Hire Orlando Jazz Band
Looking to hire an Orlando jazz band? Here are some helpful tips. There are many kinds of jazz bands that come in many sizes. Depending on the details for your event and the mood you would like to create, these descriptions and tips will help you hire the Orlando jazz band that will be the best choice for your event or wedding. Orlando’s Music Remembrance provides all of the jazz bands below and more.
Sizes and styles of Orlando Jazz Bands
Small Jazz Bands-Hire Orlando Jazz Band
A small band is usually from two to five musicians. A small jazz band is sometimes called a small jazz ensemble or a jazz combo. Different combos play different types of jazz or a mixture of styles.
Dixieland Jazz Band
This small jazz band is perfect for 1920’s, Great Gatsby, New Orleans and Casino themed events. It is also great for “wake up my business convention”, events wanting some fun energetic music, parades and New Orleans funerals.
Orlando Dixieland Bands performs 1920’s style jazz. They are often referred to by these names:
- New Orleans Jazz Band
- Traditional Jazz Band
- Great Gatsby Jazz Band or Great Gatsby Jazz Orchestra (when called this Great Gatsby costumes are normally worn)
- Brass Band
- New Orleans Brass Band
- Society Jazz Orchestra
When used for funerals the same bands are also referred to by these names:
- New Orleans Funeral Band
- New Orleans Funeral Processional Band
- Dixieland Parade Band
- Funeral Processional Band
- Dixieland Funeral Band
Dixieland Jazz Bands comes in different sizes. These are the most popular:
- Smallest: Trumpet, Tuba or Upright String Bass, Piano or Banjo
- Small: Trumpet, Tuba or Upright String Bass, Piano or Banjo, Trombone
- Medium: Trumpet, Tuba or Upright String Bass, Piano or Banjo, Trombone, Drums or Clarinet
- Full Tradition Band: Trumpet, Tuba or Upright String Bass, Piano or Banjo, Trombone, Drums and Clarinet
Note – For dixieland bands performing for a parade:
- Snare drum replaces piano, banjo or accordion
- Add a bass drum for a full parade band
- Tuba replaces upright string bass
Mardi Gras Band
This band is perfect for New Orleans, Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday themed events and parties
People call a Dixieland band used for mardi gras events a mardi gras band. Some mardi gras bands play Cajun influenced music or zydeco music in addition to or instead of dixieland jazz. Some mardi gras bands use accordion to give a New Orleans Cajun flair. Otherwise, the instrumentation is the same as dixieland bands. Mardi gras bands perform for Fat Tuesday parties and parades. In mardi gras bands performing for a parade, snare drum replaces piano, banjo or accordion and they usually add a bass drum. Different names for mardi gras bands:
- Mardi Gras Band
- Mardi gras parade band or second line band
- New Orleans parade band
- Zydeco band
- Cajun Jazz band
- Parade brass band
- Brass Band
- New Orleans parade band
Swing Band
Swing Bands are great for themed WWII era events, dancing and assisted living concerts.
These jazz bands come in small size and big band sizes. They play music from the swing era and retro-swing or jump swing music like Jump, Jive and Wail. A traditional instrumentation is singer, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, piano, upright string bass and drums.
Jazz Combo
Some small jazz bands play a variety of music or just one of the many jazz styles. These bands are great for wedding cocktail music, background music for dinner or events and assisted living concerts.
- Cool jazz – a mellow sounding jazz style
- Bebop jazz – a virtuosic jazz club or concert style jazz
- Jazz Fusion – a mix of rock styles and jazz. Some jazz fusion bands perform pop songs with jazz saxophone, trumpet and/or trombone
- Variety small jazz band plays a mix of all jazz styles including swing. They leave out bebop jazz unless the event is a concert.
People also refer to small jazz bands as:
- jazz combos
- small jazz group or small jazz band
- cocktail jazz group or cocktail jazz band
- jazz band
Big Bands – Hire Orlando Jazz Band
These bands are perfect for WWII era themed events and swing dancing. Because of the size the are best suited to medium to large spaces and larger budgets.
Big Bands are large jazz bands that play swing music. Most big bands perform swing music from the swing era/WWII era. Because of the number of musicians these are more expensive than small jazz bands.
