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The Cowan Beck Group
ILL WIND excerpt
OLD DEVIL MOON excerpt
A VERY GOOD YEAR parody (Difference between Andy's life & Sinatra's)
THINGS HAVE CHANGED (Bob Dylan Oscar-winning tune)
From La La Land - (Cowan on vocals/Cajon, Beck on keyboard) - Another Night of Dark
Andy & The Nina Beck Trio + 1
Andy Cowan & The Nina Beck Trio + 1
Andy Cowan & The Nina Beck Trio + 1
Nina Beck
Andy Cowan
Andy Cowan & Nina Beck
Overview
Featured entertainers at the 46th Annual IMPACT Awards, CBS Studio Center, Oct. 1, 2022, this award-winning vocalist and jazz band have been favored by L.A. club owners, special event planners, and wedding parties throughout the 2000s. Combining their own musicality with the sound and intelligence of Sinatra and Bennett, they're more than a Sinatra tribute band and succeed by making the music their own. From swinging interpretations of the classic songbook, jazz, jazz-pop, Jobim, blues (including an Oscar-winning Dylan tune), originals, and comedic parodies written by featured vocalist/hand percussionist and Seinfeld veteran Andy Cowan, audiences will have a grand old time.
Reviews
1 review
Claudia G.
February 23, 2026My residents loved this group!
My residents loved Andy and Nina. Very professional team. We booked them again and look forward to other events.
Hired as: Jazz Band
Booking information
Price range: $450 and up
Gig length: 135 - 200 minutes
What to expect
Classic songbook & jazzy renditions thereof, swing, Latin, blues, pop, very professional & entertaining emceeing (including smart comedy, performed and written by Cheers & Seinfeld veteran) comedic parodies of classic songbook
About
The Cowan Beck Group features vocalist, ANDY COWAN, an award-winning writer/performer (Seinfeld, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Cheers) whose natural command of the classic songbook AND lyrics separates him from the other pretenders to the throne. This Who's Who in America biographee has graced jazz clubs and special events throughout Los Angeles (and radio and TV) for over three decades, his youthful appearance notwithstanding, beginning with his breakthrough performance of "Sinatra" singing pop and rock songs of the '80s accompanied by Jack Sheldon, Plas Johnson & the rest of the stellar Mort Lindsey Orchestra on The Merv Griffin Show.
Andy's original country blues tune, Hitchin' on the Highway of Life (music, lyrics & vocals), with arrangements by Springsteen session musician, Marty Rifkin, has won five international songwriting nods and is featured in the film Andy wrote and appears in, Knocked Down (an official selection in the 2008 San Fernando Valley International Film Festival and 2009 Southeast New England Film, Music & Arts Festival, where it won for best comedy).
NINA BECK's keyboard prowess has been likened to world-renowned artists Diana Krall, Kenny Barron, and Marian MacPartland. A seasoned player/songwriter and veteran of major venues throughout Los Angeles, she's accompanied such greats as jazz and blues legendary vocalist Ernie Andrews.
Their basic configuration of top-flight musicians -- keyboard, bass, drums, vocals, can be augmented with sax/flute... or can start with an efficient duo -- keyboard/key bass, vocals/Cajon hand percussion
THIS GROUP'S TOP-NOTCH QUALITY AND PROFESSIONALISM CAN LEND AN EXCITING AIR TO ANY EVENT... AT A PRICE THAT'S EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE!
Services offered
Past booked events
March 2025
04
Tuesday
Retirement Community Event
2:30pm - 3:30pm
•
Tarzana, CA
June 2015
07
Sunday
Birthday (Adult)
6:00pm - 10:00pm
•
Long Beach, CA
December 2014
12
Friday
Christmas Party
7:00pm - 10:00pm
•
Santa Monica, CA
December 2013
17
Tuesday
Holiday Party
7:00pm - 10:00pm
•
Venice, CA
August 2013
17
Saturday
Birthday Party
6:00pm - 8:00pm
•
Marina Del Rey, CA
Set list
• Nice 'N' Easy - Frank Sinatra
• I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Frank Sinatra
• Old Devil Moon - Frank Sinatra
• Close Your Eyes - Tony Bennett
• April in Paris - Frank Sinatra
• I'll Remember April - Frank Sinatra
• All My Tomorrows - Frank Sinatra
• Medley: You Do Something to Me/You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To/From This Moment On/Day In, Day Out - Frank Sinatra
• Everyday I Have the Blues – B.B. King
• Parody - Obama Done Told me – Andy Cowan
• Another Night of Dark – Our version of La La Land theme
• A Day in the Life of a Fool - Frank Sinatra
• You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to - Frank Sinatra
• Doncha Go Away Mad - Frank Sinatra
• The Moon Was Yellow - Frank Sinatra
• Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan
• My Favorite Things - Tony Bennett
• Poinciana - Ahmad Jamal
• Sway - Michael Buble
• Stolen Moments – Carmen McRae
• Better Than Anything – Natalie Cole
• A Night in Tunisia – Dizzy Gillespie
• Hello - Lionel Richie
• Waiting For a Girl Like You – Foreigner
• Agua de Beber - Jobim
• I'm Beginning to See the Light - Frank Sinatra
• I Got a Right to Sing the Blues - Sarah Vaughan
• I Wish I Were in Love Again - Frank Sinatra
• It's All Right With Me - Frank Sinatra
• What is This Thing Called Love? - Mel Tormé
• Comin' Home Baby - Mel Tormé
• Comes Love - Joni Mitchell
• Yesterdays - Barbra Streisand
• How Am I to Know? - Shirley Horn
• A Time for Love - Tony Bennett
• Maybe This Time – Tony Bennett
• All of You – Mark Murphy
• Never Will I Marry - Nancy Wilson
• Autumn Serenade - Mel Tormé
• Where Am I Going? - Barbra Streisand
• All of Me - Frank Sinatra
• Baby, Baby All the Time – Diana Krall
• Let's Fall in Love - Frank Sinatra
• Parody - The Lady is a Man - Andy Cowan
• Hitchin' on the Highway of Life - written by Andy Cowan (multiple song awards and film placements)
• 20th Century Man – Andy Cowan
• Parody - A Very Good Year - Andy Cowan
• The Lady’s In Love With You – Mark Murphy
• Green Dolphin Street - Sarah Vaughan
• Let's Face the Music - Frank Sinatra
• Out of This World - Sammy Davis Jr.
