Jazz Mirage

Jazz Mirage plays live jazz for weddings, corporate events, winery dinners and private parties across Napa, Sonoma and Marin. You'll hear standards, bossa nova, gypsy swing, Motown and yacht rock, plus our own jazz arrangements of songs your guests already know, from Sinatra and the Beatles to Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga, and jazz takes on Bollywood favorites. Lineups run from an instrumental trio to a full band with a featured vocalist. We bring our own sound system and set up before guests arrive. During dinner we keep the volume where people can talk, and we turn it up later if the room wants to dance. We show up in suits and fedoras with a chart for every tune. Have a song that means something to you? With enough notice we'll learn it, and if it needs a brand-new arrangement we'll write one for a small fee. We've arranged custom first dances, including a La Vie en Rose played live under Louis Armstrong's original vocal. Our regular players include Jerome Fleg, director of the SRJC Jazz and Symphonic Big Bands; guitarist Gino Raugi, who teaches at SRJC; veteran drummer Kevin Dillon; and vocalist Samantha Woo, who trained in musical theater at Pace University in New York. You can hear us every Thursday from 5:45 to 8:45 at Goodnight's Prime Steak + Spirits in Healdsburg, and we play regular concerts at Varenna at Fountaingrove. Corporate clients have included SF Exotic Cars in Napa, Lloyd's of London at Benziger Winery, Quattrocchi Kwok Architects at the Charles M. Schulz Museum, and holiday parties for Redwood Family Dermatology. We've also played the Seghesio chef dinner series, Beringer's summer series, Silver Oak and Twomey, and weddings at Triple S Ranch and Madrona Manor.