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Organic, spontaneous jazz and swing for
sophisticated clients and their unique events....

Los Angeles jazz bands, swing, big bands & dance bands for private parties, concerts, grand openings, red carpet & corporate events in California and beyond.

Top jazz singer Judy Chamberlain’s unique vintage live music boutique provides extraordinary modern vintage jazz trios, swing and big bands, musicians and musical entertainment for Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Malibu, Hollywood, Burbank, Palos Verdes, Pasadena, San Marino, Altadena, Sierra Madre, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, Newport Beach, Corona del Mar, Newport Coast, Laguna Beach, Dana Point, Long Beach, Temecula, Woodland Hills, Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, Camarillo, Santa Barbara, Pismo Beach, Paso Robles, Santa Ynez, San Luis Obispo, Napa, Santa Cruz, Inland Empire, Southern California and California Central Coast hotels, country clubs, hospitality industry promotions, private celebrations and corporate events.

The musicians who perform in our Los Angeles jazz bands, swing bands and jazz orchestra are the finest virtuoso soloists and ensemble players in the world. You’ve been listening to them on your favorite albums for years.

Modern Vintage Live Music for WOW Factor Events!

We specialize in retro-modern 1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s and 1950’s Old Hollywood vintage live music!

Our Los Angeles jazz bands, swing bands and jazz orchestra are articulate interpreters of Roaring Twenties, Great Gatsby, Rat Pack and Old Hollywood themes, jazz, early swing and big band music, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Rogers & Hart, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer and the standards of the Great American Songbook. At once familiar, nostalgic, evocative and edgy, our enormous repertoire is an amazing trip through a century of music! We bring the 1920’s, 1930′s and 1940’s deco, swing and big band eras to life — along with 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s rock & roll, oldies, doo-wop, R&B, Motown, funk, soul, classic country, blues, ballroom and a hundred years of Broadway show tunes and movie classics, past and present.

Los Angeles…Beverly Hills…Malibu…Palm Springs…Santa Barbara: Destination Moon!

From classical, traditional and unusual chamber music to sleek modern vintage jazz, pop, ballroom and swing, Old Hollywood glamour, R&B, Latin, soul, funk and disco doe dancing, we really DO do it all — sometimes in the same set!

We do a lot more than just show up and play some music! Every detail of your event is taken into consideration as we work with you to identify exactly the right music that will become the entertaining live “soundtrack” for your memorable occasion.

And while all of the music we play is concert-quality and suitable for enjoyable listening, you can also dance to everything we play. And we mean REALLY dance to it! Time after time, we are told that the dance music we play is authentic to each vintage period it represents. Well, of course it is! We’ve made a lifelong study of musical eras and their individual “sounds.” There’s a reason we can take you back to 1917. Or 1947. We KNOW this music, and where it came from, who wrote it and why…and we play it very, very well.

We also know what to play when, and are experts at the pacing and flow of an event. We understand the hospitality and event industry and how food and wine — and food and wine service — relate to the successful staging of an event that involves live musical entertainment. As team players, we’re there to do our part — and then some — in helping your party pr promotion run smoothly and reflect your personal or corporate style whether you’re a large corporation, art museum, hotel, country club or music-loving party planner.

Like Ginger Rogers — who did everything backwards and in high heels — we manage to blend phrasing artistry with perfect dance tempos. And we’re not imitating anyone. We’re the real deal, a rarity these days. Entertaining and stylish, we’re like the bands you’ve seen in those wonderful old movies on TCM with everyone crowded around the bandstand calling out requests. Bands like ours don’t really exist anymore, except perhaps in the movies.

Everything we do is “bespoke,” customized to give you exactly what we know you want: the most exciting, meaningful and memorable event anyone you know has ever attended.

“Judy Chamberlain,” says author Scott Yanow, “has mastered the art of mesmerizing both the audience and her own band.”

Ella…Billie…Sinatra…Cole Porter…the Rat Pack…incomparable event entertainment!

