Jazz Band Central is the place to book great jazz bands or swing bands in Edinburgh, Scotland. Choose the style of jazz band or swing band you like from the jazz tracks on the music page to make your party, function or wedding a success. Hire a Jazz Band Central jazz or swing band for Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Perth, Dunfermline, Inverness, Dundee and Aberdeen events, with experienced and talented jazz musicians and jazz singers. Book a jazz band direct from the musicians working here in Scotland who love to play the music.

Jazz Band Central musicians have done it all ... jazz festivals, jazz and swing house parties, jazz clubs, jazz garden parties, jazz and swing in hotel lounges, jazz and swing for restaurants, jazz for weddings, jazz at tea dances, jazz band balls, jazz galas, PR receptions with background jazz, jazz street parades ... In Scotland, England and further afield.
Jazz Band Central news: What's been happening lately? ...Wedding bliss and New Year revels.

Our popular singer-led jazz and swing band (Swing Supreme) played a great wedding gig at Melville Castle, near Dalkeith. The bride and groom and nearly all the guests were from North Carolina, and they were up for having a good time. Before long everyone was dancing and the bride was scat singing with the band ...and everyone went wild. This band pleases everyone. Its repertoire includes material from Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Fats Domino etc., as well as the more popular jazz and swing standards. These songs also went down well at the prestigeous Edinburgh Balmoral Hotel Bar Hogmanay Party and everyone was up dancing and seeing 2009 in ...in great style. And we did it again, seeing in 2010!

From a Lounge Bar Jazz Duo or Jazz Trio to a swinging Jazz Quartet, Jazz Quintet or Jazz Sextet to a red hot Seven Piece Jazz Band. From casual dress to posh tuxedos. From a concert hall show to a lively birthday party to quiet background music in a restaurant to dancing the night away in swing jazz style at your wedding reception, choose Jazz Band Central.

Jazz Band Central specialises in bands that swing, playing the kind of hot and sweet jazz music that Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday would recognise and love. Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, George Lewis, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, George Greshwin, Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Sinatra, Lester Young, Ben Webster etc, etc. See our tune list on the Contact Page.

Jazz Band Central news: What's been happening? ...Jazz and swing in Kalkan.

The photo above could be a scene from New Orleans, some very relaxed music from a jazz and swing band playing in an open air restaurant in the evening. Everybody's happy. But it's not the Big Easy, it's Kalkan in Turkey. This year the band was Swing Supreme, led by Peter, a fine jazz singer. They played jazz and swing for a week in a variety of great venues, from an open-air restaurant overlooking the harbour to entertaining holidaymakers and Turkish people at an open air concert near the beach, hosted by the town council. We are looking forward to returning in September 2010.

The band welcomes enquiries from other smart and exotic holiday resorts in the sun!
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