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

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Le Hot Jazz

Le Hot Jazz is an exciting, virtuosic jazz quartet that plays special events throughout the Bay Area...

Liberty Street Jazz Band

With impeccable professionalism, punctuality and presentation, Richard Hall and Liberty Street Jazz Band are dedicated to surpassing his audiences' expectations, whether as a soloist or in ensemble...

Magnolia Jazz Band

The band knows how to be flexible -- often adding trumpet, saxophone, trombone, piano, drums, banjo, or tuba, to provide the right size combo for every occasion...

Mike Slack's New Orleans Jazz

The MSNOJ is a top drawer popular band, ideal for parties, small functions and fund raisers anywhwere in the Bay Area...

Octobop

Octobop is the personification of Cool Jazz. Let the 8 Boppers cool off your soiree with the sounds of West Coast smooth...

Anton Jazz

Anton Jazz is a powerfulk, high-end jazz solution for your special event...

Rob Hart Trio

Rob has also performed/recorded with renowned bassist Kai Eckhardt (John McLaughlin),The Isley Brothers, Antilles recording artist Dave Mann, CC Deville (Poison), and Stu Hamm (Joe Satriani/Steve Vai) among others, and has been featured as an opener for legendary jazz saxophonist Bennie Maupin and seminal jazz fusion pioneers Spyro Gyra...

Atmos Trio

The Atmos Trio will take you on a musical journey not soon forgotten...

Ben Marcato

The late, great leader of The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, hand-picked Ben Marcato and his Mondo Combo exclusively, to perform at his 1994 Valentine’s Day wedding reception at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon.

Royal Society Jazz Orchestra

The orchestra was voted #1 Favorite Big Band in the Jazzology Poll, and was voted most popular Big Band in the American Rag music poll. The RSJO's popularity and authenticity inspire many large-scale Art Deco-era-themed events in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond...