The Elaine Dame Chicago Jazz Band Jazz Band from Chicago, IL

The Elaine Dame Trio provides classic and swinging jazz, vocal or instrumental, for your wedding, corporate event, or private party in and around Chicago, the midwest and the nation. With over fifteen years experience in the industry, I will create a custom package and performance to fit your budget, using a variety of jazz duos, trios, quartets and quintets, employing only the most talented, most sought after Chicago jazz instrumentalists. In addition, I will provide a complimentary consultation to address your every need and concern. I look forward to working with you soon... My best, Elaine Dame What the Industry professionals say about The Elaine Dame Trio: "Like clarified honey, her voice combines a hearty sweetness and a welcome translucence, and they enjoy a complimentary balance" -NEIL TESSER, AUTHOR, PLAYBOY GUIDE TO JAZZ AND HOST OF NPR'S JAZZ REVIEW, LISTEN HERE "Dame continues to be a gem in the city's vocal jazz scene." -TIME OUT CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 2009 "Blessed with such purity of sound that clarions could take lessons, Dame expresses wide open honesty and her clarity is matched note for note by her imagination" -JAZZ TIMES "Her joy in the act of singing is obvious throughout the entirety of "Comes Love." Dame combines a freshness of approach with an unaffected fondness for the music she sings. The result is a clear-eyed approach to her material that remains accessible to a broad cross section of listeners, potentially enlarging the audience for jazz" -JAZZ IMPROV MAGAZINE "Dame has a clear and powerful voice along with the ability to improvise with subltety...an excellent scat singer...beautiful tone" -ALL MUSIC GUIDE "An artist who truly wants to sing and has dug deep down to do it. Dame's first CD is smooth and stylish,she has an intimate, personal style and every track is note perfect. Interpretation is clearly her forte, she shapes a song like she's been doing it for years, swinging from a whisper to a husky wail with confidence and panache." -JAZZ REVIEW "Dame has a winning stage presence and a chameleon-like vocal flexiblity"- THE CHICAGO READER