Jazz Bands

Melbourne · Jazz band

B Sharp is a seventeen piece Melbourne big band, and they play the charts at full size because that's how the arrangers wrote them. Founder and d...

Melbourne · Jazz band

Feed The Cats first formed in 1987, put together by Paul Dawber and Shane Ryall, and from 1987 to 1990 they were doing six gigs a week of jazz, s...

Melbourne · Jazz band

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...

Melbourne · Jazz band

After Hours are a boutique jazz combo, and every member is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts. They've played for the Queen at Gover...

Melbourne · Jazz band

Somewhere between the speeches and the dancing at a wedding, while guests are seated and listening, is where a wholly improvised act like Flash P...

Melbourne · Jazz band

Melbourne · Jazz band

Musical director, choir leader and singer, Mel Searle works across a wide spread of Melbourne rooms: jazz clubs, festivals, community events, cor...

Melbourne · Jazz band

Sarah Maclaine sings across a wide stretch of ground. Pop, jazz, blues, r&b, disco and Latin all sit comfortably in the same set, with a song lis...

Melbourne · Jazz band

Six pieces, hot solos, tight arrangements, and a repertoire drawn almost entirely from the 1920s and 30s. Shirazz play trad jazz and dixieland th...

Melbourne · Jazz band

Melbourne · Jazz band

Live jazz played to silent film. Five experienced Melbourne players make up The Sounds of Silent, and they accompany Charlie Chaplin and Buster K...

Melbourne · Jazz band

Twenty five years in, Tony Rebeiro still sounds like a rock singer who fell hard for swing. That's the appeal. Tony Rebeiro and The Bureau play t...

Melbourne · Jazz band

Bebop, bossa nova, and a fair bit either side of both. This Melbourne jazz band features vocalist David Ruiz and moves through blues, funk, soul...

Melbourne · Wedding band

As your wedding shifts from dinner into dancing, this is the kind of act that keeps the room moving without awkward gaps, because you can book Es...

Melbourne · Wedding band

A wedding can run through this act's whole day. Peter sings with acoustic guitar for the ceremony, then the full band takes over for dinner and d...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Horns hit, and dancing is the whole promise, every note of it played live. Everything is played live, no backing tracks, by professional musician...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Clarinet carrying the tune, with guitar, bass and a percussion set underneath it, moving between Turkish music and jazz. That pairing is the whol...

Melbourne · Wedding band

A live sax line over a small setup is the first thing your guests would notice here, and it's easy to picture during canapes or that stretch afte...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Let the room choose the size: the whole big band if you have space for it, otherwise an eleven, a seven, a five or a three. B# work out of Hawtho...

Mornington · Wedding singer

Classically schooled mezzo-soprano singing, crossing between classical repertoire, jazz and the musical stage, with guitar alongside. Bernadette...

Melbourne · Wedding band

Beth suits a wedding where you want one singer to cover a lot of ground without taking over the room. She sings and plays guitar, has an unusual...

Mornington · Wedding band

Brazilian rhythm and Latin leaning jazz land first here, with ballads, swing and newer songs all in the same set, so your guests would hear a ban...

Melbourne · Wedding singer

Dance tunes at one end and calmer power ballads at the other, sung solo. Brodie Wylde is a cover artist from Sunbury in Victoria, travelling up t...

Wangaratta · Wedding band

This suits a wedding where you'd rather set a distinctly French mood than fill the room with big volume, especially for a daytime celebration. Ce...