The traditional instrumentation for big bands is 5 saxophones, 3 trombones, 4 trumpets and piano, bass, drums and vocalist. Smaller big bands between big band size and Swing Band Combo are available.
All these Orlando Jazz Bands and more are available at www.MusicRemembrance.com. To hire your own Orlando jazz band contact us.
Romantic Ideas: Create Romance With Singing Telegrams For Proposals & Gifts
Looking for romantic ideas for a romantic dinner, night out, proposal/engagement, to say “I love you” or “I miss you”? Romantic Singing telegrams are a memorable way to create romance. Below are some real life stories of romantic singing telegram Orlando’s Music Remembrance musicians and bands company has delivered.
Romantic Ideas for Romantic Birthday Gift
Wanting to do something memorable for her partner, Sara asked Music Remembrance to customize a romantic singing telegram. Receiving a romantic gift is more fun to receive when others can share is seeing how much your significant other loves you. This is why this Orlando Romantic singing telegram is delivered at work. The recipient is a pastry chef at her own restaurant. This singer and guitarist dressed in tuxedos enter the restaurant and walk up to the pastry counter where the birthday girl is working. They make an announcement and begin singing “Never Stop” by SafetySuit. Then they present her with a bouquet of flowers and read a note written by her significant other wishing her a happy birthday and telling her how truly loved she is. See the video.
Romantic Ideas For Anniversary
It’s Anniversary week and you haven’t thought of a gift yet. One of our clients found himself in this position. It was their first anniversary after having a baby and he had to be away on business. He surprised her with a singing telegram at her doorstep.
The singer rings the doorbell with flowers in hand. The husband who was on the phone with her says “answer the door, you have a delivery”. The vocalist hands her flowers and announces “your husband dedicates these special songs to you to remind you how much he loves you and always will” The singer, accompanied by a guitarist, sings John Michael Montgomery’s, “I Love the Way You Love Me”. The last verse is custom lyrics about their relationship and his love for her. The wife teared up through the whole thing and cried during the custom verses. What a sweet husband to do this for her.
Romantic Ideas for Proposal/Engagement
The boyfriend takes his girlfriend out to dinner. He says ” Lets take a stroll at the park across the street. What she doesn’t know is that he has made plans to propose there. Set up at the gazebo are flowers and candles. They come up to the gazebo and she is wondering if someone is having an event. He guides her to the gazebo and then as she turns around a singer starts to sing “Sing John Legend’s All of Me. Their song. They dance and then he gets down on one knee during the last bars on the song and then proposes.
If you are looking to do something romantic and memorable, a romantic music singing telegram customized for your special someone will always be remembered.
Contact Music Remembrance to customize your own romantic singing telegram in Orlando and Central Florida.
Singing Telegrams Ideas
Looking for singing telegram ideas? Trying to come up with a memorable gift? Music Remembrance has been performing singing telegrams with singers and musicians since 2001. These are some stories of our favorite and also our most popular singing telegrams. Some of these singing telegram ideas are funny, some sentimental or romantic. These singing telegrams are for a mix of birthday, children’s birthday, anniversary, I miss you, wedding proposal and joke gifts.
Children’s Birthday Princess Singing Telegram
Mothers, Fathers, Grandparents and relatives that can’t be there for landmark birthdays often send a special happy birthday singing telegram for the child and family in Orlando, Florida. The most popular is a singer dressed in a princess costume carrying gifts and balloons to sing for the child for a video that everyone will enjoy seeing. In addition, for children’s birthday parties, the singer stays and leads fun interactive songs with the kids like the “Hokey Pokey”.
Christmas
Send an Orlando Singing Telegram to tell someone special to you “Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays”. One of our most popular holiday Orlando singing telegrams is our Christmas Caroler Quartet in Dickens costumes. Brass Christmas Carolers performing Christmas carols and a solo singer singing “We Wish You A Merry Christmas”.
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Singing Telegram Ideas
Hire a singer to sing special mother’s or Father’s themed song for example, “Daddy’s Little Girl”. Have a verse of custom lyrics written about how special they are. In Orlando and Central Florida available in English, Italian and Spanish.
