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The Big Butter Jazz Band
- Culver City, CA
- New Orleans Style Entertainment
- Travels up to 90 miles
- $500-$1500, dep. on # of players, distance, length
Overview
SEPTEMBER 2021 UPDATE: Our crew is fully vaccinated. For now, we are happy to consider outdoor and socially distanced gigs. Fully vaccinated gigs are preferred. We will consider indoor / mixed vaccination status gigs on a case by case basis.
Fun, classy, energetic, and swinging New Orleans Traditional Jazz, focusing on tunes from the 1910's-1930's. Band can be assembled from 3-6 players, depending on size of event and budget. A three piece is one horn, bass/tuba and banjo/guitar, 4-6 musicians adds more horns and provides the fuller sound. Gigs lasting more than 3 hours have a minimum of 4 musicians.
13 Reviews
The Big Butter Jazz Band was a perfect choice to keep our spirits happy and light as we remembered a very good friend who passed away a year ago. We had a tree dedication and 100th birthday party in his honor. This friend loved Dixieland jazz and the Big Butter Jazz Band had children and elders alike, laughing and dancing during our garden party. We are grateful.
Dixieland Band, Jazz Band, New Orleans Style Entertainment
Response from The Big Butter Jazz Band:
Thank you so much for having us, it was an honor to play for the doctor's celebration of life!
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One of the best Dixieland bands I’ve ever heard - and I’m a professional musician. They even took request! Highly recommended. Made a good part, a great party!
Dixieland Band
Response from The Big Butter Jazz Band:
Thank you for having us!
Great music, and it was so easy to coordinate with this band. They made our Mardi Gras party one for the recod books....amazing!
New Orleans Style Entertainment
The Big Butter Jazz Band was so great! Everyone had a great time listening and interacting with the band. We will for sure be hiring them again!
1920s Era Entertainment, 1930s Era Entertainment, 1940s Era Entertainment, Dixieland Band, Jazz Band, Swing Band
We booked the Big Butter Jazz Band for our campus Mardi Gras event, and they delivered a spectacular performance! The music was fantastic, they were super easy to work with both leading up to and on the day of the event, and as an extra bonus, they even came dressed up in Mardi Gras attire! We loved having them perform at our event, and would highly recommend!
New Orleans Style Entertainment
Our community loved them!! Perfect for our Mardi Gras event!
New Orleans Style Entertainment
Response from The Big Butter Jazz Band:
Thank you so much for having us, happy to play for you!
Than you
1920s Era Entertainment, New Orleans Style Entertainment
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The band was a perfect touch to a wonderful evening. Thank you, Conrad, and The Big Butter Jazz Band.
Dixieland Band
The Big Butter Jazz Band performed for our Seafood Boil Event, and they were great! Our guests were very impressed with the music and had a wonderful time listening. Conrad was very prompt and responsive throughout the whole process, from the time we inquired to the day of the event. I appreciated the quick response any time I had questions about details for the event, it saved a lot of stress. The whole band was great! Thank you, Big Butter Jazz Band!
Jazz Band, New Orleans Style Entertainment
Response from The Big Butter Jazz Band:
Thank you for having us, Bernadette! We appreciate it as well as your kind words!!
Thanks for making our event memorable.
New Orleans Style Entertainment
Response from The Big Butter Jazz Band:
Thank you so much for having us!
First Conrad was very easy to plan with. The band was excellent!!!!! They were flexible and everyone loved their music. I would hire them again in a second.
Jazz Band
Easy to deal with, really nice and professional and flexoble. Responded right away to questions and played unbelievably well. Recommend most highly
Jazz Band
Response from The Big Butter Jazz Band:
Thank you, Eve! We had a great time playing for you, thank you for taking care of us!
The Big Butter Jazz Band did a fantastic job for my organization last night. I needed a old fashioned New Orleans Dixieland styled band and I got it. Friendly, easy to work with, professional, excellent musicians, prompt, all the things one needs and wants from a professional band. I couldn't be happier. They helped make the night and set the tone.
Dixieland Band
Booking Info
Price Range: $500-$1500, dep. on # of players, distance, length
Gig Length: 45 - 240 minutes
Languages: English
What to Expect
Big Butter can be configured from a quartet to a six piece, depending on size of venue and budget. We will come up with a configuration of instruments that will suit your needs.
About
The Big Butter Jazz Band is dedicated to playing New Orleans traditional jazz. Back from the times when jazz was still dance music. Whether you call it vintage jazz, early jazz, hot jazz, Dixieland, New Orleans jazz, or trad jazz, it's full of beautiful melodies, infectious energy, and a pulsing rhythm that you can't help but dance to.
The band was founded in late 2013 by drummer Mark San Filippo and guitarist Conrad Cayman. and was named after the 1926 song “Big Butter & Egg Man”. The two had met as auxiliary members of Los Angeles roots orchestra / collective The Dustbowl Revival.
Drawing inspiration from the musicians of the past and the young New Orleans bands on Frenchmen Street, they’ll get your feet shuffling, head bobbing, fingers snapping, and body moving with their hard-driving rhythm section and hot ensemble choruses. Big Butter is delighting LA’s swing dance crowd and many others with their hot speakeasy sounds.
Additional Booking Notes
We can provide a PA with a small additional charge if you do not have one. There should be adequate electrical outlets so that we can power the PA and amps.
Water for each band member should be provided, and parking should be covered as well.