We play the FABULOUS material popularized by artists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughn, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Nat King Cole, The Platters, Bobby Darin, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Paul Anka, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, The Doors, The Eagles, The Mamas and the Papas, The Beach Boys, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Nina Simone, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, Diana Krall, Michael Buble and many more.

If Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Rogers & Hart, Rogers & Hammerstein, George & Ira Gershwin, Harry Warren, Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, Harold Rome or Hoagy Carmichael wrote it, it’s in our repertoire. We also adore anything associated with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and cinema noir movies and play all of that music, too! ALL of it!

We mix styles, decades and genres in our big vintage jazz and swing cocktail shaker, adding fresh, updated modern arrangements to the lyrics and melodies that the composers wrote. Our Rat Pack spontaneity is part of the fun!

Expect the Unexpected!

When people are dancing, we play continuous dance music, segueing from one song to the next seamlessly without missing a beat or pausing to start another song. DJ’s think they invented that trick, and it’s something that not many bands can do. You can foxtrot, jitterbug, waltz, tango, rhumba, cha cha, mambo, charleston, polka, hora or just get down and boogie when we’re in the house.

Our musicians have toured and recorded with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughn, Little Anthony & The Imperials, The Temptations, The Commodores, The Supremes, The Platters, The Drifters, The Coasters, James Brown, Quincy Jones, Gladys Knight, Gloria Gaynor, Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer, Marvin Gaye, The Isley Brothers, Herbie Hancock, Paul McCartney, Barry Manilow, Natalie Cole, Better Midler, Barbra Streisand, Diana Krall, 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 ballroom, looked up at the stage and realized it was a live band.

“Judy Chamberlain is an incredible torch singer, and I say that as someone who hates jazz utterly and completely.” Rebecca Schoenkopf, OC Weekly

“You’re just like the ‘old man,’ cookie.” Al Viola

Kodak Theater Marquee A Jazz Salute to Frank Sinatra Photo by: Photography By Jane

Bandleader, music historian and jazz singer Judy Chamberlain is a fourth generation musical performer who is known for her spontaneity and extensive repertoire of Great American Songbook standards, mid-century moderne and vintage music from every decade and genre of the Twentieth Century. Recently named “one of the top jazz singers of all time,” she has appeared on E! Entertainment, The Style Network, ABC’s “The Bachelor” and in the Playboy Jazz Festival.

Longtime Frank Sinatra band guitarist Al Viola, who worked with Judy when the two co-led a jazz salute to Sinatra in Hollywood, noticed many similarities between the two singers.

“Judy entertains an audience and sings the hell out of a tune, the way Sinatra did,” said Viola. “She can come out of nowhere and take the pickup on a song and the band is instantly with her because she gives great signals. Musicians respect her; they trust her to make them sound their best. She has a tremendous repertoire, and she knows how to use it.”

“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 at her level. You have to know what you’re doing.”

“Jazz singer Judy Chamberlain,” says jazz critic Don Heckman, writing in the Los Angeles Times, “solidly affirms the music’s far-reaching, continuing vitality.”

Party Like It’s 1959!

Planning an Old Hollywood theme party, Roaring Twenties, Great Gatsby or other vintage-themed private or corporate event? A landmark birthday or anniversary celebration, 1950’s cocktail soiree, 1960’s tiki lounge pool party? An Audrey Hepburn movie theme…Grace Kelly…Palm Springs Weekend…or a ring-a-ding-ding Sinatra Rat Pack party? Casino Royale! My Fair Lady…Breakfast at Tiffany’s…Sabrina…Funny Face…The Bandwagon…Flying Down To Rio …in Swingtime. We have your music!

Bring us your dreams, and we’ll set them to music!

We are a full-service music and event production boutique specializing in vintage live music. Based in the Los Angeles area, we are available throughout California and speak “corporate” and “romance” equally fluently. It is an honor and privilege to be there for you as your dreams become reality.

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