Jazz Central
79 bookingsCocktail-hour jazz from the golden decades. Jazz Central play the favourites of the 1920s, 30s and 40s, along with pop songs rebuilt as swing. An...
Jazz bands for cocktail hour and dinner. Trios and quartets that sit under conversation, then lift the room when it is time to dance.
Cocktail-hour jazz from the golden decades. Jazz Central play the favourites of the 1920s, 30s and 40s, along with pop songs rebuilt as swing. An...
Soul Street are a Sydney duo with soulful vocals over guitar arrangements built to complement rather than compete. The repertoire is genuinely br...
Fourteen pieces. Four saxophones, three trumpets, two trombones, guitar, piano, double bass, drums and vocalist Libby Hammer out front. Hip Mo' T...
Lady Jazz play the classic end of the repertoire, and they play it for rooms where the music is meant to sit under the conversation rather than t...
Masina Miller sings cool cocktail jazz and laid back lounge, with the class of an earlier era in the phrasing. Her sets move between chill out ma...
Jazz Royale are four Sydney musicians: vocals and saxophone, piano and keys, double and electric bass, and drums with percussion. The set can sit...
Swingin Vegas run from a solo performer up to a trio, with an acoustic jazz duo and a party duo in between. The music sits in laid back lounge te...
Swing, rhythm and blues, and boogie woogie from the 40s and 50s. Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys work the Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson and Chuck Be...
Alli Rayel leads this Sydney jazz outfit, and the line up shifts to fit the room. Two pieces for a lounge or cocktail set. Ten pieces when the br...
Guitarist Gavin Libotte, of Latin jazz fusion band Urban Gypsies, and vocalist Niyati Libotte, whose singing was sharpened in the jazz rooms of F...
A brass band that walks. This Sydney group takes the New Orleans marching tradition and bends it, so trad jazz sits alongside pop, soul and funk...
Piano, bass and drums, with a wide net for influences. The Glyn MacDonald jazz trio pairs Glyn MacDonald on piano with Michael Perkins on drums a...
A Queensland based jazz singer and teacher whose CV runs a long way past this state. Ingrid James has sung on national television, and shared sta...
Jazz Foundry are a Sydney band who move through jazz, funk and pop depending on what the hour needs. Ambient during pre dinner drinks and through...
Formed in 2017, though every member had decades of professional work behind them before that. Nicole Parker Brown and The Jazz Kings released the...
Songs in Spanish, French and Russian sit alongside the usual covers, which is not something you get from most Brisbane function bands. Jazz n Jiv...
Blue Bone play the Las Vegas end of jazz, the late 50s and early 60s, when a suit was a cultural requirement. Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Samm...
Piano, jazz guitar, bass, trumpet and drums, mixed and matched depending on the size of the room. Cocktail Swing usually work as a duo, trio or q...
Brazilian repertoire runs deeper than most people expect, and Juliana Areias has over 500 songs to draw on, from silky bossas to sambas with a bi...
Brenda Lee sings jazz with a quiet kind of authority. Trained at both the Sydney and WA Conservatoriums of Music, she works with deep, sultry ton...
Ewan Mackenzie has been playing his own blend of jazz and blues for years, and he's got the records to show for it. Turquoise came out in 1995 an...
Jazz, swing and bebop, played by musicians who clearly love the era. Moonglow work without stage gimmicks, which is the point: the music does the...
Swing, played properly. Sunny V And All That Jazz is a three to five piece working the mainstream jazz and popular standards catalogue, drawing o...
Banjo, clarinet and sax, and a double bass. That's the whole Aardvark Jazz Band, and because none of it needs plugging in they can set up almost...
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Practical answers about pricing, timing and what to confirm before you book.
Trios for cocktail hour and dinner commonly sit between about $1,500 and $3,500; quartets and bands with vocals cost more, especially for a full evening.
Not necessarily. Many jazz bands shift into swing, soul and funk later in the night. Tell them what you want the last hour to feel like.
Canapés and dinner are the natural fit: music that sits under conversation. For the dance floor, ask whether the band plays a dance set or pair them with a DJ.
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