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Essential Jazz
Jazz Band
Essential Jazz are an instrumental jazz band, who provide sophisticated and stylish background jazz music for wedding receptions, private parties and corporate events.
The London-based band is made up of graduates from the top UK music colleges and conservatoires, who can perform virtually any jazz standard. You can expect to hear songs from the likes of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and more.
The band’s music is designed to fit seamlessly into the background of your event, providing a splendid atmosphere whilst not getting in the way of networking and conversation.
Constantly in demand, Essential Jazz have performed at The London Jazz Festival, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, The Science Museum, The Eiffel Tower and for a huge array of corporate clients. The standard line-up of tenor saxophone and guitar can be expanded with additional musicians and vocalists.
After dinner, why not book the band’s larger brother, Swing and Soul; a sensational award-winning party band able to keep you dancing all night. You can get a great deal when booking both bands together!
ARTIST | TITLE |
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Antonio Carlos Jobim | Favela |
Benny Golson | Killer Joe |
Benny Goodman | Stompin At The Savoy |
Bill Evans | Peri’s Scope |
Billie Holiday | These Foolish Things |
Bobby Darrin | Beyond The Sea |
Chet Baker | But Not For Me |
Chet Baker | Have You Met Miss Jones |
Chet Baker | Like Someone In Love |
Chet Baker and Wolfgang Lackerschmid | Blue Bossa |
Clifford Brown | Sandu |
Cole Porter | Easy To Love |
Cole Porter | I’ve Got You Under My Skin |
Cole Porter | Night And Day |
Cole Porter | You Do Something To Me |
Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern | The Way You Look Tonight |
Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh | On The Sunny Side Of The Street |
Duke Ellington | Don’t Get Around Much Anymore |
Duke Ellington | In A Mellow Tone |
Duke Ellington | Just Squeeze Me |
Duke Ellington | Satin Doll |
Duke Ellington | Take The A Train |
Ella Fitzgerald | All Of Me |
Ella Fitzgerald | Cheek To Cheek |
Ella Fitzgerald | My Romance |
Erskine Hawkins | Tuxedo Junction |
Etta James | At Last |
Frank Sinatra | Come Fly With Me |
Frank Sinatra | Fly Me To The Moon |
Frank Sinatra | My Baby Just Cares For Me |
Frank Sinatra | Old Devil Moon |
Frank Sinatra | The Tender Trap |
George Gershwin | ‘S Wonderful |
George Gershwin | A Foggy Day |
George Gershwin | They Can’t Take That Away From Me |
George Shearing | Lullaby Of Birdland |
Harold Arlen | I’ve Got The World On A String |
Harold Arlen | Let’s Fall In Love |
Jerome Kern | All The Things You Are |
Jimmy Forrest | Night Train |
Jimmy McHugh | Exactly Like You |
Jimmy Van Heusen | I Thought About You |
John Klenner | Just Friends |
Johnny Green | Body And Soul |
Johnny Mercer | Skylark |
Miles Davis | Boplicity |
Miles Davis | Freddie The Freeloader |
Miles Davis | Four |
Miles Davis | If I Were A Bell |
Miles Davis | On Green Dolphin Street |
Morgan Lewis | How High The Moon |
Nat King Cole | Almost Like Being In Love |
Nat King Cole | Autumn Leaves |
Nat King Cole | When I Fall In Love |
Ray Heindorf | Kelly’s Blues |
Richard Rogers | I Could Write A Book |
Tony Bennett | The Lady Is A Tramp |
Victor Young | Stella By Starlight |