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Favela Jazz and Soul Band
A young, versatile swing band performing a wide range of jazz, Ratpack swing and soul classics to suit any occasion. Available now for your wedding reception (full band is 9 piece or 6 piece for just jazz sets)
The Favela Jazz and Soul Band is a young, versatile ensemble, available to hire for all public and private events. Whether you’re looking for quiet instrumental background music to wine and dine to, or live vocal-led music guaranteed to keep you on the dance floor, we will do our best to accommodate your needs.
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Imagination Gallery London The Favela Jazz & Soul Band
The Favela Jazz & Soul Band is an exciting, dynamic and versatile function band performing a huge range of hits from the Jazz, Rat Pack, Soul and Motown eras. They are all you’ll need to make your wedding or corporate event go with a swing – available in different line-ups from small jazz bands to a 6- or 9-piece function band guaranteed to keep you on the dancefloor!
Every performance is planned individually to make sure the band meet your event requirements. From choosing the perfect line-up to suit your event to smaller details such as the dress code, special requests and performance times, The Favela Jazz & Soul Band aim to be completely flexible to ensure you get the perfect entertainment for your event.
Members have performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival on BBC television and are regularly employed for session work throughout the UK. The band regularly performs at corporate events and private functions all over the country including prestigious venues in London such as The Berkeley Hotel, The Imagination Gallery and Inns of Court, and at other venues throughout the UK including Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons, and Magdalen College Oxford. Previous clients include E-ON UK, Mellon Ltd, Goldcrest Land and The Royal Air Force.
Line-up
9-piece band (standard): Female vocals, piano, bass, drums, keyboards, alto sax, tenor sax, x2 trumpets
6-piece band: female vocals, piano, bass, drums, keyboard, tenor sax
Jazz bands (3-6 piece): available in any combination; i.e. quartet – piano, bass, drums, tenor sax
Previous clients/Venues
E-ON UK
Mellon Ltd
Goldcrest Land
The Royal Air Force, Bicester
The Berkeley Hotel, Knightsbridge, London
The Imagination Gallery, London
Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, Great Milton, Oxford
The Oxfordshire Golf and Country Club
Gray's Inn, Inns of Court, London
The Carriage House Restaurant, Claydon House
Buxted Park, East Sussex
Enfield Chace Hotel, Middlesex
St. Michael's Manor Hotel, St. Albans
The Rose & Crown, Henley-on-Thames
Magdalen College, OxfordR32;Keble College, Oxford
St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
The Favela Jazz & Soul Band – Function Band Repertoire List
Songs marked with an asterisk (*) can only be played by the full 9-piece band. The other songs can be played by our three function band line-ups – the 6-piece, 7-piece and 9-piece.
Rat Pack & Jazz
Frank Sinatra
Come Fly With Me
Fly Me to the Moon
For Once in My Life
Have you met Miss Jones
I Get a Kick Out of You*
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
The Lady is a Tramp*
Luck Be a Lady*
Mack the Knife
Me & My Shadow
My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)*
New York, New York*
Strangers in the Night
The Tender Trap*
That’s Life
The Way You Look Tonight*
Dean Martin
Ain’t That a Kick in the Head
Sway
Nat 'King' Cole
Almost Like Being in Love*
Let There Be Love
Let’s Face the Music and Dance*
L-O-V-E
Straighten up and Fly Right
Michael Buble
All of Me*
Call Me Irresponsible*
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
Etta James
At Last
Billie Holiday
That Ole Devil Called Love
Ella Fitzgerald
They Can’t Take That Away From Me
Manhattan
Black Coffee
Louis Armstrong
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
What a Wonderful World
Nina Simone
Feeling Good
My Baby Just Cares For Me
Judy Garland
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart*
Shirley Bassey
‘S Wonderful
Dinah Washington/Jamie Cullum
What a Difference a Day Makes
Classic Big Band & Latin
Glenn Miller
American Patrol*
In The Mood*
Pennsylvania 6-5000*
Count Basie
Cute*
L'il Darlin'*
Ya Gotta Try*
Benny Goodman
Sing, Sing, Sing*
Doris Day
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
Dizzy Gillespie
Manteca
The Andrews Sisters
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy*
Ray Charles
One Mint Julep*
Perez Prado
Mambo No 5*
Rosemary Clooney
Mambo Italiano
Why Don’t You Do Right
Ella Fitzgerald
Mas Que Nada*
Christmas Songs
Frank Sinatra
Let It Snow*
Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
Andy Williams
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Maria Carey
All I Want For Christmas Is You
Eartha Kitt
Santa Baby
Nat ‘King’ Cole
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Jackson 5
Frosty the Snowman
Soul & Motown
Stevie Wonder
Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing
I Just Called To Say I Love You
Isn’t She Lovely
Knocks Me Off My Feet
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Sir Duke
Superstition*
Michael Jackson & Jackson 5
Blame it on the Boogie
I Want You Back*
Man in the Mirror
Rock With You*
Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough*
The Way You Make Me Feel
Aretha Franklin
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough*
I Say a Little Prayer For You
Respect
Son of a Preacher Man
Think*
Until You Come Back to Me
Curtis Mayfield
Move On Up
Dusty Springfield
Am I The Same Girl
Marvin Gaye
Let's Get It On*
Rose Royce
Car Wash*
Etta James
I Just Wanna Make Love to You
Amy WInehouse
Valerie
James Brown
I Feel Good*
James Taylor
How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You
Andy Williams
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Billy Joel
Just The Way You Are
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Heatwave
Tom Jones
It's Not Unusual
Earth, Wind and Fire
September
Dolly Parton
9 to 5
Jamiroquai
Love Foolosophy*
Otis Redding
My Girl
Average White Band
Work To Do*
Van Morrison
Someone Like You
CeCe Peniston
Finally
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
The Tracks of My Tears
George Benson
Give Me The Night |