Vintage Live Music for Weddings: Retro, Glamorous Fun!

Live music, with a terrific band playing to an exuberant crowd of party and wedding guests; what fun!

What makes for a great plan utilizing live music at weddings and events?

To me, the repertoire's the thing.

There is nothing that’s as much fun at a wedding or party than the special INTERACTIVE relationship between brides and grooms, wedding and party guests and a live band — especially a live band with an enormous repertoire.

And how boring that music would be if it were all just swing, or a steady diet of big band dance music from the 1940's. The music of the 1950's 1960's and 1970's is SO HOT! Our eclectic jazz-pop-swing repertoire has become very contemporary in it's retro moderne vintageness. We know thousands of songs -- our enormous repertoire is actually legendary -- and not everything we play is an "obvious choice." It's this uniqueness that's part of the excitement of having live music at a wedding or an event.

Songs like Destination Moon, Song Of The Jet and Hotel California are fun, mood-provoking, sleek and cerebral, flirty and deep, light and elegant. We love the kind of live music that thrills and delights wedding and party...

Live Vintage Music “Makes” A Wedding. The Theme is YOU!

"You and your band absolutely made our wedding!"

This is music to our ears! We love hearing it from our brides and grooms and their families.

We also love it when your guests tell you: that was so you!

Because your wedding or event is not about...

Wedding Jazz Orchestra Diary: It’s Supposed To Swing!

Let's talk about the best wedding band in America.

Huh?

OK, let's talk about reality.

Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Dorothy Fields and Nelson Riddle would all be rolling over in their graves if they'd heard what I just heard....

Fields wrote some of the best live music for weddings,...

2010 Wedding Trends: What’s Hot & What’s Not

2010 Wedding Trends - What's Hot and What's Not....A Style List for Modern Brides

My friend Sheryle Ulyate, who is one of the most elegant women I know, suggested that we compile a list of what the editors of Modern Bride might well be touting as...

Gourmet, Modern Bride & Print Media

Gourmet and Modern Bride are gone. This is not good.

I was one of the first "content providers" trained by the Los Angeles Times to write for the internet.

Years ago, ok?

Keep it short and sweet, they told us. Nobody wants to wade through more than a...

Vintage Live Music: A Lifetime of Listening and Learning

We never play anything the same way once.

Most of my musical colleagues started making music professionally when they were about thirteen years old.

I was a "band singer" at that age. Stand up, sit down...

We're a little more creative these days.

It's Benny...

California Wedding Orchestra: A Palm Springs Jazz Wedding

The Event: A Sophisticated Old Hollywood Jazz Wedding

The Setting: A Gorgeous Mid-Century Moderne "Old Palm Springs" Hotel

The Theme: Beautifully Designed Poolside Wedding Reception Dinner

The Band: Judy Chamberlain Orchestras & Entertainment

The Vibe: Hip, Elegant Minimalism

First Dance: "Beyond The Sea"

What a wonderful wedding, and it certainly...

Diary of a Modern American Swing Band: Jazz Weddings, Events

Nothing makes a wedding or event more fun than live music -- especially when it's jazz wedding or event music.

Jazz, swing and big band, Rat Pack -- poolside in Palm Springs or in a ballroom in Pismo Beach -- the best wedding music is rooted...

A Live Soundtrack for Your Wedding or Event!

Music and the movies are a strong connection!

Forrest Gump...Sleepless In Seattle...Animal House...

What would they have been witout exactly the right music popping up at exactly the right time?

In EXACTLY in the right spot....

And all of a sudden it's 1967 and you are so there.

You...

Old Hollywood Weddings with Live Music

Old Hollywood weddings call for a repertoire that spans every decade of the movies, big band, swing and pop. We do literally thousands of songs that speak to your most glamourous, romantic, elegant and fun moods! The lyrics, the melodies and the arrangements are magical...