The Greg Jacobs Quartet
Overview
Greg Jacobs has played over 1000 gigs in the last five years. The Greg Jacobs Quartet plays a very tasteful selection of jazz standards and a few original compositions, always featuring the top Bay Area bassists, drummers, saxophonists, trumpeters, and vocalists. We aim to collaborate in creating musical artwork, where the musicians are communicating, trusting, and respecting one another while improvising a beautiful, moving, and original work. We also enjoy playing for audiences that want to dance and we are happy to tailor the music to your needs, if you request Latin Jazz, Funk, Blues or RnB. Greg Jacobs also has an extensive classical repertoire and can play ceremony music for Weddings.
Reviews
28 reviews
Camille A.
May 26, 2026San Francisco Conference
Greg was an amazing pianist for our event! Super talented and easy to work with, and our guests loved the ambiance his music added to the event. Highly recommend 10/10.
Hired as: Pianist
Roisin M.
September 30, 2025Excellent Music, Flexible Team
The Greg Jacobs Quartet created a wonderful atmosphere at our event and the music was excellent. They were also really helpful when we had issues with our payment process and were able to make it work. They even played an extra hour after we realized we would like them to play into the dinner. Would definitely recommend!
Hired as: Jazz Band
Ruben K.
May 27, 2025Great band, easy to work with, great musicianship
Booked the band as a jazz trio for a house party. Communication was easy. The band found their way around the house and started playing on their own. Vibe was perfect for the party, and we were all impressed by the musicianship. All in all, a great band and a great experience.
Hired as: Jazz Band
Peter N.
March 18, 2025Music is very danceable.
Excellent renditions of familiar tunes. When the band played background music for dinner, volume needed toning down.
Hired as: Jazz Band, Pianist
Jennifer T.
October 16, 2024Outstanding
Amazing, Beautiful and very talented. We are so pleased to have you and our event was amazing with your piano performance
Hired as: Pianist
Booking information
Price range: $200 - $10,000
Languages: English, Spanish
Gig length: 45 - 480 minutes
What to expect
The Greg Jacobs Quartet plays a tasteful selection of the standards of Swing, Bebop, Hardbop, Bossa Nova, and Latin Jazz, while also introducing original compositions. The focus is on the highest level of musicianship and respect for the music possible, so that the audience is really blown away by an unforgettable listening experience. We aim to collaborate in creating musical artwork, where the musicians are communicating, trusting, and respecting one another while creating a beautiful, moving, and original work.
We also enjoy playing for audiences that want to dance and party, if the client requests it, and we are happy to tailor the music to your needs, if you want sets of purely Latin Jazz, Funk, Blues or RnB for example. Greg Jacobs also has an extensive classical repertoire and can play ceremony music for Weddings.
The band enjoys dressing well and is comfortable and professional in the most elegant of settings.
About
Greg Jacobs was born in London, UK, and grew up in San Rafael, California. He started playing classical piano at 6 years old and fell in love with jazz as a teenager. Greg studied classical and jazz piano privately with Gini Wilson as a teenager and first started performing at private events with a jazz combo at 14 years old. He moved to San Francisco in 2007 to attend San Francisco State University, earning Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Physiology and Spanish while continuing to perform with his own group at private events and with the SFSU Jazz combos directed by Andrew Speight. In 2013, Greg started working full-time as a jazz pianist performing at private events and local venues, and has since performed at the SFJAZZ Miner Auditorium, Blue Note Napa, Black Cat, Dawn Club, Mr. Tipple’s Jazz Club, Club Deluxe, The Guild Theater, Bird and Beckett, and numerous other local venues, either with his own group or with ensembles led by musicians such as Marcus Shelby, Denise Perrier, Gerald Beckett, Andrew Dixon and Daniel Herrera, Noah Frank, Niel Levonius, Danny Brown, Noel Jewkes, Chris Amberger, Mete Tasin, Rodney Ruckus, and many more. Greg has developed a versatile voice with the instrument that incorporates his virtuosic technique with his in-depth study of a variety of musical idioms from swing, bebop, blues, and hard bop, to Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, funk, classical, and the avant-garde. Greg has also been the musical director and pianist at a local church since 2020, maintains a studio of about 7 – 10 private piano students, has been the pianist-conductor or pianist for numerous musical theater productions, and played Fender Rhodes on Sueños Jazz Quintet’s 2017 release, “Shots Fired.”
