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

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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...