Orlando Combo jazz band

About Orlando Combo jazz band

From our compact acoustic Trio line-up for sophisticated background music through to our Quintet for lively Swing and Soul material, Orlando Combo can provide the genuine live Jazz experience for your venue or next event.

Orlando Combo first formed in 1996 when the members met at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) whilst completing a BA in music performance. Through the experience gained from over 2000 performances the Combo has gone on to become one of Melbourne’s best working bands, offering professionalism, reliability and outstanding musicianship at a reasonable price.

Orlando Combo performs regularly at all major Melbourne events including; a tournament residency at the Australian Tennis Open (5 years), AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup Carnival at Flemington (12 years), Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Commonwealth Games, Australian Grand Prix, Melbourne Food And Wine Festival, Queen Victoria Night Market summer series (4 years), Melbourne Spring Fashion Week , Melbourne International Motor Show, Melbourne International Flower Show, AAMI Classic tennis tournament, Taste Of Melbourne Festival. Public venue residencies in Melbourne include; The Night Cat, Crown Casino, The Botanical Hotel Sth Yarra (8 year residency), Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Portsea Hotel and Half Moon Hotel Brighton. Corporate clients include BHP, Loreal, Ericsson, Ernst and Young, ANZ, CBA, NAB, Pfizer, Accenture, Telstra, GE, IBM, LendLease, PWC, Amcor etc. Private function venues include the Melbourne Club, Crown Casino, Government and Parliament House, The Arts Centre, NGV, Eureka 89 and Grand/Park Hyatt’s. The group has also completed a six month performance contract at the Hotel Sofitel, Vietnam. Wedding performances are also a specialty.

The genre is Jazz but more specifically the sound is a special blend of Swing/Rhythm & Blues/Bossa Nova/Lounge/Motown/Boogaloo and Soul. Inspiration and repertoire comes from the swing of Louis Armstrong, the big band era and the roaring Jazz of the 1920’s/’Great Gatsby’ period, the cool sounds of Miles Davis, George Benson and the ‘Blue Note’ record label era, ‘Great American Songbook’ standards and show tunes of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Michael Buble’, smooth bossa nova of Antonio Carlos Jobim, the old school Rhythm & Blues and retro Rock & Roll party starters of the 1950’s and 60’s by Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Elvis and Chuck Berry and the dance-floor soul and Motown classics and vintage party tunes of Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Al Green and The Beatles etc.