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“Organic, eclectic…spontaneous!
Jazz singer Judy Chamberlain solidly
affirms the music’s far-reaching,
continuing vitality.”
Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times
“Judy Chamberlain is a singer who’s
always a pleasure to hear. In part,
because her astonishing repertoire
makes every performance a
fascinating journey through a
century of song. But even more
so because she brings such care,
authenticity and musicality to
everything she touches.”
The International Review of Music
“Organic, eclectic…spontaneous! Jazz singer Judy Chamberlain solidly affirms the music’s far-reaching, continuing vitality.” Los Angeles Times
“Judy Chamberlain is a singer who’s always a pleasure to hear. In part, because her astonishing repertoire makes every performance a fascinating journey through a century of song. But even more so because she brings such care, authenticity and musicality to everything she touches.” The International Review of Music
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Organic, spontaneous jazz and swing for
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Old Hollywood CA vintage retro-glam! Top jazz singer Judy Chamberlain & her acclaimed jazz, swing, variety & wedding bands provide modern vintage live music for weddings & events. Unique high-end society & corporate event entertainment. California, Arizona, Texas, USA
Elvis, Sinatra…Basie…Peggy Lee…Dean Martin…The Rat Pack…Mid-Century Moderne “Mad Men” style…Bebop to The Beatles…jazz weddings…the cool tunes of the Twentieth Century
“Organic, eclectic…spontaneous!” Los Angeles Times
Haute California’s most sophisticated event entertainment resource, singer Judy Chamberlain’s unique live music boutique provides extraordinary bands and an entire swinging jazz orchestra for Beverly Hills, Malibu, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, Santa Barbara, Orange County, Newport Beach, Newport Coast, Laguna Beach, Dana Point, Sierra Madre, Altadena, Pasadena, San Marino, Palos Verdes, Long Beach, Del Mar, Carlsbad, La Jolla, San Diego, Temecula, Redlands, Claremont, Westlake Village, Camarillo, Ventura County, Montecito, Pismo Beach, Santa Ynez, Paso Robles, Napa, Ojai, Inland Empire, Southern California, California Central Coast, Phoenix, Dallas, USA and California destination weddings, parties, concerts, hospitality industry promotions and corporate events.
The musicians who perform in our Los Angeles wedding bands and swing-jazz-variety bands do not play in cover bands or agency bands with limited repertoires. They are literally the finest virtuoso soloists and ensemble players in the world. You’ve heard them on your favorite albums and movie soundtracks and have seen them on popular TV shows.
We are not for everyone!
What you get with us is a bonanza of musical knowledge and creativity, not just the same old songs you’ve heard a thousand times. It is our pleasure to pamper you, listen intently to your plans and ideas, offer support and guidance and help you have YOUR wedding or event, not a cookie-cutter template of someone else’s wedding or event.
Everything we do is “bespoke,” personalized and customized to give you the most meaningful, memorable celebration anyone you know has ever attended.
Bands like ours don’t really exist anymore, except perhaps in the movies.
“Jazz singer Judy Chamberlain,” says jazz critic Don Heckman, writing in the Los Angeles Times, “solidly affirms the music’s far-reaching, continuing vitality.”
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From classical and unusual chamber music to vintage, tradtional and contemporary jazz, pop, Old Hollywood, ballroom, deco, Rat Pack classics, standards, Motown, doo-wop, rockabilly, doo-wop and oldies rock & roll, R&B, classic rock, folk-rock, latin, soul, funk and disco we really DO do it all — sometimes in the same set!
We’re as comfortable putting on an impromptu concert as we are playing perfect tempos for dancers. Foxtrot, jitterbug, waltz, tango, meringue, rhumba, samba, salsa, polka, Charleston, hora or just get down and boogie when we’re in the house.
When people are dancing, we play continuous dance music. We’re small enough to fit in a phone booth, although we do prefer more space whenever possible. We’re a jazz, pop and rock & roll band…a funk and soul group…and a retro swing orchestra that can play the entire score of your favorite Broadway show. But we’re never any one of those things for the WHOLE NIGHT! That would be so b-o-r-i-n-g.
Santa Barbara, CA…Phoenix, AZ…Dallas, TX…New York, NY…Destination Moon!
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An A-List team player, we navigate venues (and parking lots and site logistics) expertly, respect the confidentiality of celebrity weddings and events and work smoothly with sound, lighting and stage crews, site managers, caterers, photographers, videographers and event planners — so much so that they hire us to perform at their own events. Long-distance planning is a specialty and we sometimes get the first call, before the date has been confirmed or the venue chosen.
