Description of Paul Vesco Signature Bands and Orchestras

Paul Vesco Orchestra

The Paul Vesco Orchestra is a polished and versatile big band who can start the evening with sophisticated sounds from the days of the Rat Pack complete with vocalists and a great horn section. Their repertoire goes back as far as the 1920s with fun classics from Louis Jordan and goes all the way to the music of today, including great Latin sounds, both traditional and modern.

Paul Vesco Band

The Paul Vesco Band is costumed in dressy stagewear and is utilized when the atmosphere is more of a high-energy party atmosphere. The higher-energy dance music can range from the 1950s to the sounds of today with a good reserve of Latin music. This band will make your guests dance!

Johnny Cool and the Mobster Swing Band

This band was formed (using the great talent from the Paul Vesco Band) eleven years ago in the "retro-swing craze" days. This is a great look for a 1920s thru 1940s themed party, or for a more creative theme like "Cigars and Martinis", "Great Gatsby" or a "Speakeasy" theme. Besides doing any and all of the material of the Paul Vesco Orchestra or Band above, it can do loads of "retro-swing" material from bands like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Brian Setzer, LaVay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers and Louis Jordan. This band was featured in many of the retro swing clubs including the Roxy, Rat Packs, City Jazz (Universal Studios Orlando) and the Atlantic Dance Hall (Disney, Orlando). It can do any combination of material from any of the groups, or it can do retro-swing material and big band material all night.

Click here to see a video file of Johnny Cool performing at City Jazz in Universal Studios Orlando,
The House of Blues and The Atlantic Dance Hall, both in Walt Disney World.

All Three Bands can.....

do whatever material you want. For example the band can appear in tuxedos, but do high-energy all night. Or, you might have the band start with lighter, smoother big band music for the beginning of the night and then switch to high energy party dance music for the remainder of the evening.

The band can appear as small as 6-pieces and as large as your vision and budget can take you -- we were 34-pieces for the opening of the Donald Trump Palace Ballroom (Atlantic City), 41-pieces to back up Ray Charles for the opening of the Orlando Convention and Vistors Center and 60-pieces to back Valentino DiLorenzo for an Italian tenor concert at Harris College in Detroit.

Note that there are limitations regarding size. These are spelled out in the detailed pricing list noted below. For example, we will not do a continuous 3-hour, high-energy job with only 6 members.

Video Files

This is the band in late 2007 at a corporate show featuring them in "party mode".

Brick House	How Sweet It Is	Honey Pie
American Trilogy	Mambo #5	Brown-Eyed Girl
Can't Help Myself	Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens	God Bless the USA
Brick House Guitar Solo	I Will Survive	Pink Cadillac

Audio Files

These are audio files recorded in late 2007 with the 12-piece band.

Big Band	Disco	Classic Dance
The Best is Yet to Come	Copacabana	Respect
Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens		How Sweet It Is
Where or When	Latin
Where or When - horn soli	Sabor a Mi

Rider (additional requirements)

Very simple:
1) You (or your venue) provide staging -- this is usually provided free from your venue. Our suggested stage is built from regular hotel stage risers creatively placed at different heights and positions. This will give a much more "produced look" to your event than a flat rectangular stage. See below for diagrams.

2) You provide electrical. This will vary, depending on what light and sound package we are bringing and can range from TWO 20-amp circuits on up to TEN 20-amp circuits, with FOUR to SIX circuits being the most typical. Ask for exact specifications on your specific event.

3) You provide a meal for the band. Please, no box lunches. Our band arrives early to make sure we are ready to go long before your event begins and it can make for a long day. You have several options: You can provide a hot meal, a hot buffett, vouchers for a coffee shop, a room service menu, or you can do a buyout at $25/person and we will buy our own food. When ordering the food or calculating the buyout option, it will be the number of performers PLUS up to two technicians (check with me for exact number at contract signing).

4) You pay for any parking fees at the venue for band vehicles, including a van and 12' trailer. This is not common, but it does occasionally come up.