Greg Poppleton

Greg Poppleton caught the jazz bug at age three seeing Louis Armstrong on TV. He's never had any interest in contemporary popular music and is totally uninfluenced by it.  

Greg’s passion is jazz and swing from the 1920s and 1930s. His vocal style comes from a lifetime of listening to jazz age and swing era singers from the US, Europe and Australia

Greg Poppleton caught the jazz bug at age three seeing Louis Armstrong on TV. He's never had any interest in contemporary popular music and is totally uninfluenced by it.  

Greg’s passion is jazz and swing from the 1920s and 1930s. His vocal style comes from a lifetime of listening to jazz age and swing era singers from the US, Europe and Australia.  

“So that’s the way I naturally sing,” says Greg.  

His band, Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters, have reached almost 900,000 total YouTube views for their interpretations of songs from the 1920s and 1930s.  

In the field of jazz, Greg is also a multi-award-winning broadcaster. His Phantom Dancer radio show, a two hour, non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-50s radio, is heard online and on 22 radio stations.  

Meanwhile, Poppleton's live shows in jazz festivals, clubs and cabarets are spontaneous, witty and lively...  

“Damn, I wish I had known you when we had a theatre. We would have called you over to perform with us in a minute! The thing that got both Lynn and me, besides your great voice was your ability to “sell a song” and your particular energy and pronunciation which came across as completely American! Not sure an Australian would see that as a compliment, but you were singing what amounts to virtual American “folk” music. And that trio, which I mentioned at the time, was an absolute knockout. “ 
Lance Belville, Writer / Theater Director, San Francisco  

‘They Didn’t Believe Me’ from the latest album ‘Back In Your Own Backyard’ has just been chosen for inclusion in the soundtrack of a new German-Israeli movie co- production, The Cake Maker.  

Greg Poppleton has released six albums of 1920s-30s jazz and swing:

2006 - The Phantom Dancer 
Album of the Week: Women's Vintage Radio (US)

2012 - Doin' The Charleston 
Album of the Week: 2CH Commercial Radio Sydney, ArtSoundFM Canberra, 5MBS Adelaide

2013 - Sweet Sue 
Album of the Week: 102.5FM Fine Music Sydney

2014 - 1920s-30s Background Chill Mix 1
(Songs from 3 albums) 780,000 YouTube views

2015 - 1920s-30s Background Chill Mix 2
(Songs from 3 albums)   50,000 YouTube views

2016 - Back In Your Own Backyard
Release date 31 October  

Festivals: World's first 2016 International Jazz Day Event, Sydney Festival, Waiheke International Jazz Festival NZ, Thredbo, Illawarra, Dubbo, Merimbula and Glen Street Theatre Jazz Festivals, Blue Mountains 1920s Festival and many historical events.  

In his spare time, Greg Poppleton is a feature film, TV, stage actor and voiceover. He has worked with Nicole Kidman, John Goodman and Adrien Brody.

Awards

2014 Finalist jazz/classical category MusicOz
2016 Finalist jazz/classical category Australian Independent Music Awards
+ 6 jazz radio broadcaster awards