We’ll guide you through song selection, instrumentation and segment configuration and work with you and/or your coordinator on lighting, staging, pacing and timeline details. One of the best compliments we get is that what some feel is the hardest part of planning an event — the music — becomes the easiest once we’ve been hired. Whether you’re an experienced party planner or a first-time host or hostess, we’re going to make you look like a star!
It’s no coincidence that many of our clients are entertainers themselves.
“I LOVE YOU JUDY CHAMBERLAIN!” Jonne-Marie Switzler, Manager, Playboy Jazz Festivals
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The modern vintage music we play is at once familiar and edgy, with our own updated arrangements of the material popularized by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Billie Holiday, Louis Prima, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Patti Page, Tony Bennett, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, The Platters, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Johnny Mathis, Paul Anka, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, The Commodores, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Carole King, James Taylor, Willie Nelson, Procol Harum, The Doors, The Eagles, The Byrds, The Mamas and the Papas, Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, k.d. lang, Barbra Streisand, Etta James, Michael Buble…and so many more. We call it “the good stuff.”
If Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rogers & Hart, Rogers & Hammerstein, George & Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer, Michel Legrand, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Anka, Jimmy Webb or Carole King wrote it, you can bet it’s in our outrageous repertoire.
We also adore anything associated with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly ultra-cool, James Bond, cinema noir and the Golden Age of Broadway and movie musicals and play all of that music, too! Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Jimmy Durante, The Ziegfeld Follies, South Pacific, Sleepless in Seattle…High Society…Cole Porter! Come on and Kiss Me, Kate!
We’re elegant, but not stuffy — and as likely to tun a hip hop song into a jazz wedding standard as we are to craft an improvisational rock & roll version of Pachelbel’s Canon In D. We hate the “sound” of musicians reading from a “book,” and we never play with pre-recorded “tracks.” We know thousands of songs, from many genres. If you can think of it, we can play it. And if you can’t think of it, we can!
“Bandleader and jazz singer Judy Chamberlain has mastered the art of mesmerizing both the audience and her own band.” Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
“You’re just like the ‘old man,’ cookie.” Al Viola
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Guitarist Al Viola, who collaborated with Judy when they co-led Pacific Public Radio’s Hollywood Jazz Salute to Frank Sinatra — and was at the heart of the “Sinatra sound” for more than twenty five years — was fond of pointing out similarities between the two singers.
“Judy sings the hell out of a tune the way Sinatra did,” said Viola. “She can come out of nowhere and take the pickup on the song — no warning — and the band is instantly with her because she gives great signals.”
“Her repertoire is enormous, and she’s full of surprises — which is fun for the band and fun for the audience. I love working with her, because I’m never bored. She hears every note, just like he did. You have to be the best in the business to work with her. You have to pay attention, and you really have to know what you’re doing. What Judy does goes straight to the heart and soul of her listener. It’s about entertaining people.”
Our VERY enteraining musicians have toured and recorded with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, The Temptations, The Commodores, James Brown, Aaron Neville, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Gloria Gaynor, Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer, Marvin Gaye, The Isley Brothers, Tito Puente, Luis Miguel, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Paul McCartney, Joe Cocker, Beck, Justin Timberlake, Brian Setzer, Natalie Cole, Barbra Streisand, Stevie Wonder, Lou Rawls, Norah Jones, Bette Midler, Diana Krall, Kermit the Frog, The Count Basie Orchestra, Michael Buble and The Tonight Show Band, to name just a few.
Guests at events often tell us they thought they were listening to a CD until they made their way through the room, looked up at the stage and realized it was a live band.
“Hi from Toronto…you were awesome in Palm Springs, one of the best in the biz!” Naz Melconian, Videographer
Judy Chamberlain sings ‘At Last’ better than Etta James.” Shari Lightstone, Phoenix, AZ
“She makes you laugh, cry and want to drink martinis and dance all night.” Ann Chatillon, Coast Magazine
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Planning an Old Hollywood red carpet grand opening or Roaring Twenties theme party? A California beach destination wedding… or a ring-a-ding-ding Rat Pack pool party at a mid-century hotel in Palm Springs? Are you Audrey Hepburn, dancing with your handsome leading man in the garden of a private estate in Pound Ridge, NY or Darien, CT… or celebrating a landmark birthday or anniversary at home in San Marino, Santa Barbara or Dallas, Texas? Having a traditional Asian wedding in Beverly Hills, Pasadena or Laguna Niguel… or an intimate gathering aboard a yacht off the coast of Newport Beach, CA…or Newport, RI? We have your music!
We encourage interactive communication and out-of-the-box thinking and are always delighted to discuss music and logistics with you.
When e-mailing us, please include your phone number and the best time to reach you.
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