This band is so good, it’s ridiculous!

Dallas Jazz Singer Judy Chamberlain

Judy Chamberlain with
President Reagan

“Name a song, and she’ll sing it. A huge repertoire testifies to singer Judy Chamberlain’s first love: jazz.” The Dallas Morning News

Dallas jazz singer Judy Chamberlain has the storyteller’s gift of phrasing.

She also sings the best songs ever written, sets perfect dance tempos and has worked with brides, grooms and their families to create and deliver spectacular wedding music scenarios for more than thirty years.

Judy’s extensive repertoire is a beautifully curated, eclectic collection of Great Gatsby Prohibition Era jazz and swing, vintage pop and R&B, Dixieland, classic country, swinging Sinatra tunes and a century of music from Broadway and the movies. Beautifully staged and orchestrated music for weddings, from ceremony to reception and after-party are her specialty.

In Old Hollywood movies glamour, romance and elegance were set up by the perfect song, played at exactly the right time. Many of those wonderful movie musicals were even actually about a wedding!

Judy Chamberlain believes that every bride deserves to be the star of her own movie.

There’s an art to matching ceremony, first dance, family dances and reception music to the most important occasions of a lifetime – and to the people who will be part of those occasions.

Judy’s an ace at doing just that.

Tell her your dreams, and she’ll set them to music – beautiful, exciting and perfectly performed music, customized and personalized to help create a wedding nobody who is witness to it will ever forget.

Dear Judy,
Nathan and I knew we wanted you the moment we stumbled onto your website. You and your band are the epitome of class. I don’t remember my exact words when I contacted you, but I know I wanted Frank, Ella, the Golden Age of Broadway and all that jazz! You fit the bill. Thank you so much for giving us a reception fit for royalty! God bless you and all your future endeavors. We couldn’t be more pleased with our choice.
Megan and Nathan

Not your typical “wedding band!”

Judy’s bands and ensembles feature jazz, classical, pop and funk musicians who have performed and recorded with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Beck, Sir Paul McCartney, Aretha Franklin, Diana Krall, Natalie Cole, Ray Charles, Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Michael Buble, The Tonight Show Band, Harry Connick, Jr. and other legends. They are sensitive and responsive, well-dressed, polite and play a tremendous variety of music. They are also the finest musicians in the world.

“Jazz singer/bandleader Judy Chamberlain has mastered the art of mesmerizing both the audience and her own band.” All-Music Guide

“Jazz singer Judy Chamberlain solidly affirms the music’s far-reaching, continuing vitality.” Don Heckman, L.A. Times

Over the years, Judy has been honored to have performed for numerous entertainment and political figures, as well as for some of the iconic composers who actually wrote the songs she sings.

In 1999, Paul Anka presented her with her own lyrics to his Sinatra hit, My Way, calling it My Way, Her Way.

But Judy has been doing things her way since she was a teenager fronting a big band, already a seasoned veteran of nights at The Stork Club and being awed by Cole Porter dropping in to hear Mabel Mercer sing at Tony’s or the Byline Room.

She adores recreating and sharing that world with her audiences.

Kodak Theater Marquee
A Jazz Salute to Frank Sinatra

“I LOVE YOU JUDY CHAMBERLAIN!” Jonne-Marie Switzler, Manager/Playboy Jazz Festivals

“Judy Chamberlain is a walking encyclopedia of The Great American Songbook.” Chuck Niles, Pacific Public Radio, Los Angeles

Timeless classics written by the likes of George & Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington, Harry Warren, Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein – and anything Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra ever sang – are among Judy’s favorites when “orchestrating” music for special events.

She especially loves working with brides and their families, and has been known to draw musical inspiration for her clients’ weddings from Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies.

And then there’s pop, country and vintage rock ‘n roll. Song recorded by Elvis Presley, Bob Wills, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Ray Charles, Paul Anka, The Mamas and the Papas, The Doors, The Carpenters, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, Frankie Valli, Aretha Franklin, Gloria Gaynor, Simon and Garfunkel, Nina Simone, Bonnie Raitt, Carole King, Barbra Streisand, Roberta Flack, Billy Joel, Celine Dion and many more are in Judy’s legendary 4,000 song repertoire.

“You’re just like ‘the Old Man,’ cookie,” Al Viola, longtime guitarist for Frank Sinatra>

Chamberlain collaborated for a decade in Los Angeles with guitarist Al Viola, a longtime mainstay of Frank Sinatra’s band and recordings; that’s his mandolin work you hear while watching the Godfather movies.

Viola, who passed away in 2007, was fond of pointing out similarities between Chamberlain and Sinatra, whom he affectionately called “the old man.”

“Judy takes care of business 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 the song — no warning — and the band is instantly with her because she gives great signals. Like Sinatra, she’s always in the moment and never does anything the same way twice. Her timing and phrasing are impeccable. I love working with her, because I’m never bored.”

“Look at all these people, having the time of their lives,” Viola said to Judy one night from their perch on the bandstand.

“And you were here, cookie.”