Some of Greg's musical and pianistic influences are Art Tatum, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner, McCoy Tyner, Wynton Kelly, and Sonny Clark. But he draws from a very wide range of musical idioms. He performs with many of the top jazz musicians in the Bay Area and would be delighted to bring them to your event for an unforgettable musical experience. These include Chris Amberger, Danny Brown, Noah Frank, Joe Cohen, James Mahone,, Mark Anthony Lee, Leon Joyce, Azure McCall, Brian Fishler, Peter Barshay, Akira Tana, Aaron Germain, Ollie Dudek, Eli Maliwan, Lyle Link, Rodney Ruckus, Joe McKinley, David Rokeach, Giulio Cetto, Charles Thomas, Bob Kenmotsu, Ron Marabuto, and many other extraordinary musicians.
Additional booking notes
We can perform in almost any setting as long as we communicate ahead of time about important details such as if the gig is indoors or outdoors, if there is a piano on-site, special requirements for when to load-in or load-out, etc. For a large event or festival we ask the client to provide a sound system and sound technician, otherwise the band will bring all necessary speakers and sound equipment.
Past booked events
May 2026
21
Thursday
Corporate Event
7:30am - 4:30pm
•
San Francisco, CA
08
Friday
Nonprofit Event
11:00am - 2:00pm
•
San Mateo, CA
September 2025
29
Monday
Corporate Event
7:00pm - 8:00pm
•
San Francisco, CA
July 2025
28
Monday
Wedding Reception
6:30pm - 8:30pm
•
Woodside, CA
May 2025
25
Sunday
Birthday Party
8:00pm - 10:00pm
•
San Francisco, CA
March 2025
15
Saturday
Birthday Party
6:30pm - 9:30pm
•
Oakland, CA
01
Saturday
Retirement Community Event
1:00pm - 3:00pm
•
Sacramento, CA
December 2024
05
Thursday
Christmas Party
6:00pm - 8:00pm
•
San Francisco, CA
04
Wednesday
Corporate Event
4:00pm - 6:00pm
•
Santa Clara, CA
October 2024
17
Thursday
Fundraiser
7:30pm - 8:15pm
•
San Francisco, CA
September 2024
28
Saturday
Corporate Event
7:00pm - 9:30pm
•
Sonoma, CA
28
Saturday
Retirement Community Event
1:00pm - 3:30pm
•
Sacramento, CA
December 2023
31
Sunday
Cocktail Party
8:00pm - 12:00am (Mon)
•
San Rafael, CA
September 2023
24
Sunday
Birthday Party
12:00pm - 1:00pm
•
Ross, CA
16
Saturday
House Party
6:00pm - 7:00pm
•
Fremont, CA
03
Sunday
Birthday Party
4:30pm - 5:15pm
•
Campbell, CA
April 2023
23
Sunday
Fundraiser
4:00pm - 7:00pm
•
San Mateo, CA
December 2022
22
Thursday
House Party
5:00pm - 7:30pm
•
San Francisco, CA
18
Sunday
Concert
2:00pm - 6:00pm
•
Los Altos, CA
14
Wednesday
Fundraiser
7:00pm - 9:00pm
•
Los Gatos, CA
09
Friday
Christmas Party
5:30pm - 8:30pm
•
San Francisco, CA
September 2022
24
Saturday
Wedding Reception
6:00pm - 7:30pm
•
Elk, CA
August 2022
31
Wednesday
Retirement Community Event
2:30pm - 3:15pm
•
San Francisco, CA
February 2022
20
Sunday
Cocktail Party
5:00pm - 6:00pm
•
Berkeley, CA
13
Sunday
Wedding Ceremony
11:00am - 3:00pm
•
Fairfax, CA
December 2021
09
Thursday
Christmas Party
5:00pm - 9:00pm
•
San Francisco, CA
October 2021
12
Tuesday
House Party
10:00pm - 11:30pm
•
San Francisco, CA
April 2021
30
Friday
Wedding Reception
6:45pm - 9:45pm
•
Hayward, CA
September 2020
02
Wednesday
Personal Occasion
6:00pm - 7:00pm
•
Oakland, CA
July 2020
11
Saturday
House Party
2:00pm - 6:00pm
•
Redwood City, CA
March 2020
07
Saturday
Birthday Party
12:00pm - 3:00pm
•
San Ramon, CA
December 2019
24
Tuesday
Dinner Party
5:00pm - 7:00pm
•
Redwood City, CA
18
Wednesday
Cocktail Party
5:30pm - 8:30pm
•
San Francisco, CA
17
Tuesday
Christmas Party
6:00pm - 9:30pm
•
San Francisco, CA
October 2019
25
Friday
Wedding Ceremony
4:00pm - 9:00pm
•
American Canyon, CA
22
Tuesday
Cocktail Party
6:00pm - 10:00pm
•
San Francisco, CA
04
Friday
Corporate Event
7:00pm - 10:00pm
•
San Francisco, CA
June 2019
08
Saturday
Baby Shower
12:00pm - 3:00pm
•
San Francisco, CA
May 2019
23
Thursday
Corporate Event
6:00pm - 8:30pm
•
Oakland, CA
04
Saturday
Birthday Party
7:30pm - 10:00pm
•
San Francisco, CA
April 2019
27
Saturday
Campus Event
6:30pm - 9:30pm
•
Berkeley, CA
18
Thursday
Nonprofit Event
5:00pm - 6:30pm
•
Mill Valley, CA
January 2019
16
Wednesday
Cocktail Party
4:30pm - 6:30pm
•
Folsom, CA
13
Sunday
Personal Occasion
2:00pm - 3:30pm
•
San Francisco, CA
November 2018
03
Saturday