Graduation Singing Telegram ideas for the Graduate and Graduation Party
- Surprise singing telegram gift with a marching band performing a parade a celebratory music, for example “Celebration” by Kool and The Gang. Firstly, The band carries a banner that says “Congratulations!” with the graduate’s name while marching toward the graduate. Secondly, In the middle of the parade the band arrives at the graduate and pulls him up front to lead the parade with a director’s baton as they play a funky version of Pomp and Circumstance (the traditional graduation march music). lastly, The parade ends at his graduation party.
- Dixieland Jazz Band performs fun celebratory music at your graduation party to make the event a memorable occasion. This band is the perfect volume so everyone can easily converse while enjoying the festive feel. Livens up a party even more than any decor.
Send A Band Performing Their Favorite Music
For surprise parties at work, home or a venue a band is a popular choice that goes over big. Recently we send a dixieland trio for a man’s landmark surprise birthday gift. It is his favorite music and he came home to a small gathering friends and family, cake and his favorite music. The band performed a dixieland version of “Happy Birthday” with extra verses of custom lyrics filled with funny stories of his life that had everyone laughing. This was in addition to a full concert of his favorite songs.
Come back for more funny and heart warming stories: Engagement Rick, I miss you birthday at Disney springs, Bunny Gram: embarrass my brother, anniversary singing telegram, doo-wop birthday, favorite movie re-creations (Bette Midler in Beaches and Sing-a-long scene in My Best Friend’s Wedding.) and celebrity impersonations (Chubby Checker & Adele).
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Fun Ideas for your Ceremony Music
Orlando wedding ceremony music selected today by most brides and grooms is personal to them. Most brides and grooms used to select from the same few traditional selections, e.g. “Here Comes the Bride”. Now it has become more popular to personalize your Orlando wedding ceremony music. Brides and grooms often pick wedding songs, wedding music ensembles or musical styles that are personal to them. If having unique and personal wedding ceremony music is something that you are thinking about, here are some fun and unique ideas.
- Have a dixieland band parade your wedding guests from your traditional ceremony to the wedding reception or cocktail hour location. This is a fun way to transition from a quite and romantic ceremony to a celebratory and party mood.
- Have a dixieland band parade the bride and groom down the aisle for the recessional after the wedding ceremony. This can be done instead of the dixieland parade to the reception if the reception site is too far for your guests to walk. This can also be done in addition to the parade to the wedding reception or cocktail hour location.
- Use nontraditional music for your Orlando wedding ceremony music. Many Orlando wedding couples choose to use music that is special to them rather than the traditional classical music. Music Remembrance had one couple that choose to have alternative 1980’s rock music like songs of “the smashing pumpkins” performed at their Orlando wedding ceremony. In order to make it more serious feeling and enjoyable for older guests they had the music performed by a classical guitar and bass duo. This way that had music that was unique and personal to them that still fit the tone they wanted to set for their wedding ceremony and their guests. If you are a jazz fan, romantic jazz ballads always make a beautiful edition to wedding ceremony music. They can be performed by vocalists or by instruments such as the trumpet, trombone, saxophone accompanied on piano or guitar. You could also have jazz ballads performed on solo guitar or solo piano.
- Use traditional music on nontraditional instruments. If you are a fun couple that would like to do something unique you may elect to have traditional classical wedding music played on nontraditional instruments. Electric guitar or electric guitar duo, electric guitar and bass duo, small rock band, singer with electric guitar, traditional organ with an oboe, english horn, french horn or other nontraditional instrumental soloist, bagpipe ensemble, solo bagpipe (has a limited classical repertoire), accordion, blue grass band, banjo or steel guitar are just a few choices.
- Use instruments that are special to you. If you met your fiancé at a concert, if you met your fiancé in a school band or at a concert, or if one or both of you play instruments you might consider using those instruments. If you met at a John Mayer concert you could use a guitarist/singer that performs his music. If one of you played trombone and the other piano a trombone and piano duet might be a fun and unique choice that your guests will enjoy.
- Ethnic music is a great way to personalize your Orlando wedding ceremony music. If you have an ethnic background or would like to pay tribute to a grandparent or parent from another country, Ethnic music can be so personal and unique. You can choose from using the style of music, the authentic ethnic instruments or both. I have yet to see a German band at a wedding so you could be the first in Orlando.
Whether you choose traditional music or something unique and personal for you, your Orlando wedding music will help set the tone and make your ceremony a day to remember.
Author-Andrea Rowlison. Music Remembrance. For more event and wedding music tips please visit the Music Remembrance blog or Published Ezine Articles by Andrea Rowlison.
