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

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Carla Helmbrecht

Vocalist Carla Helmbrecht has been cultivating her craft since the age of 8 when she began taking piano lessons and singing...

Deuce

DEUCE is a 5-7 piece electric Soul-Jazz ensemble led by horn players Jean Fineberg and Ellen Seeling...

Laurent Fourgo Jazz Ensemble

Laurent Fourgo & His Ensemble is comprised of seasoned musicians with 15 to 30 years of experience: vocals, piano, upright bass, electric bass, drums, guitar, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone sax, clarinet, flute, trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, violin and accordion...

Le Jazz Hot

Le Jazz Hot is the new quartet of the Hot Club of San Francisco, still continuing our tradition of fine French Gypsy Swing played on Stringed Instruments...

Liberty Street Jazz Band

Born in England, Liberty Street Jazz Band leader Richard Hall is a graduate from the University of Nottingham where he subsidized his higher education grants with jazz dates at the local clubs such as the notorious Down's Brasserie...

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. Selecting music from a wide repertoire, we play the popular standards, Latin favorites, and hot jazz classics from the '20s, '30s, '40s and '50s...

Mike Slack's New Orleans Jazz

Fine Dixieland Jazz from the foot-stomping roaring twenties...

Octobop

Cool jazz. Images of the early days on the West Coast when new ideas, harmonies, ensemble playing and great improvisation were all happening...

Rob Hart Trio

The Rob Hart Trio is an exciting blend of organic traditional jazz, fusion, funk, latin and textural experimental music, along with high-powered, on-the-edge improvisations...

Royal Society Jazz Orchestra

The eleven-member RSJO present the colorful songs made famous by such greats as Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway, Ruth Etting, Eddie Cantor, Billie Holiday, Helen Ward, Dick Powell, Ethel Waters, Fred Astaire, Maurice Chevalier, the Boswell Sisters, Ella Fitzgerald and Al Jolson...