Swingbone North Jazz Band from Traverse City, MI

Swingbone North is Northern Michigan's first choice for classy, top-shelf jazz entertainment. Whether you are looking for subtle background music or swinging, up-beat jazz for a cocktail hour, a wedding reception or a corporate party, Swingbone North delivers the finest vocal and instrumental jazz, swing and cool blues grooves that provide the perfect ambiance for a signature event. Looking for well-recognized vocals of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Chet Baker or Van Morrison? We have that covered. Want a smooth delivery of songs by composers of the Great American Songbook like George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, and Richard Rodgers? That's covered, too. Love listening to instrumentals of songs by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, J.J. Johnson, Benny Golson and others? It's all in the over 400 songs that Swingbone North has in its repertoire. (Which makes handling requests what they do best!) Led by Cleveland vocalist/trombonist Jim Grove (and an offshoot of Jim's Swingbone Jazz Band in Cleveland, Ohio*), Swingbone North is based in Traverse City, MI and Jim utilizes professional, local musicians at the top of their art. Whether performing as a trio, a quartet or the full quintet, the band covers a lot of musical landscape -- and the group can expanded to a sextet as desired. Swingbone North has performed in dozens of popular venues in the greater Traverse City area including the Alluvion, the Uncaged Festival in Northport, the Charlevoix Jazz Festival (Live on the Lake), Chateau Grand Traverse, Bonobo Winery, the AuSable Performing Arts Center (Artisan Village), Shady Lane Cellars, Dune Bird, French Valley, Mari Vineyards and Bel Lago Vineyards and Winery. The band's reviews speak volumes. Let Swingbone North show you why they are swinging Northern Michigan!! Jim looks forward to discussing your event with you. *See linked video.