Father & Daughter Dance Songs for Wedding Reception Bands
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Having wedding reception bands perform just the right song for brides and their fathers for the father-daughter dance is the key to making this moment a highlight of the wedding reception. Picking a song that describes the father and daughter’s special relationship will deliver a moment that you and your guests will always remember. Below is a list of songs that wedding reception bands can perform that work wonderfully for the father-daughter dance. This list contains songs that wedding reception bands have used that are tried and true and some unexpected songs that fit the moment perfectly. For some of the songs it is obvious from the title why they are so perfect for the dance and others it is apparent when reading the lyrics. A good wedding reception band’s leader/consultant can ask you questions about your musical style preferences and what you would like to express about your relationship and guide you to just the right song. When shopping for wedding reception bands make sure they have knowledge about father-daughter songs as well as first dance songs and other songs for the events of the wedding reception.
Father and Daughter Dance Songs for Wedding Reception Bands
- Daddy’s Little Girl – Al Martino
- Butterfly Kisses – Bob Carlisle
- Unforgettable, best when done as a duet like Natalie Cole did with Nat King Cole
- Always Be Your Baby – Natalie Grant
- Lullaby (Goodnight my Angel) – Billy Joel
- A Wink and a Smile – Harry Connick, Jr.
- Father and Daughter – Paul Simon
- You Are The Sunshine Of My Life – Stevie Wonder
- Ready, Set, Don’t Go – Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus
- Wind Beneath my Wings – Bette Midler
- You Raise Me Up – Josh Groban
- You Light Up My Life – Leann Rimes
- Isn’t She Lovely – Stevie Wonder
- Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
- My Love Is – Holly Golightly
- Walk With You – Edwin Mccain
- My Father’s Eyes – Amy Grant’s
- Through the Years – Kenny Rogers
- I Loved Her First – Heartland
- Daddy – Beyonce
- It Won’t Be Like This For Long – Darius Rucker
- Kind and Generous – Natalie Merchant
- When the Stars Go Blue – Tim McGraw
- Dance With My Father – Luther Vandross
- When Angels Fly – Tony Ransom & The Heavenly Light Orchestra
- The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra (with the Count Basie orchestra)
- How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) – James Taylor
- What a Wonderful World – Lous Armstrong, Stevie Wonder, Israel “Iz” Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole
- Dance with my Father – Luther Vandross
- While You Were Sleeping – Elvis Perkins
- Daughter – Loudon Wainwright III
- My Wish – Rascal Flatts
- Because You Loved Me (Theme From Up Close And Personal) – Celine Dion
- Cinderella – Steven Curtis Chapman
- In My Life – Beatles
- Landslide – Fleetwood Mac
- God Only Knows – Beach Boys
- Those Sweet Words – Norah Jones
- Love – John Lennon
- Anything Anytime Anywhere – Jimmy Buffett
- That’s What Love is For – Amy Grant
- I Hope You Dance – Lee Ann Womack
- Through The Eyes Of My Father – Brianna Haynes
- I Will Be There – Phil Keaggy
- There You’ll Be – Faith Hill
- Have I Told You Lately – Rod Stewart
- I Hope You Dance – Lee Ann Womack
- Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
- My Little Girl – Tim Mcgraw
- My Girl – The Temptations
- Summertime – Ella Fitzgerald
- My Love Is – Holly Golightly
- Daughters – John Mayer
- Little Angel – Pat Ryan
- Daddy Dance With Me – Chris Keith
- Over the Rainbow – Judy Garland,Israel “Iz” Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole
- Stand By Me – Ben E. King
- He Didn’t Have To Be – Brad Paisley
- You Are So Beautiful – Joe Cocker
- Find Your Wings – Mark Harris
- Through The Years – Kenny Rogers
- In My Daughter’s Eyes – Martina Mcbride
- Daddy’s Hands – Holly Dunn
- Merchant – Natalie Kind & Generous
- Then They Do – Trace Adkins
- Hero – Mariah Carey
- Here Comes The Sun – Beatles
- Sunrise Sunset, Fiddler on the Roof Musical
To find out more about using wedding reception bands for Orlando, Tampa and Florida weddings, please visit the Music Remembrance web site or contact Music Remembrance.
