The Creswell Club
12 reviews- Philadelphia, PA
- Jazz Band
- Travels nationwide
- $1,200–$10,000
Overview
The Creswell Club is a constellation of musicians who play music that makes life better. We love jazz standards and music from the 1920s, but we play everything from swing to bossa, Motown to Sinatra, Edith Piaf to Lana Del Rey. We play hard, dress well and look like we’re having a blast, because we are!
We can be anything from a duo to a septet—we offer guitar, piano, bass, drums, sax, trumpet, clarinet, banjo, accordion and vocals.
We've played with celebrated names in music, including Herbie Hancock and Chaka Khan. But when we’re playing together what matters is the music. What matters is the mood. What matters is the moment we’re all sharing together—you, us and the people in the room.
12 Reviews
I couldn't be happier that the Creswell Club played at our wedding! We had an accordion/bass/clarinet/drums quartet. They played beautifully and many wedding guests commented about how lovely the music was. I posted my wedding on GigMasters only a few weeks before the wedding, and Dan from the Creswell Club contacted me right away. He was an absolute pleasure to interact with from beginning to end, always responding to my emails quickly and thoroughly, making suggestions while being extremely open to what we wanted. He also coordinated with the venue. I really didn't have to worry about anything and it all worked out perfectly. Thank you Dan and Creswell Club! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
1920s Era Entertainment, 1930s Era Entertainment, 1940s Era Entertainment, 1950s Era Entertainment, Accordion Player, French Entertainment, Jazz Band, Wedding Band
Response from The Creswell Club:
Thank you so much, Shiri! It was a pleasure playing for you! —Dan
Dan and his band helped make our amazing day even more special. They were on time, polite, quick to setup, and were flexible in terms of our special request: we had asked Dan himself to announce the bridal parties and different events like "father-daughter dance", and he did willingly and expertly. The band sounded great, and the lead singer was extremely talented, performing the song for our first dance beautifully. Our guests were also thoroughly impressed with the Dan Martin Band, and several asked about using them for future events. Thank you, Dan!
Easy Listening Band, Jazz Band, Oldies Music, Wedding Band, Wedding Singer
Response from The Creswell Club:
Thank you very much, Tiffany! Congratulations! —Dan
Photos from this event
We asked these guys to play at our wedding for 2 hours. Despite the heavy traffic they were at the venue on time. Because it was first dance we spoke to the singer before the party and she was very helpful. People who danced to certain songs the band extended to get the party going.
Hire them for any event you won't regret it!!
Wedding Singer
Response from The Creswell Club:
Thank you so much, Rifat! The group loved playing for your wedding.
Congratulations!
—Dan
As we were looking for wedding bands, we read the many great reviews for Dan Martin Music on various websites. After speaking with Dan on the phone we decided to book them for our wedding (for both cocktail hour and the reception). Dan was extremely easy to deal with throughout the entire process, and made us feel extremely comfortable. Because they were so easy to deal with, and were so professional, we knew we had made the right decision to go with them before they even played a single song on our wedding day.
And on our wedding day, we couldn't have been more pleased. My wife loves jazz and the 1920s, so during cocktail hour she asked them to play a list of songs from that era. The trio played brilliantly. For our reception, we had a quintet play. We asked that they learn several songs (including our first dance song) and we were so impressed with their rendition for each. After dinner, they picked up the pace of the songs a bit, and everyone danced the night away. Everytime I was either on the dance floor, or looking at the dance floor, it was packed. They are such talented musicians. So many people came up to us to tell us how great the band was. DMM were so good that my father-in-law actually asked them for a CD, which Dan promptly sent to him within a few days.
There are so many details to worry about when you plan a wedding. If you book DMM, the last detail you'll need to worry about is the music. It's taken care of. So professional, courteous, and just extremely easy to work with.
Dan, thanks again for playing our wedding. You guys were amazing.
Wedding Band
Response from The Creswell Club:
Dear Andrew and Inna:
Thank you so much! We were happy to play for your beautiful wedding!
Best,
Dan
Where do I start? I can't say enough wonderful things about these guys. My husband and I worked with a LOT of different vendors for our wedding, and Dan Martin Music was hands down our favorite.
Not only do they have incredible raw talent when it comes to their music, but their professionalism throughout the ENTIRE hiring process--from initial contract to event performance--was unparalleled.
Dan consistently went out of his way to ensure that my husband and I had EXACTLY what we desired--whether it was choosing musician options for our quartet or ensuring songs or genres that we wanted to hear during our ceremony & cocktail hour. Upon our special request, Dan even transcribed the theme from Disney/Pixar's "UP" to play at our ceremony. It was absolutely beautiful, and it was one of my favorite moments from our wedding day.
