Joel Nelson Productions: Bay Area Event Planning, DJs and Live Music

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Mike Slack's New Orleans Jazz

Fine Dixieland Jazz from the foot-stomping roaring twenties...

Octobop

Cool jazz. Images of the early days on the West Coast when new ideas, harmonies, ensemble playing and great improvisation were all happening...

Rob Hart Trio

The Rob Hart Trio is an exciting blend of organic traditional jazz, fusion, funk, latin and textural experimental music, along with high-powered, on-the-edge improvisations...

Royal Society Jazz Orchestra

The eleven-member RSJO present the colorful songs made famous by such greats as Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway, Ruth Etting, Eddie Cantor, Billie Holiday, Helen Ward, Dick Powell, Ethel Waters, Fred Astaire, Maurice Chevalier, the Boswell Sisters, Ella Fitzgerald and Al Jolson...

Spirit of '29

For nearly three decades the Spirit of '29 has been pleasing audiences with its hot brand of exhuberant Dixieland Jazz. Folks of all ages clap their hands, tap their feet and get up and dance...

String of Pearls

STRING OF PEARLS is a female vocal trio that performs modern vocal jazz and vintage girl group music with swing, style, and musical excellence...

Anton Jazz

Anton has won over listeners and critics at high-profile jazz venues across the country, including the Blue Note in New York, Washington D.C.'s Blues Alley and the Monterey Jazz Festival...

Atmos Trio

Having been hiring their services out to other musical projects in every conceivable musical styles for years, it wasn't until 2004 that the Trio decided to pursue their own muse...

Ben Marcato

Before relocating to the Bay Area in 1993 to embark on his recording and performing career, Ben earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz Guitar from The College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati...

Bruno Pelletier Bacquaert

I moved to San Francisco in 1987 where I now work as a free-lance guitarist, bandleader and educator-- with performances at the world-renowned Jazz club Yoshi's with my own Quartet, at the SF Museum of Modern Art, at local Jazz Festivals, and at the Mill Valley International Film Festival...