• Pickup – Nat King Cole
• Everything Must Change – Luther Vandross
• With a Song in my Heart - Sammy Davis Jr.
• By Myself - Sammy Davis Jr.
• They Say It’s Wonderful – Kurt Elling
• Letters - Andy Cowan, written by Nina Beck
• The Girl From Ipanema – Shirley Horn
• Too Close For Comfort - Frank Sinatra
• Nice Work if You Can Get It - Frank Sinatra
• Makin' Whoopie - Frank Sinatra
• I Get a Kick - Frank Sinatra
• I Love Paris - Frank Sinatra
• You'll Get Yours - Frank Sinatra
• I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Frank Sinatra
• Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra
• Love for Sale - Dianne Reeves
• The Way You Look Tonight - Frank Sinatra
• Come Dance With Me - Frank Sinatra
• Dindi - Frank Sinatra
• Meditation - Frank Sinatra
• How Insensitive - Frank Sinatra
• Spring is Here - Frank Sinatra
• That Old Feeling - Frank Sinatra
• I Concentrate on You - Frank Sinatra
• All or Nothing at All - Frank Sinatra
• You Stepped out of a Dream - Shirley Horn
• Parody - Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee
• I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance - Frank Sinatra
• When I Take My Sugar to Tea - Frank Sinatra
• I Hadn't Anyone till You - Dianne Reeves
• I've Got a Crush on You - Frank Sinatra
• You and the Night and the Music - Frank Sinatra
• Invitation – Mel Torme
• Oh Look at Me Now! - Frank Sinatra
• No One Ever Tells You - Frank Sinatra
• Our Love is Here to Stay - Frank Sinatra
• In the Still of the Night - Frank Sinatra
• She's Funny That Way - Frank Sinatra
• Blizzard of Lies - Dave Frishberg
• Come Rain or Come Shine - Frank Sinatra
• All the Way - Frank Sinatra
• Brazil – Frank Sinatra
• Ill Wind – Frank Sinatra
• Moonlight Serenade – Frank Sinatra
• Please Don’t Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Frank Sinatra
• Dancing in the Dark – Frank Sinatra
• Mood Indigo – Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett
Influences and inspiration
Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Shirley Horn, Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dianne Reeves, Bob Dylan, Paul Anka
Testimonials
Thank you again for the job that you and your troupe did on our 4th of July evening. You and your band were really, really terrific! Exactly what we wanted as well as needed. I'll DEFINITELY keep you in mind for ANY events - at all of our properties that would necessitate music. I am a man of my word and will keep you in mind.... for everything. (I also am a big fan of your band - so your staying in mind for events is not going to be difficult for me). PS: Did you check out our twitter today? I've Twittered about your website and music! Hopefully, this shoots you some business. With close to 200 "followers" watching our twitter updates, the Twitter I did for you SHOULD bring some exposure.
– Cameron Zeidler
Hi Andy and Nina! I just want to send you this note to thank you for the excellent job you did for us at my anniversary party. I must say Andy, I was totally AMAZED at how much you sounded like Frank Sinatra! You have his sound and style down pat! And that backup band of yours is fantastic! I just didn't know how wonderful live Jazz could be in a party atmosphere and how swing music could make people get up and dance all night! (that is, for us folks who have always been Sinatra fans and jazz fans, not that the Latin tunes you also played were in any way less so). I am very glad we found you and will put you on the top of our list for any other similar events that we host. All our friends were delighted you came, promptly and well prepared. Good luck with your new ventures and hope to have you again some time soon. Thank You
– Rachel Mathews
I'm happy to recommend you, you have always done a great job and I've enjoyed working with you. Let me know if I can be of service in any way! I look forward to working with you and your group again in the near future.
– Leslie Sylver
Andy Cowan and the Nina Beck Trio entertained the crowd at the Hip Kitty Jazz and Fondue Club in Claremont on March 20. This was another successful night for the Hip Kitty as the group gave a great jazz performance. “They are really good,” booker Chris Needham said. “I think he sounded a lot like Frank Sinatra.” Cowan’s smooth voice and great vibe kept the crowd entertained and relaxed as they enjoyed their meals. The band played well together and made a great debut. Beck, the pianist, is a familiar face around the café. Nancy Tessier, Hip Kitty owner, noted that Beck plays there every Tuesday for piano night, and is quite good. Beck is so good in fact that Tessier said she takes requests from the crowd and can play almost anything. Cowan, originally from Philadelphia, resides in Santa Monica and has been singing in jazz clubs and on TV for about 20 years. He's also written for popular sitcoms, like Seinfeld. The comparisons between Cowan and Sinatra have been made throughout the years, giving Cowan a priceless compliment to his performances.
– Victoria Allende
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