After Midnight

We are Colorado's Premier Swing Band! Our music is challenging, fun, exciting, and danceable for young and old. You and your audience will love our unique sound and style!

From start to finish, you'll find us experienced and absolutely professional. We return calls and emails within hours. We always use a contract and confirm all event details by email in advance. We show up early, are ready on time for sound checks, keep a neat stage, and dress to impress. Our stage banter is light, funny, clean, and insightful, full of historical tidbits about this great American artform. We look like we are having fun because we are! We finish on time and tear down quickly. The stage is clean when we leave. Finally we follow-up with you to express our gratitude for supporting After Midnight and live music!

We expect you to provide a 50% deposit with the balance due at the gig. You also need to provide electricity and room for us to perform. For smaller events of up to 150 people or so, we can provide our own sound system (microphones and speakers) and stage lighting, if needed. For larger shows, we can recommend several sound companies we have worked with over the years. We'll provide your engineer with our stage map including technical details. If we are outside, you need to provide a covering of some kind to protect the musicians and our equipment from sun and rain. We can arrange for a 'rain' date in advance if it is too wet or cold, but you'll lose your deposit if you cancel less than 24 hours before the start of the gig. We also love it when clients provide a tuned piano and/or any backline equipment like drums and amps. For gigs outside of Colorado, clients need to provide airfare, lodging (six rooms), and ground transportation. It also helps with baggage fees if you provide all backline equipment including a vibraphone.

We've done this for a long time (over 25 years!) and have played a lot of gigs (over 1,000!). If you have any questions about your event, we've probably heard it before or can advise on what works and what doesn't. Yes, we have emceed many wedding receptions. We also work with lots of dance instructors and troupes if you want to include teaching or a choreographed show. We can even recommend photographers and caterers. Bottom line - we are happy to partner with you to make your gig a huge success!

Jazz clarinet.  From the King of Swing to the King of the Clarinet, some of the greatest legends of the Big Band Era played the licorice stick.  Today, the clarinet lives on in the virtuosity of Roger Campbell and his sextet, After Midnight!  Since 1999, this fabulous group of musicians has performed thousands of concerts around the world for jazz festivals, clubs, weddings, summer concerts, and more!

Our instrumentation is unlike any other band in the region and very few in the world -- we feature Clarinet, Vibraphone, Piano, Bass, Guitar/Vocals, and Drums.  What's a Vibraphone?  It's a lot like bells or marimba, but has vibrato when you hit the metal bars.  From time to time we are also fortunate to work with some of the best "chick" singers around including Jodi Renee, Wende Harston, Lisa Bell, and Joni Janak.  We've even worked with actress Lea Thompson and her daughter Madelyn Deutch!

We've done thousands of concerts, weddings, events, festivals, dances, and clubs over the years.  Some of the more memorable ones include:
Pentastic Jazz and Music Festival
Monterey Jazz Bash by the Bay
Sacramento Jazz Jubilee
Capital City Jazz Festival
Sun Valley Jazz Festival
Evergreen Jazz Festival
Taste of Colorado
San Diego Jazz Festival
Cherry Creek Arts Festival
Jazz in the Sangres Festival

We feature a number of tribute shows to Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Lionel Hampton -- perfect for your next concert. We've also done over 200 weddings! Our book includes at least 5000 songs, so we can do just about anything that's jazz or swing.

It's sophisticated jazz unlike anything you've heard before!

For smaller events of up to 150 people or so, we can provide our own sound system (microphones and speakers) and basic stage lighting, if needed. For larger shows, we can recommend several sound and lighting companies we have worked with over the years. We'll provide your engineer with our stage map including technical details like setup, inputs, microphone needs, and monitor placement. We love it when you provide backline like a tuned piano, amps, and a basic drum set. For gigs outside of Colorado, you'll also cut down on baggage fees when you provide this equipment - including a vibraphone.

We do not allow audio or video recording of our shows without express written consent in advance.