Jazz Bands

Victoria Valley · Acoustic duo

Two guitarists from two different traditions, and the contrast is the whole point: Brandon plays with a plectrum, Alejandro fingerpicks, and what...

Wangaratta · Wedding band

There are two sizes here, and the difference is real: five musicians with a woman out front on lead vocals, a pair of guitars, drums, and bass do...

Melbourne · Acoustic duo

Guests arriving, drinks in hand, nobody quite seated: that's where Paul starts, quiet and ambient, and it's the part of the day he shapes his set...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Scale is the first decision, from one performer over backing tracks at the small end up to the whole band. Victoria's own advice is voice and pia...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Sit down entertainment after the meal, when the room is happy to stop and watch something, is where this belongs on a wedding day. Christine Mane...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Size is the thing you decide here, and this Melbourne outfit goes from an acoustic duo up to a full seven piece. In between sit a trio and a pian...

Geelong · Wedding singer

There's a lull once plates are cleared, and a room will sit still and listen then if you give it a reason to. Marcia Howard fills that slot, sing...

Melbourne · Acoustic duo

Twentieth century songwriting fills the room first, drawing on Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin, with a Cole Porter programme taki...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Settle on a theme for your evening and this band becomes a much stronger booking than it looks on paper, because themed events are the work they...

Mount Martha · Wedding band

Traditional, dixieland and New Orleans jazz, played by a band that would rather engage with a room than perform at it. Mrs Sippy Jazz Band works...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Burlesque and cabaret sit alongside jazz singing here, and the costume changes that come with the first are the reason she needs a private room t...

Melbourne · Acoustic duo

Bookings come as a solo voice or with her guitarist alongside, and the gear is included in the price rather than added as a separate line. The so...

Beechworth · Wedding band

Drinks and dinner are the natural home for instrumental guitar, and here it is the arrangements that lift it above wallpaper. Jazz sits at the ce...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Horns and drums rather than guitars, which gives the covers a sharper edge than a four piece rock band tends to manage. Current material fills th...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Canapes and the slower half of a wedding dinner are where a Brazilian-leaning duo does its clearest work, warm and unhurried. Romance, a bit of m...

Melbourne · Acoustic duo

The high notes land first, then you notice the guitar underneath is being stacked in real time on a looper rather than played over a recording. S...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Couples who want jazz that is genuinely played rather than approximated will find the line-up decision does most of the work here. The compact ac...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Couples after one instrument holding the whole day together, without volume, should stop here. It's violin over backing, and the backing is negot...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Couples planning a long lunch or a garden ceremony where guests still want to hear each other talk should look at this one. Peppercorn Jazz Band...

Melbourne · Acoustic duo

Slow songs first, most likely. Marry You, All Of Me, Hallelujah, Thinking Out Loud and My Girl all sit in the wedding half of the book. Further d...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Think about the hour after the plates are cleared, when a wedding either turns into a party or quietly winds down. That is the stretch a funk and...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Four players, all of them singing, working out of Melbourne and willing to travel anywhere in the country. The material wanders across jazz, vint...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Dinner is where this one earns its keep, when guests are seated and talking and you want jazz and swing holding the room together. Rick Correnza...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Piano and voice together, from one person, on jazz standards. Sharon Davis pitches it to sit underneath a room rather than run it, which is exact...