Best Jazz Bands & Musicians in Los Angeles

Rossi Music has had a reputation for over 12 years as the best place in Los Angeles to hire a Jazz Band. Jazz was the primary reason for our first website, to showcase all of our Jazz bands including solo jazz piano, Jazz guitar duos, Jazz piano trios, Jazz Bands with vocals, Rat Pack Bands, Smooth Jazz and Jazz Swing & Big Bands. We cover all the styles of jazz that you’re looking for with amazing singers of all styles or purely instrumental jazz for background music.

Rossi Music was awarded The 2012 Brides Choice Award^TM for BEST of BANDS AND DJ’s for outstanding excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding entertainment industry.

What makes us so special that we have celebrities hiring us for their parties??
We are the only music entertainment agency in Los Angeles that is headed by a Grammy-winning artist. Rick’s connection with award-winning jazz musicians and entertainers helps us to provide you with the very best live music in Los Angeles, which you can hire for your own event or party anywhere in Southern California.

What kinds of jazz do we provide? Let’s talk styles of jazz bands.
Jazz has grown to be a very loose description for a music genre created 100 years ago. The first thing we will do when you call us is ask questions about the specific kind of jazz that turns you on. The classic jazz quartet typically features Sax, piano, bass, and drums, performing jazz standards from the Great American Songbook.  This is one of the most popular reasons to hire jazz musicians; it’s the perfect music to entertain while guests are able to talk, socialize, and enjoy themselves and without being distracted by the music.  Corporate dinner parties, awards shows, wedding receptions and dinners, corporate events, cocktail parties and engagement parties are the usual events that hire Jazz musicians. For a less traditional approach, smooth jazz or R&B jazz bands (think George Benso…) often provide a more contemporary groove while still remaining background music.  Swing bands or “gypsy jazz” bands (think Django Reinhardt) can offer a retro 1920’s acoustic jazz feel that seems to be in vogue at the moment.  “French lounge” (thinkPink Martini) jazz bands with a vocalist singing in French are also very classy.  There is still the “big bands” in the style of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Glen Miller, which lends itself to nice dinner music and swing dancing.

What size Bands do we offer?
The size of a jazz band can be anything from a solo jazz piano, jazz guitar or jazz harp to a 17 piece Jazz Swing Big Band or even larger if you want a Society Orchestra with Strings etc. So once again, you may need some guidance on what is going to work best for your event and your entertainment budget. A Rat Pack Band (a fun band with a Sinatra, Dean Martin, or Sammy Davis-type sound) has been popular for many years and ranges from a quartet at its smallest to a 17-piece big band. Other popular sized jazz bands are a 10-piece with a male and female singer up front, 4 rhythm section players and 4 horns. That is a very versatile band that can cover anything from the 40’s Big Band Swing Era to Top 40 Dance Cover Band songs, including classic to current pop. That way, you can enjoy listening to them playing jazz at cocktails and dinner and then rev up the party for dancing for the last two hours with Top 40 cover band favorites for a dance party.

What are the most requested bands?
Our busiest bands are our jazz trios and jazz quartets. These bands are very popular for corporate event dinner parties where nice jazz background music is the preferred form of entertainment. Jazz trios and quartets are also frequently used for wedding ceremonies (these bands can play classical music for your ceremony and then switch to jazz for the cocktail and dinner hour). The rest of the wedding reception depends on whether you want dance or just nice background music. If you want a variety band the same jazz trio can then be expanded to a 7-10 big band (our most popular) for jazz swing dancing and top 40 dance band favorites. We also have wedding DJs that can kick the party into high gear and play all the top songs that you want to dance to. Check out our new DJ/Band hybrids; these have become our very favorite bands. Why? Because the sound of the DJ/band is like a 10 piece band but the cost of the band to you is only what you would pay for a 4 piece. Check out our new DJ/Band Hybrid Bands now.

Do you want to see our Jazz Song lists?
What style do you want? We have song lists for each of our various bands. We have a list of the various styles of jazz you can choose from on our jazz style questionnaire. This helps us choose the right band for your party or event. With our questionnaire you can pick from either the jazz artist name or the style of music. Both will help us get exactly what you have in mind for the type of jazz you want.

Do you want to just get to the videos of our jazz bands?
Click this link to go to the jazz video/audio samples page. Here’s a list of bands that you can click on to take you to hear specific videos that interest you.