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

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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...

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...

Alejandro Jauregui

Alejandro Jauregui is wonderful solo pianist with a flair for the moment and an elegant repertoire of perfect mood music. Alejandro has been providing piano music at cocktail hours for many years in the Bay Area. He is also a wonderful bandleader and on-stage personality...

Angelica Hayden

Angelica Hayden is a professional pianist, singer/songwriter with a full band available. She performs solo piano, solo piano and vocals or with full band...

Anna Kristina

Anna moved to San Francisco to study voice. She had classical voice training in San Francisco under Edward Sayegh. Training combined with constant performing in San Francisco provided the ultimate learning environment...

Anna Marie Mendieta

In a career that has earned her prestigious awards and performances with top name recording artists, Ms. Mendieta has also been invited to perform for dignitaries and heads of state...