franks)
Layla (Clapton)
Lean on Me (Billy Withers)
Leaving on a Jetplane
Let it Be (Beatles)
Lets Stay Together (Al Green)
Libertango (Latin)
Little Wing (Jimmi Hendrix)
Long and Winding Road (Beatles)
Look of Love (Bacarach)
L.O.V.E. (Nat King Cole)
Love and Marriage (Sinatra)
Love for Sale
Love Letters
Love me Tender (Elvis)
Lullabye of Birdland
Mack the Knife (Louis Armstrong)
Mahogany
Makin Whoopie (Ray Charles)
Manhatten (Rodgers and Hart)
Masquerade
Meditation (Latin)
Memory (Cats)
Misty
Midnight in Moscow
Mister Bojangles
Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole)
Mood Indigo (Duke Ellington)
Moonglow
Moon River
Moondance
Moonlight in Vermont
More
More Than You Know
Music of the Night (Phantom of the Opera)
Music to Watch Girls By
My Cherie Amour (Stevie Wonder)
My Favourite Things (The Sound of Music)
My Funny Valentine (Rodgers and Hart)
My Love (Paul McCartney)
My Romance (Rodgers and Hart)
My Way (Sinatra)
Nature Boy (Nat King Cole)
Nearness of You (The)
New York New York (Sinatra)
New York State of Mind (Billy Joel)
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Gershwin)
Night and day (Cole Porter)
Nobody Does it Better
Nobody Knows You When You're Down ..
Now is the Hour (Maori farewell)
Ol’ Man River
On a Clear Day
On Broadway (George Benson)
On the Street Where You Live (My fair lady)
One for my Baby (Sinatra)
One Note Samba (Latin)
Only you
Orange Coloured Sky (Nat King Cole)
Our Day Will Come
Our Love is Here to Stay (Gershwin)
Paper Moon (Nat King Cole)
Peaceful water (Gladys Knight)
Pennies from Heaven (Louis Armstrong)
Penny lane (Beatles)
People Get Ready
Phantom of the Opera
Phoenix
Piano Man (Billy Joel)
Please Release Me
Proud Mary
Putting on the Ritz (Irving Berlin)
Quando Quando Quando
Quizas Quizas Quizas
Raindrops (Bacarach)
Red Red Wine
Rio de Janeiro Blues (Randy Crawford)
Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk)
Route 66 (Nat King Cole)
San Jose (Bacarach)
San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
Satin Doll
Send in the Clowns
Serenade in Blue (Glenn Miller)
Shadow of your Smile
She (Charles Aznavour)
She Believes in Me (Kenny Rogers)
She’s Always a Woman (Billy Joel)
She's not There (Santana)
September in the Rain
September Song (Kurt Weill)
Since I Fell for You (Al Jarreau)
Sixteen Tons
Skylark
Slow Boat to China
Smile (Nat King Cole)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Jerome Kerne)
Some Enchanted Evening
Somebody Loves Me (Gershwin)
Someone to Watch Over Me (Gershwin)
Something (Beatles)
Something Stupid (Sinatra)
Sophisticated Lady (Duke Ellington)
Sorry Seems to Be... (Elton John)
Stardust (Harry Connick)
Stomping at the Savoy (Benny Goodman)
Stormy (Santana)
Straighten Up and Fly Right (Nat King Cole)
Strangers in the Night (Sinatra)
Summer Samba (Latin)
Summertime
Sunny
Sunny Side of the Street
Sunshine of my Life (Stevie Wonder)
Sway (Latin)
Sweet Georgia Brown
Sweet Lorraine (Nat King Cole)
Take Five (Dave Brubeck)
Take me to the River
Take These Chains (Ray Charles)
Taking a Chance on Love
Teach me Tonight
Tears in Heaven (Clapton)
Tender Trap (Sinatra)
Tenderly
Tennessee Waltz
That’s All (Matt Monroe)
That’s Life
That’s What Friends are For
The Entertainer
The Great Pretender
The Greatest Love of All
The Last Time I saw Paris (Dean Martin)
The Last Waltz
The Look of Love (Bacarach)
The Nearness of You
The Very Thought of You (Tony Bennett)
The Way We Were
The Way You Look Tonight (Jerome Kerne)
These Foolish Things
They Cant Take That Away (Gershwin)
Things Aint What They Used to Be (Duke Ellington)
This Cant be Love
This Guys in Love (Bacarach)
Three Times a Lady (Lionel Ritchie)
Til There Was You
Time after Time
True Love (Cole Porter)
Try a Little Tenderness (Al Jarreau)
Tuxedo Junction (Glenn Miller)
Unchained Melody
Under the Boardwalk
Unforgettable (Nat King Cole)
Vincent
Volare (Dean Martin)
Walk right in (Dr Hook)
Wave (Latin)
We are Sailing
We'll Meet Again
We've Only Just Begun (The Carpenters)
What a Wonderful World (Lous Armstrong)
What a Difference a Day Made
What Are You Doing for the Rest of your Life?
What Kind of Fool am I (Sammy Davis Jnr.)
What Now my Love? (Sinatra)
What the World Needs Now (Bacarach)
What You Would Not Do
When a Man Loves a Woman
When I Fall in Love (Nat King Cole)
When I'm 64 (Beatles)
When Sunny Gets Blue (Matt Monroe)
Where is Love (Oliver)
Whispering Grass
Wind beneath my Wings
Witchcraft (Sinatra)
With a Little Help from my Friends (Beatles)
Yesterday (Beatles)
You Belong to Me
You Bring the Sun Out
You Don’t Know Me (Ray Charles)
You Go to my Head (Sinatra)
You Gotta Serve Somebody (Dylan)
You Look Wonderful Tonight (Clapton)
You Made me Love You
You Make Me Feel Brand New (Stylistics)
You Make Me Feel So Young (Sinatra)
You’ll Never Walk Alone
You’ve Got a Friend
Your Song (Elton John)