About Seattle Jazz Band 7

The pianist of this Seattle Jazz Band has been the 2005 Northwest Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year and the 2006 Northwest Acoustic Jazz Ensemble of the Year.

In addition to his lifelong career playing in jazz venues across the U.S. and around the world, this Jazz pianist has over 25 years of experience playing music for weddings, receptions, and other private events. Over all those years, he has had nothing but satisfied clients. If you’d like references, just let us know.

He and his Seattle Jazz Band will work with you to build an ensemble that fits the instrumentation and budget you have in mind, and he will always be sure you get Seattle’s finest jazz artists.

Seattle Jazz Band options

solo piano
duo (piano with bass, sax or vocals)
trio (piano with bass plus drums, vocals, guitar or sax), or
larger ensembles (piano, bass and drums plus additional musicians).

His Seattle Jazz Band will tailor their music to suit your occasion. Their repertoire includes hundreds of the best-known standards by the great songwriters: Gershwin, Porter, Kern, Rodgers/Hart, Arlen, and many more. If you’ve got a specific request, they will very happy to play it, from upbeat swing tunes to beautiful ballads.

For the more hard-core jazz listeners, he will also play tunes by the jazz greats, including Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck and Dizzy Gillespie. And if you prefer music still further off the beaten path, they can intersperse their own compositions, some of which have been featured on cable and television programs including The Wire and West Wing.

Seattle Jazz Band program

Wherever your jazz tastes lie, he and his Seattle Jazz Band will put together a program that gives you the style of music you want, whether it’s ambience-setting background music (as you might hear in an elegant restaurant), music for listening (e.g., the styles you might hear in a downtown jazz club) or music for dancing (swing, bossa nova, salsa or slow dancing).