Matt Hill and the Classics Jazz Band from Pittsburgh, PA

We're the band that makes your event the one people talk about for years. A variety band — Jazz, Blues, R&B, and Party Classics — for weddings, corporate parties, festivals, and private celebrations across Pittsburgh, Eastern Ohio, and the Ohio Valley. Your night, your way Start with a jazz trio over cocktails. Bring in the full stage band for the reception. