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

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Royal Society Jazz Orchestra

When the saxophones and brass sound their first rousing phrases, the audience will know they are in for a rare experience...

String of Pearls

String of Pearls performs a wide variety of original arrangements that draw on the traditions of bebop, Brazilian music, and American pop...

Magnolia Jazz Band

The Magnolia Jazz Band specializes in entertaining people. Because we help make each event successful, our clients keep calling us for more. Although most of our engagements are private parties, we regularly bring a swinging mood to public events throughout the San Francisco Bay Area...

Mike Slack's New Orleans Jazz

Mike Slack's New Orleans Jazz Band is an exciting smaller group spun off from the San Francisco Feetwarmers and featuring Bob Embry or Jim Rothermel on clarinet, Mike Slack on cornet, Bill DeKuiper on guitar, and Tom Clark on string bass...

Octobop

Performing and promoting the music that began with The Birth of the Cool -- and the innovations of Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Dave Pell, Jimmy Guiffre, and Howard Rumsey among others -- Octobop makes cool jazz hot again...

Rob Hart Trio

Established in the early 1990's the Trio has gone through a series of different incarnations of instrumentation and evolutions, taking the trio through pathways of musical adventures...

Atmos Trio

Combining singable melodies usually associated with pop music, unexpected harmonic and tonal shifts of moderns jazz and World textures, the Atmos Trio is busy carving a unique niche for themselves.

Ben Marcato

Describing himself as a natural singer, the self-taught vocalist draws inspiration from personal favorites like Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, James Brown as well as Sinatra and Chet Baker.

Bruno Pelletier Bacquaert

Bruno and his group are fantastic wedding players with an extensive repertoire, innate feel, and style to spare...

Carla Helmbrecht

Carla's early influences include traditional jazz greates such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Julie London, Count Basie, and Dave Brubeck. Later influences include Shirley Horn, Nancy Wilson, Cleo Lane, and Miles Davis...