Jazz band for a corporate event
A jazz band for a corporate event, sized to the evening.
A corporate evening has a shape: doors, dinner, a program, and whatever happens after it. A jazz band is the act that fits all four, because it can play under a hundred conversations, stop on a cue, and open a floor an hour later with a horn out front. The sound is the same book of standards all night. What changes is how many musicians are playing it, and when they aren’t.
This is the jazz branch of our corporate work: receptions, client dinners, awards nights, holiday parties and member evenings, on one contract with sound and an announcement microphone included, a certificate of insurance and a W-9 with the quote, and one personal contact for the night.
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Hear it
Dinner volume, and the trio with the drums in.
Autumn Leaves on one guitar, which is a client dinner for twenty, and Sunny with brushes, which is dinner for two hundred.
The evening
Doors, dinner, the program, and after.
Each slot wants a different amount of music, and the one in the middle wants none. A jazz band is the act that can do all four without a handoff.
- As the doors open
- The duo, upright bass and guitar, playing the standards while guests find their names and their people. The music reads as live from across the venue and stays under the first hour of conversation, which is the hour that decides what kind of evening it’s going to be.
- Through dinner
- The trio, drums played with brushes, at 65 to 72 dBA at the nearest table, which is a level the whole table talks across. Sets run 45 to 60 minutes with music through every break, so the evening never goes silent by accident. Changes Jazz Trio plays this size under its own three names, with a modern edge on the book.
- The remarks and the awards
- Silence, on cue. The announcement microphone is live on its own channel from sound check, the band plays up to the moment and stops while your speaker is still steps from it, and a walk-up for each award is planned on the run of show. This is the slot most bands get wrong, and it’s the one the program depends on.
- After the program
- The quartet, the trio plus a horn or a singer out front, playing the swing and the soul end of the book for the hour the floor opens. When the night should run past that, the DJ or a covers band carries the late end through the same sound system, on the same contract. The after-party page covers that hour.
Occasions
The corporate nights that book a jazz band.
- Client dinners and member evenings
- The duo for the whole evening. Twenty at one table or eighty at ten, and the conversation is the event. The client dinners page is the volume argument in full.
- Galas and award nights
- The trio through dinner, silence for the program, the quartet after it. The galas page sets out the cues, and a gala is where the horn earns its place.
- Holiday parties
- The trio through drinks and dinner, then the quartet with a singer for the first hour of the floor, or a handoff to the DJ. In December a Christmas jazz trio plays the season’s book at the same volume.
- Retreat evenings in the mountains
- The duo at a lodge dinner, with the mountain going dark through the glass. The retreats page covers the resort towns and their logistics, altitude included.
What a jazz band costs across this market, size by size and sourced, is set out in what a jazz band costs in Denver. A corporate evening that wants to sound like this decade instead of the standards book books Last Consulate, one player on upright bass and electronics at the same volume.
Questions
Asked about jazz bands for corporate events.
- What does a jazz band do at a corporate event?
- It carries the parts of the evening where people are talking, and gets out of the way of the parts where one person is. A duo plays as the doors open and guests find each other, the trio plays dinner at a level the tables talk across, the music stops for the remarks and the awards, and the quartet plays the hour after the program when the floor opens. One band, sized to each slot.
- Which size of jazz band does a corporate event need?
- A reception or a dinner for up to eighty wants the duo or the trio. A ballroom of two hundred wants the trio through dinner and the quartet, with a horn or a singer out front, once the program ends. Tell us the headcount, the venue and whether the evening has a floor in it, and we'll recommend the size.
- Can a jazz band play around a program of speeches and awards?
- Yes, and that is most of the job at a corporate event. The band plays up to the moment, an announcement microphone is live on its own channel from sound check, and the music stops while your speaker is still steps from the stage. A walk-up for each award and a lift back into the set afterward are planned with you on the run of show.
- Does a jazz band work for a company holiday party?
- For the front half, yes. A jazz trio through drinks and dinner is the most common way a holiday party starts, and the question is what happens once the floor opens. A jazz quartet with a singer plays the swing and the soul end of the book for an hour, and the DJ or a covers band carries the late end through the same sound system on the same contract.
- How much does a jazz band cost for a corporate event?
- It depends on how many musicians play, for how long and on what date, and the market figures for a duo, a trio and a quartet are set out, sourced, in what a jazz band costs in Denver. We publish no prices of our own. Send the date and we'll come back with a recommendation and a price for that evening.
- What do you need from us to quote it?
- The date, the venue, the headcount and a rough shape of the evening: doors, dinner, a program, a floor or not. From that we recommend a size and send one figure with sound, load-in and strike, a certificate of insurance and a W-9 inside it, and the venue gets the footprint and power list to check line by line.
Send us the date, the venue and the shape of the evening, and we'll size the band to it.
Live music for your event, from a solo musician to a full band, with sound support that’s the right size for the venue and a personal contact for the night.
Send us the date and the venue, and we’ll come back with a recommendation and a price for your night. What live music costs in this market is on the pricing page.