Bridal Shower
11:00am - 12:30pm
•
San Mateo, CA
July 2018
28
Saturday
Dinner Party
5:30pm - 8:30pm
•
San Francisco, CA
June 2018
13
Wednesday
Concert
3:00pm - 4:00pm
•
Palo Alto, CA
April 2018
08
Sunday
Product Promotion
2:00pm - 5:00pm
•
San Francisco, CA
Set list
Afro Blue
After You’ve Gone
Agua De Beber
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Airegin
Aisha
Alice in Wonderland
All of you
All Through The Night
Alone Together
Along came betty
Angel Eyes
Anthropology
April in paris
Ask me now
Au privave
Autumn in new York
Autumn Nocturne
Barbados
Beautiful friendship
Beautiful love
Be-Bop
Bemsha Swing
Bessie’s Blues
Bird Feathers
Birks works
Black Orpheus
Black Narcissus
Black Nile
Bloomdido
Blue and sentimental
Blue Bossa
Blue Daniel
Blue In Green
Bluesette
Blue Seven
Blue silver
Blues For Alice
Bohemia After Dark
Bolivia
Booker’s waltz
Boplicity
Bouncing With Bud
Brilliant Corners
Broadway
Buster Rides Again
But Beautiful
But Not For Me
Buzzy
Bye-Ya
Bye Bye Blackbird
Byrd Like
Cedar’s Blues
Celia
Central Park West
Ceora
C’est Si Bon
Charade
Cheesecake
Chega de Saudade
Chelsea Bridge
Cherokee
Cheryl
A Child Is Born
Close Your Eyes
Chippie
Conception
Con Alma
Confirmation
Cool Blues
Daahoud
Dance Of The Infadels
Darn That Dream
Dancing in the Dark
Dat Dere
Days of Wine and Roses
Dedicated to You
‘Deed I do
Deluge
Desafinado
Detour Ahead
Dewey Square
Dexter Rides Again
Dexterity
Dig
Dinah
Do Nothin’Till You Hear From Me
Do You Know What It Means
Dolphin Dance
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
Doodlin’
Early Autumn
East of the Sun
Easy Living
Easy To Love
El Gaucho
Embraceable You
Endless Stars
ESP
Favela
Fee Fi Fo Fum
Felicidade, A
52nd Street Theme
Filthy McNasty
First Trip
502 Blues
Fly Me To The Moon
Foggy Day, A
Footprints
Forest Flower
Full House
Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You
Get Out of Town
Girl From Ipanema, The
God Bless The Child
Godchild
Good Bait
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Grand Central
Groovin’ High
Hackensack
Hallucinations
Have You Met Miss Jones
Here’s That Rainy Day
Hocus Pocus
Horace Scope
House Of Jade
How Deep Is The Ocean
How High The Moon
How Insensative
How My Heart Sings
Humpty Dumpty
I Believe in You
I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
I Concentrate On You
I Cover The Waterfront
I Didn’t Know About You
I Didn’t Know What Time it Was
I Get A Kick Out Of You
I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good
I Hear a Rhapsody
I Love You
I Loves You Porgy
I Mean You
I Remember Clifford
I Thought About You
I Was Doing Alright
If I should Lose You
If You Never Come To Me
I’ll Remember April
I’ll Take Romance
Ill Wind
I’m Confessin’
In A Sentimental Mood
In Walked Bud
In Your Own Sweet Way
Inner Urge
Invitation
Interplay
Isfahan
Isotope
Israel
It Ain’t Necessarily So
It Could Happen To You
It Had To Be You
It’s You Or No One
It Might As Well Be Spring
Jeannine
Jitterbug Waltz
Jody Grind
Jordu
Joy Spring
JuJu
Jump Monk
Just Friends
Just One Of Those Things
The Kicker
Lady Be Good, Oh
Lady Bird
Lady Sings The Blues
Lazy Bird
Let’s Call This
Let’s Cool One
Limehouse Blues
Little Waltz
Little Willie Leaps
Lotus Blossom
Love For Sale
Lover Come Back To Me
Lover Man
Lullaby of the Leaves
Lush Life
Maiden Voyage
Mambo Influenciado
Mamblues
Mambo Inn
Man I Love, The
Manteca
The Masquerade is Over
May-Reh
Meditation
Memories of You
Minor Mood
Minority
Misty
Moanin’
Moment’s Notice
Monk’s Dream
Monk’s Mood
Mood Indigo
Moonglow
Moonlight In Vermont
Moose The Mooche
My Favorite Things
Mycasty
My Foolish Heart
My Funny Valentine
My Melancholy Baby
My Romance
My Shining Hour
Naima
Nardis
Nature Boy
The Nearness Of You
Nefertiti
Never Will I Marry
Nica’s Dream
Nigerian Marketplace
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Night And Day
Night Dreamer
Night Has A Thousand Eyes, The
Night Train
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
No Moe
No Moon at All
Nostalgia In Times Square
Nuages
Nutty
Obsesión
Off Minor
Old Country, The
Old Devil Moon
Old Folks
On A Clear Day
On A Misty Night
On A Slow Boat To China
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Once I Loved
One By One
One Finger Snap
O.P.