Services Offered
Past Booked Events
| February 10, 2024 • 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Holiday Party |
| March 04, 2023 • 2:30pm - 4:30pm | Funeral/Memorial Service |
| July 01, 2022 • 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Campus Event |
| June 25, 2022 • 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Birthday Party |
| March 20, 2022 • 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Nonprofit Event |
| March 01, 2022 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Cocktail Party |
| March 01, 2022 • 11:00am - 12:00pm | Campus Event |
| March 20, 2021 • 12:00pm - 12:30pm | Dinner Party |
| August 28, 2019 • 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Retirement Community Event |
| June 08, 2019 • 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Birthday Party |
| August 05, 2018 • 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Funeral/Memorial Service |
| June 09, 2018 • 5:00pm - 7:30pm | Cocktail Party |
| May 26, 2018 • 7:00pm - 10:00pm | Birthday Party |
| February 10, 2018 • 6:00pm - 9:00pm | House Party |
| January 27, 2018 • 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Nonprofit Event |
| November 25, 2015 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Rusty's Rhythm Club, Playa Del Rey |
| October 13, 2015 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Joe's Bar & Grill, Burbank |
| September 26, 2015 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Private event |
| September 23, 2015 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Areal Restaurant, Santa Monica |
| September 18, 2015 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Barkley Restaurant & Bar, South Pasadena |
| September 05, 2015 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Camp Hollywood 2015 |
Set List
After You've Gone (1918)
Ain't Misbehavin (1929)
All of Me (1931)
At the Codfish Ball (1936)
Avalon (1920)
Baby Won't You Please Come Home (1921)
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (1937)
Between the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea (1932)
Big Butter & Egg Man (1926)
Bill Bailey (1900)
Black Eyed Blues
Blue Drag (1935)
Blue Skies (1926)
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me (1919)
Bourbon St. Parade (1951)
Bye Bye Blackbird (1926)
Careless Love (1921)
Carelessly (1937)
China Boy (1922)
Come Back, Sweet Papa (1926)
Coquette (1928)
Crazy Rhythm (1928)
Dark Eyes
Darkness on the Delta (1932)
Darktown Strutter's Ball (1917)
Deed I Do (1926)
Dinah (1925)
Do Me a Favor (1934)
Do Something
Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans (1946)
Evenin' (1933)
Everybody Loves My Baby (1924)
Exactly Like You (1930)
Five Foot Two (1925)
Girl of My Dreams (1927)
Hindustan (1918)
Home (1931)
Honeysuckle Rose (1929)
Hummin' to Myself (1932)
I Can't Believe You're In Love With Me (1926)
I Can't Give You Anything But Love (1928)
I Had Someone Else (1924)
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (1919)
I Would Do Most Anything For You (1932)
If I Had You (1928)
I'll Fly Away (1932)
I'll See You In My Dreams (1924)
I'm Confessin That I Love You (1930)
I'm Crazy About My Baby (1931)
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (1935)
It Had To Be You (1924)
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (1936)
It's Only a Paper Moon (1933)
I've Found a New Baby (1926)
I've Got My Fingers Crossed (1935)
Just a Closer Walk With Thee (1944)
Keepin Out of Mischief Now (1929)
Lady Be Good (1924)
Louisiana Fairytale (1935)
Love Me Or Leave Me (1928)
Love Songs of the Nile (1933)
Lulu's Back in Town (1935)
Margie (1920)
Moonglow (1934)
My Blue Heaven (1927)
My Honey's Lovin Arms (1922)
On a Slow Boat to China (1947)
Pennies From Heaven (1936)
Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid (1930)
Precious Lord, Take My Hand (1932)
Raining In My Heart (1958)
Riverboat Shuffle (1925)
Rose Room (1917)
Rosetta (1939)
Sheik of Araby (1921)
Shine (1924)
Shine on Harvest Moon (1908)
Si Tu Vois Ma Mere (1958)
Some of These Days (1910)
Somebody Else is Taking My Place (1937)
Someday Sweetheart (1919)
Squeeze Me (1919)
St. Louis Blues (1914)
Stardust (1929)
Sugar (1926)
Sugar Blues (1923)
Sweet Georgia Brown (1925)
Sweet Lotus Blossom (1934)
Sweet Substitute (1938)
Sweet Sue (1928)
Swing That Music (1936)
That Da Da Strain (1922)
The Song is Ended (1927)
Tiger Rag (1917)
Till We Meet Again (1918)
Tin Roof Blues (1923)
Tonight You Belong to Me (1926)
Undecided (1934)
Until the Real Thing Comes Along (1936)
Wabash Blues (1921)
Washington & Lee Swing (1910)
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (1922)
When I Grow Too Old to Dream (1935)
When My Dreamboat Comes Home (1936)
Whispering (1920)
Who's Sorry Now (1923)
Why (1938)
Without Your Love (1937)
You're Driving Me Crazy (1930)
Influences & Inspiration
THE PAST:
Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives, Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Bob Crosby & The Bobcats, Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Billie Holiday, Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, Firehouse 5+2, Mills Brothers, Eddie Condon, Miff Mole & His Little Molers
THE YOUNG NEW ORLEANS FRENCHMEN ST. BANDS:
Shotgun Jazz Band, New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Tuba Skinny, Orleans 6, Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns, Linnzi Zaorski
OTHERS:
The Reynolds Brothers / Ellis Island Boys, Boilermaker Jazz Band, Dan Levinson's Swing Wing, The Au Brothers Jazz Band, Molly Ryan, Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys
Setup Requirements
Shade if the gig is outdoors, or covering if there is a chance of rain.