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Organic, spontaneous jazz and swing for
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Old Hollywood CA retro-glam! Los Angeles jazz bands, swing & big bands, wedding & corporate event entertainment for California & USA destination events. Vintage live music from the Great American Songbook.

Top jazz singer Judy Chamberlain’s unique live music boutique provides extraordinary jazz, swing and big bands, vintage live music and musical entertainment for Old Hollywood themed galas, fundraisers, concerts, weddings, private celebrations, hotel, country club and corporate events in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Southern California and beyond.

The musicians who perform in our Los Angeles jazz bands, swing, wedding and big bands bands, dance bands and jazz orchestra are articulate interpreters of the Roaring Twenties, Great Gatsby, the 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.

Known for spontaneity, warm audience interaction and an extensive repertoire that spans every decade and genre of Twentieth Century American music, former columnist Chamberlain sings the way she writes — right to your heart and soul.

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 for dancing, we really DO do it all — sometimes in the same set!

We’re team players who play the right music at the right time and are dedicated to helping your party, fundraiser, gala or concert series reflect your personal or corporate style whether you’re a large corporation, art museum, hotel, country club or music-loving party planner.

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

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

Our enormous repertoire includes the timeless 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!

We mix decades and genres in our big live vintage music cocktail shaker, adding fresh, updated modern arrangements to the lyrics and melodies 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.

We’re as comfortable in a concert setting as we are playing dance music. You can sit back, relax, mingle and listen to our music while enjoying the other elements of your event. You can also dance to everything we play. And we mean REALLY dance to it! We get lovely compliments on how authentic the dance music we play is to each vintage period it represents. That’s because 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 where these songs came from, who wrote them and why. This music is a deep part of who we are…and we play it very, very well.

Blending phrasing artistry with perfect dance tempos, 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.

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.

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

“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!

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

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 martini 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!

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.

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