When we were caught in a jam with our DJ running late for our reception, the guys even stayed an extra 15 minutes beyond their booking time to ensure that there was no lapse in music from our cocktail hour to reception. About ten different people came up to me during our cocktail hour alone and asked where we had found such a phenomenal quartet. In fact, my neighbor already plans on hiring Dan Martin Music for his next party!
So many wedding bands try to be too flashy when it comes to their performances and catching the attention of your crowd. Unlike those bands, Dan Martin Music had one focus at our wedding--to do their job, and to do it well. I'd recommend these guys to anyone in a heartbeat (and already have been to my newly engaged friends!). A true class act, and the humblest group of musicians I've ever met. They'll give you a performance that will knock your socks off. Guaranteed.
Wedding Band
Response from The Creswell Club:
Thank you so much, Alison and Robert! It was a pleasure to play for you.
Cheers!
Dan
We booked Dan Martin's group for our Mother's 90th birthday party and they were all we ever hoped for. The party was geared to an older age group and the music they performed was timely (the 40's and 50's). They were professional and did everything we asked them to do. On top of all that, they are terrific musicians. I have no doubt we will be using them again in the future. I highly recommend Dan Martin Music for any event.
1940s Era Entertainment, 1950s Era Entertainment, Easy Listening Band
Dan Martin Music was great and really easy to work with! They helped us out last minute with two great musicians to play music during a retail event. The musicians were prompt and professional, and open to playing a mix of songs I provided. It was a great event that made our customers very happy. I highly recommend hiring them for any event, corporate or private.
Jazz Band, Easy Listening Band, Jazz Guitarist, Oldies Music
We reached out to Dan to inquire about playing a funeral - not only was he responsive and caring, he got terrific musicians together on one day's notice - it was truly a blessing.
The performers who played were perfect in terms of repertoire and instruments and arrived nearly and hour early. They had terrific personalities and were genuinely likable. They also consulted with family members to make sure everything in the service was perfect, from start to finish.
I cannot say enough good things about my experience working with Dan Martin Music and only hope we have an opportunity to use them again for a more festive occasion.
New Orleans Style Entertainment
I'd highly recommend Dan. We had a wonderful time with the 3 piece jazz band he provided.
Jazz Band
Response from The Creswell Club:
Thank you very much. It was a pleasure playing for you!
-Dan
First time using Dan Martin and they were fabulous. Very professional but very friendly. Willing to do whatever was needed. The music was so appropriate for the event- I didn't have to spend time explaining what we needed, they just knew. Would hire them again and they would be my first choice -
Professional Event Planner.
Jazz Band, Bassist, Jazz Band, Jazz Guitarist
We were very impressed with Dan and his band. It added just the right touch to our daughter's wedding! A nice change from a regular string quartet. Thank you guys for adding a touch of class to the day!
Jazz Band, Bassist, Jazz Guitarist
Response from The Creswell Club:
It was a beautiful wedding. I'm so happy we got to be a part of it!
-Dan
These guys were great! Joshua on the piano was especially accommodating. We had piano, drums and double Bass.
Jazz Band
Booking Info
Price Range: $1,200–$10,000
Gig Length: 10 - 420 minutes
Languages: English, Spanish
Insurance: $2,000,000 - We have full liability coverage. We can provide a copy of our certificate of coverage upon request.
Website: Visit website
Phone Number: Call
What to Expect
We’re so glad you’re here. Four things to know about us:
1. We’re friendly, flexible, top-shelf musicians who love the worldwide evolution of jazz in the 20th century. And who play like people in love.
2. We’re not so much a jazz band as an emotional weather system. We’re a party on Gatsby’s lawn. We’re a cobblestone street in Paris at dusk. We’re a nightclub in Rio. We’re the early hours of the morning in the French Quarter of New Orleans. We’re a mood, an atmosphere, an experience.
3. We’re here for you. We love talking with clients about styles and song lists. We know thousands of songs, and we’re always eager to try new songs and new arrangements. We’re also magically able to transform ourselves into different combinations, from a duo to a septet—anything with guitar, piano, bass, drums, sax, trumpet, or vocals (plus clarinet, banjo, and accordion!).
5. We were Gigmasters’ 2016 Top Jazz Ensemble, we’ve won “Best of Gigmasters” awards three years in a row, and we’ve played with people like Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, and Ray Charles. But we don’t play for likes, or ratings, or stars. We play for love, we play for lovers, and we’d love to play for you.
Additional Booking Notes
Our setup is simple! Most often, the only things we need are:
— chairs without arms
— access to one regular power outlet
— a place to put instrument cases
We bring all the necessary audio equipment to be heard by your guests. If you need additional audio equipment, for example a PA system for speeches, we would be happy to provide one for a small additional fee.
