Orlando Combo jazz band

Orlando Combo provides the genuine live Jazz experience from Melbourne’s best working band

From our compact acoustic Trio line-up for sophisticated, instrumental background music through to our Quintet with vocals for lively Swing Jazz material, Orlando Combo can provide the genuine live Jazz experience for your venue or next event.

Orlando Combo first formed in 2000 when members Adam Orlando and Lucas Evans met at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) whilst completing a BA in music performance. Through the experience gained from over 2500 performances the Combo has gone on to become one of Melbourne’s best working bands, offering professionalism, reliability and outstanding musicianship. By dealing directly with the bands manager (and therefore avoiding the additional 3rd party costs of a booking agency) our clients are able to receive the highest quality entertainment at a reasonable price.

Orlando Combo performs regularly at all major Melbourne events including; a tournament residency at the Australian Tennis Open (6 years), AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup Carnival at Flemington (12 years), Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Commonwealth Games, Australian F1 Grand Prix, Queen Victoria Night Market summer and winter series (10 years), Melbourne Fashion Festival (3 years), Channel 9’s ‘The Block’ (2 years) and the Australian Art Deco festival. Public venue residencies in Melbourne include; The Night Cat, Crown Casino, The Botanical Hotel Sth Yarra (8 year residency), the Athenaeum Theatre, RACV city club resident/house Jazz band (3 years ongoing), Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Portsea Hotel and Half Moon Hotel Brighton and an ongoing residency at Angus & Bon in Greville st Prahran. Corporate clients include Loreal, Ericsson, Ernst & Young, ANZ, CBA, NAB, Accenture, Telstra, GE, IBM, LendLease, Porsche, BMW, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, the AFL, Pfizer, BHP, Greg Norman, Department of Premier and Cabinet, PWC, JP Morgan, Deloitte, Amcor etc. Private function venues include Vue De Monde, the Melbourne Club, Crown Casino, Government and Parliament House, The Arts Centre, NGV, Eureka 89 and Grand/Park Hyatt’s. The group has also completed a six month performance contract at the Hotel Sofitel, Vietnam. Wedding performances are also a specialty.

The genre is Jazz but more specifically the sound is a special blend of Swing/Rhythm & Blues/Bossa Nova/Lounge/Motown/Boogaloo and New Orleans jazz. Inspiration and repertoire comes from the swing of Louis Armstrong, the big band era and the Jazz of the roaring 1920’s/’Great Gatsby’ period, the cool sounds of Miles Davis, Jimmy Smith and the ‘Blue Note’ record label era, ‘Great American Songbook’ standards and show tunes of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, smooth bossa nova of Antonio Carlos Jobim, the old school Rhythm & Blues of Ray Charles and Louis Jordan, New Orleans style brass band roving street music and the dance-floor Soul and Motown classics of Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke and Al Green etc.