Orlando Combo jazz band Melbourne, weddings/corporate functions (Trio+sax/duo/’outdoor/acoustic’)

Please go straight to www.orlandocombo.com.au for our client and performance history, references and to see/hear us ‘in action’. Breif Bio Orlando Combo gives you the genuine Jazz experience from Melbourne’s best working band. The group believes a good band can add atmosphere to an event without drawing the focus away from proceedings but can also provide entertainment when required. Corporate clients include BHP, L’Oreal, Ericsson, Ernst and Young, IBM, GE, Pfizer, Accenture and Telstra. In 2001 the group completed a six month contract at the Hotel Sofitel, Vietnam. Wedding performances are also a specialty. …..”We strongly recommend the Orlando Combo.” Yours sincerely, Jacques Serpollier General Manager Hotel Sofitel Saigon Vietnam The genre is Jazz but more specifically the sound is a blend of swing/blues/bossa nova and funk. Inspiration and repertoire comes from the swing of Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson, standards and show tunes of Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble, smooth and subtle bossa nova of Stan Getz and Antonio Carlos Jobim and the soul, R+B and pop of George Benson, Ray Charles and Van Morrison. The instrumental Trio is most appropriate for sophisticated and atmospheric background music but if dancing is anticipated we recommend adding our vocalist for later in the evening to get everyone moving!

Mac Gayden – Everlasting Love, from 1976’s Skyboat. Written and produced by Mac Gayden and Buzz Cason Guitar, lead vocals: Mac Gayden Backing vocals: Buzz Cason, Robert Knight Bass: Tommy Cogbill Drums: Jerry Carrigan Percussion: Farrell Morris Piano: Bobby Ogdin Alto saxophone: Mike Miller From estivator.blogspot.com: “My research about the song [Everlasting Love] and those involved with it turns up intriguing threads of all kinds. And this is just some of them: It was written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden. Cason founded a group called the Casuals which is generally thought to be Nashville’s first rock and roll band. They were pegged by Brenda Lee’s management as of high enough quality to become her backing band. Gayden was a talented guitarist and sought-after studio musician who played on Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde sessions. Cason had a new record label in Nashville, Rising Son. Gayden discovered college student Robert Knight singing with his then-band, the Fairlanes; putting Knight under contract as a solo artist, he had an immediate hit for the new label [in autumn of 1967] with Everlasting Love, which Gayden had been tinkering around with for years but never completed. [The Love Affair’s cover was released just a couple of months later, in December 1967.] Let’s see, can we find a Temptations connection to the song? Yes! After David Ruffin departed the group in 1968, he embarked on a solo career, and he recorded Everlasting Love, putting his inimitable stamp on it …
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