Services Offered
Past Booked Events
| May 11, 2018 • 8:30pm - 10:00pm | Birthday Party |
| May 09, 2018 • 11:30am - 1:30pm | Nonprofit Event |
| April 08, 2017 • 1:00pm - 4:00pm | Wedding Reception |
| October 17, 2015 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Wedding, Elks Lodge Hoboken |
| September 25, 2015 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Wedding, East Setauket, NY |
| April 06, 2014 | Private Party |
| February 13, 2014 | Corporate Event |
Set List
This in a very incomplete list of songs we've played in the last four years:
ABC
Ac-Cent-Chu-Ate the Positive
African Flower
Afro Blue
After You've Gone
Agua de Beber
Ain't Misbehavin'
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Ain’t She Sweet
Ain’t That a Shame
Airegin
Airmail Special
Al di La
Alfie
All About That Bass
All Blues
All Night Long
All of Me
All of You
All of Me (John Legend)
All or Nothing at All
All the Things You Are
All You Need Is Love
Almost Like Being in Love
Alone Together
Alright Okay You Win
Always
Am I Blue?
And I Love Her
Anema e Core
Anything Goes
April Come She Will
April in Paris
At Last
At the Jazz Band Ball
Au Privave
Autumn in New York
Autumn Leaves
Autumn Serenade
Avalon
Baby Face
Baby, It's Cold Outside
Baby We've Got a Date
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
Back in Baby's Arms
Ballin’ the Jack
Barbados
Basin Street Blues
Beatrice
Beautiful Love
Begin the Beguine
Belleville
Bemsha Swing
Besame Mucho
Bessie's Blues
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Big Butter and Egg Man
Big Yellow Taxi
Bill Bailey
Billie’s Bounce
Birth of the Blues, The
Black and Blue
Black and Tan Fantasy
Black Orpheus
Blame It on My Youth
Bloomdido
Bluebird
Blue Bossa
Blue Eyes
Blue in Green
Blue Monk
Blue Moon
Bluesette
Blues for Alice
Blue Skies
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
Blue Suede Shoes
Body and Soul
Botch-a-Me
Bud's Blues
But Not for Me
Bye Bye Blackbird
Bye Bye Blues
Canal Street Blues
Canetella
Can’t Buy Me Love
Can’t Help Falling in Love
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
Caravan
Careless Love
Centerpiece
C’est Si Bon
Chain of Fools
Chan Chan
The Charleston
Cheek to Cheek
Cherokee
Chicago
Chi-Chi
Ciribirbin
Cissy Strut
Close Your Eyes
Coimbra
Come Away With Me
Come Fly With Me
Come Rain or Come Shine
Come See About Me
Come Sunday
Come Together
Compadre Pedro Juan
Confessin' (That I Love You)
Confirmation
Con Te Partiro
Coquette
Corcovado
Cou-Cou
Cousin Mary
Cravo e Canela
Crazy
Daphne
Darn That Dream
Days of Wine and Roses
Deed I Do
De los Amores
Desafinado
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Diga Diga Do
Dinah
Dindi
Doin’ the New Low-Down
Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me
Don’t Be Cruel
Don't Be That Way
Don't Fence Me In
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Don’t Know Why
Doxy
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Dream Dancing
Drive My Car
Earth Angel
East of the Sun
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
Eleanor Rigby
Embraceable You
Emily
En Attendant le Jour
Equinox
Estate
Everybody Loves My Baby
Exactly Like You
Fever
Fifty-Second Street Theme
Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
Fly Me to the Moon
Foggy Day, A
Footprints
For Sentimental Reasons
Four or Five Times
Freddie Freeloader
From This Moment On
Funiculi, Funicula
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
Georgia On My Mind
Gentle Rain
Girl from Ipanema, The
Glory Days
Glory of Love
Glow-Worm
God Bless the Child
Gone With the Wind
Good Golly Miss Molly
Got My Mojo Workin’
Great Pretender
Green Dolphin Street
Guantanamera
Hallelujah
Happy
Hava Negila
Have I Told You Lately
Have You Met Miss Jones
Hevenu Shalom Aleichem
High Society
Honeysuckle Rose
Hound Dog
How About You
How Come You Do Me Like You Do
How Deep Is the Ocean
How High the Moon
How Insensitive
I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But the Blues
I Can't Get Started
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
I Concentrate on You
I Could Write a Book
I Cover the Waterfront
Ida (Sweet as Apple Cider)
I Feel It All
I Get a Kick Out of You
I Got It Bad
I Got Rhythm
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
I'll Be Seeing You
I'll Take Romance
I Love You
I’m a Little Blackbird
I’m Glad There Is You
I Mean You
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
I'm Old Fashioned
I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
I’m Walkin’
