Whether you're looking for background jazz to provide the perfect backdrop for the drinks reception at your wedding or for an evening dinner party or if you're looking for an uptempo swing band to get your guests onto the dance floor – or even something between the two - we can help.

The River Jazz Quartet is led by Jan on tenor sax and includes piano, double bass and drums. The musicians have a wealth of experience with members of the band performing throughout Europe, the USA and Canada and have performed together all over the UK. For background music, we can play as a duo or trio, or if you'd like a bigger sound we can add more musicians - for example, singer, guitarist or trumpet. We bring our own piano and can provide a PA and basic stage lighting if required. We have a repertoire of well over 300 tunes and are always happy to learn something new if there's a song you'd especially like which we don't already know!

Our core repertoire consists of mainstream and swing-era jazz standards, classic Broadway, bossa nova and Latin. We specialise in the songbooks of Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, George Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, Cole Porter and other great songwriters and performers.

We also have a repertoire of classic Bollywood film songs by great singers (Rafi, Lata, Anuradha etc) which we can play instrumentally making us an ideal choice for modern Asian events. We can add tabla to the percussion section for this.

Our saxophone player is also a clarinettist and for Jewish events, we have a repertoire of klezmer tunes – ideal for bar/bat mitzvahs and weddings.

We have played for events as diverse as the topping out celebration for the new Marks and Spencers headquarters in Paddington (hard hats and ladders involved!), a reception for the Prime Minister of Bermuda at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, as well as hundreds of private events from christenings to funerals and everything in between where there is something to celebrate!

Besides playing for some really prestigious clients in large venues we have also squeezed into some very small places – such as a client's living room to play for her husband's surprise birthday dinner with just 6 guests – great fun!