Our Delight
Out Of Nowhere
Pannonica
Parisian Thoroughfare
Passion Dance
Passion Flower
Peggy’s Blue Skylight
Pennies From Heaven
Pent Up House
Perhaps
Pinocchio
Poinciana
Polkadots and Moonbeams
Prelude to a Kiss
Pussy Cat Dues
Quicksilver
Rain Waltz
Recorda-Me
Red Cross
Reflections
Reincarnation of a Lovebird
Relaxin At The Camarillo
Rhythm-a-ning
Rockin’In Rhythm
Round Midnight
Ruby My Dear
Sabiá
Salt Peanuts
Sandu
Sans Souci
Satin Doll
Scene Is Clean, The
Scrapple From The Apple
Segment
Serenade To A Soul Sister
Seven Steps to Heaven
Shaw ‘Nuff
Silver’s Serenade
Shiny Stockings
Simone
Sister Sadie
Skylark
So Nice (Summer Samba)
Social Call
Softly As In a Morning Sunrise
Solitude
Some Day My Prince Will Come
Somebody Loves Me
Someone To Watch Over Me
Soon
Sophisticated Lady
Soul Eyes
Soul Station
Soultrane
Speak Low
Speak No Evil
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
Stablemates
Star Crossed Lovers
Star Dust
Star Eyes
Stella By Starlight
Stormy Weather
Sugar
Summertime
Sweet And Lovely
Sweet Georgia Brown
Tea For Two
Tell Me A Bedtime Story
Tempus Fugit
That Old Feeling
There Is No Greater Love
There Will Never Be Another You
They Can’t Take That Away…
This I Dig of You
Tin Tin Deo
Tricrotism
Trinkle-Tinkle
Triste
Turn Out The Stars
Turnaround
26-2
Un Poco Loco
Valse Hot
Walkin’
Waltz For Debbie
Waltz New
Wave
The Way You Look Tonight
West Coast Blues
What Am I Here For
When Sunny Gets Blue
When Will The Blues Leave
When Your Lover Has Gone
Whisper Not
Wildflower
Willow Weep For Me
Will You Still Be Mine
Witch Hunt
Woodyn’ You
Yardbird Suite
Yesterdays
You And The Night and the Music
You Do Something To Me
You Go To My Head
You Know I Care
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
Influences and inspiration
Charlie Parker
Art Tatum
Thelonious Monk
Duke Ellington
Hank Jones
Ahmad Jamal
Bud Powell
Bill Evans
John Coltrane
Erroll Garner
Teddy Wilson
Chet Baker
Miles Davis
Louis Armstrong
Lester Young
Billie Holiday
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Pettiford
Joe Henderson
Wayne Shorter
Horace Silver
Dizzy Gillespie
Clifford Brown
Herbie Hancock
Dexter Gordon
Charles Mingus
Booker Little
Arsenio Rodriguez
Tito Puente
Eddie Palmieri
Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Cal Tjader
Gene Harris
George Cables
Donny Hathaway
Stevie Wonder
and many more great artists...
Setup requirements
We can bring all the necessary instruments, but if you have a piano on site that is a big plus.
For small and medium sized events our sound equipment is sufficient.
For large venues, if you want our sound amplified please provide a suitable PA and a sound technician.
All we require is an electrical outlet, space to set up, shelter from the rain or direct sunlight, and usually a place to put our instrument cases.