In a Mellow Tone
In a Sentimental Mood
Inchworm
Indiana
In Love in Vain
In My Life
In the Mood
In the Still of the Night
Invitation
I Remember You
I Should Care
Isle of Capri
Isn't She Lovely
Is This Love
I Surrender Dear
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
It Don't Mean a Thing
I Thought About You
It Never Entered My Mind
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
It's Only a Paper Moon
It’s Too Soon to Know
I've Found a New Baby
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
I've Got the World on a String
I've Got You Under My Skin
I Want to Be Happy
I Will
I Wish
Ja-Da
Jeepers Creepers
Jitterbug Waltz
Joint Is Jumpin’, The
Josette
Just a Gigolo
Just Friends
Killer Joe
Killing Me Softly
Killing Time
Kiss to Build a Dream On
Lady Bird
Lady Is a Tramp, The
Lamento Borincano
Let There Be Love
Limehouse Blues
Linger Awhile
Long Time Gone
Love for Sale
Love Letters
Love Me Tender
Lucky Southern
Lullaby of Birdland
Lullaby of Broadway
Makin' Whoopee
Mambo Italiano
Man I Love, The
Marchand de Poissons
Mas Que Nada
Mean to Me
Meditation
La Mer
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Minor Swing
Misty
Moanin'
Moliendo Café
Moonglow
Moonlight in Vermont
Moon River
My Funny Valentine
My Girl
My Little Suede Shoes
My One and Only Love
My Shining Hour
My Ship
Nearness of You, The
Nica's Dream
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Night and Day
Night in Tunisia, A
Nobody But My Baby Is Getting My Love
Non Dimenticar
Norwegian Wood
Nothing But the Best
Nostalgia in Times Square
Now's the Time
Nuages
Oh, Lady Be Good
Old Devil Moon
Once I Loved
Once in a While
Once In Love With Amy
One Note Samba
Only You
On the Street Where You Live
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Opus One
Ornithology
Our Love Is Here to Stay
Out of Nowhere
Over the Rainbow
Peace
Pennies from Heaven
Perdido
Petite Fleur
Promenade aux Champs Elysees
Quando M’Innamoro
Quimbara
Recordame
Reflections
Relaxin' at Camarillo
Relief
Riverboat Shuffle
Rocks in My Bed
Rose of Picardy
Royal Garden Blues
Saint James Infirmary
Saint Louis Blues
Saint Thomas
Santa Lucia
Satin Doll
Save Your Love for Me
Secret Love
September in the Rain
September Song
Shiny Stockings
Singin’ in the Rain
Sister Sadie
Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay
Si Tu Vois Ma Mere
Skylark
So Danco Samba
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
Solar
Solitude
Somebody Loves Me
Someday My Prince Will Come
Someone to Watch Over Me
Something
Sometimes I’m Happy
Song Is You, The
So What
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
Spring Is Here
Star Dust
Star Eyes
Stars Fell on Alabama
Stella by Starlight
Stormy Weather
Straight, No Chaser
Summertime
Summer Wind
Sunrise, Sunset
Surrey With the Fringe on Top
Sweet Georgia Brown
Sweet Lorraine
Sweet Sue, It’s You
Swinging on a Star
Swonderful
Take the "A" Train
Taking a Chance on Love
Teenager in Love
Tenderly
Tenor Madness
Them There Eyes
There Is No Greater Love
There Will Never Be Another You
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’
These Foolish Things
They Can't Take That Away from Me
Till There Was You
Time After Time
Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye
Twist and Shout
Unforgettable
Until the Real Thing Comes Along
Uptown
Very Early
Very Thought of You
La Vie en Rose
Volare
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
We See
What a Diff’rence a Day Made
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
What a Wonderful World
Whatever Lola Wants
What Is This Thing Called Love
What's New?
When Day Is Done
When the Red, Red Robin
When the Saints Go Marching In
When You're Smiling
When You Wish Upon a Star
Where or When
Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Why Don’t You Do Right
Willow Weep for Me
Witchcraft
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
You and I
You Belong to Me
You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To
You Don't Know What Love Is
You Made Me Love You
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
You Stepped Out of a Dream
Zou Bisou Bisou
Team
| Dan Martin | Bassist/Band Leader |
Influences & Inspiration
Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Stevie Wonder, Fats Waller, Stan Getz, A.C. Jobim, Django Reinhardt, Miles Davis, Edith Piaf, Sidney Bechet
Setup Requirements
We travel light! Most often, we just need chairs and access to a standard power outlet.
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