Montecito Jazz Project

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Booking Info: Free Quote 805-969-4517 Official Website Travels 60 miles from Santa Barbara Fee: $75 per hour per musician Accepts PayPal Languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish Member Since 2012

Why hire Montecito Jazz Project?

MJP will provide standard, Latin and/or funky jazz for your event or club. We can play in a duo, trio, all the way up to a full sextet and can include a vocalist with any of those configurations.

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They are our House Band!

Fundraiser MJP has been our House Band for the past 3 years, playing for two fundraising events per year, and sometimes at other, smaller events. Bandleader Tom Towle is professional, easy to work with, and gives us a very generous non-profit rate for their services. Musically, they are first-rate, and they have been wonderfully adaptable in coming up with music to fit the themes of our events.

Hired by: Justine S.

: Expertise
: Communication
: Professionalism
: Priced Fairly
: Adaptability

Organization: Friendship Adult Day Care Center
Event Date: August 24th, 2012
Event: Fundraiser in Santa Barbara, California
Services provided: Jazz Band, Multi-Instrumentalist

Great musicians, great guys!

Awards Night Montecito Jazz provided the music for the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Awards, presented by the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Foundation, for the past two years, and they were great. As we celebrated high school and SBCC student entrepreneurs for winning the Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship's New Venture Challenge as well as eight of Santa Barbara's outstanding women entrepreneurs, they provided just the right music for each part of the evening. We plan to have them play again at our 2013 Awards on May 10.

Hired by: Cathy F.

: Expertise
: Communication
: Professionalism
: Priced Fairly
: Adaptability

Organization: Spirit of Entrepreneurship Foundation
Event Date: May 11th, 2012
Event: Awards Night in Santa Barbara, California
Services provided: Jazz Band

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Overview

About

The Montecito Jazz Project began as a collaboration between Drummer Tom Ray and Bass Player Tom Towle in 2005. Soon Saxophonist Jeff Regan joined in and added blistering solos and Guitarist Mark Coffin showed up and brought his own guitar stylings, providing perfect complementary accompaniment and tasty soloing. The quartet then went into the studio and made recordings for demos.

With every change of venue, the combo may feature a different set of gifted musicians, as Santa Barbara's Jazz Underground has a good-sized pool of talent.From time to time, other configurations of the group morph to form various sounds.

Recently, trumpeter Lee Neuenschwander, flute players Carmen Kuchera, Suzanne Duffy, George DeFillippo and pianists John Leonard, Mike Conaway, Marty Martin have accompanied the combo at various events.

Personnel

Tom Towle: Bassist/Bandleader
Mark Coffin: Guitarist
Michael Farley: Tenor Sax
Michael Conaway: Keyboardist
Lee Neuenschwander: Horns

Influences

Kim Collins, Debbie Denke, Jaco Pastorius, Ray Brown, Randy Tico, Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, Django Rheinhardt, Max Roach, Tony Williams, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, Tom Jobim, Miles Davis, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, John Tropea, Eumir Deodata, Brian Fanning, Wendell Lovett, Patrick Miller

What to Expect

Typical Gig Duration: 120 - 240 minutes

Stage/Setup Requirements:
Electricity

Set/Song/Sequence List:
MJP basic playlist – Margie, funkify

1. Afro Blue
2. Afternoon in Paris
3. All Blues
4. All of Me
5. All or Nothing At All
6. All The Things You Are
● At Last -
7. Autumn Leaves
● Besame Mucho
8. Black Orpheus
9. Blue Bossa
10. Blue Monk
11. Blue Trane
12. Blues for Alice
13. Bluesette
14. Cantelope Island
15. Caravan
16. Caravan
17. Ceora
18. Chega de Saudade
19. Cherokee
● Come Fly with Me
● Comes Love -
20. Corcovado
● Cry Me A River -
21. Darn That Dream
22. Days of Wine and Roses
23. Desafinado
24. Devil May Care
● Devil May Care
● Dindi -
● Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
25. Dindi
26. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
● Don’t Go to Strangers
● Embraceable You
27. Equinox
28. Fly Me to the Moon
● Fever
29. Footprints
30. Four
31. Freddie Freeloader
● Gee Baby
● Georgia
32. Gentle Rain
33. Girl from Ipanema
34. Green Dolphin
● Green Dolphin Street
35. Have You Met Miss Jones
36. How High the Moon
37. How Insensitive
● Hungry Girl
● I Love Being Here With You
● If You Never Come to Me
38. If I Should Lose You
39. Impressions
40. Invitation
● Is You Is
41. It Don’t Mean a Thing -
42. Jordu
43. Joyspring
44. Just Friends
45. Killer Joe
46. Lady Be Good
47. Lazy Bird
48. Lester Leaps In
49. Line for Lyons
50. Lullaby of Birdland
51. Masquerade
● Masquerade
● Moonglow
52. Meditation
53. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
54. Morning
55. Mr. P.C.
56. My Favorite Things
57. My Funny Valentine
58. Night and Day
59. Night in Tunisia
● Oh Darlin’
● Old Devil Moon
60. Oleo
61. One Note Samba
62. On a Clear Day
63. Out of Nowhere
64. Recado Al Bossa
1. Recordame
2. Red Clay
● Route 66
● Oh Darlin’
● Old Devil Moon
65. Satin Doll
66. SCRAPPLE
67. Shadow of Your Smile
● Slow Boat to China
68. Smokin’ a Cuban
69. So Nice (Summer Samba)
70. Solar
71. Some Day My Prince Will Come
72. Song for My Father
73. St. Thomas
74. Stella by Starlight
75. Stolen Moments
76. Straight No Chaser
● Straighten Up and Fly Right
77. Sugar
● Summer Wind
● Sway
78. Take 5
79. Take the A-Train
80. Tenor Madness
● The Look of Love
81. There Will Never Be Another You
82. Tico Tico
83. Triste
84. Tune-Up
85. Wave
86. Well You Needn’t
87. What Is This Thing Called Love
88. When Sunny Gets Blue
89. Yardbird Suite
● You Don’t Know Me
90. You Don’t Know What Love Is
91. You Stepped Out of A Dream
92. You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To