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Favela Jazz and Soul Band


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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.

More Information & demo tracks here

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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

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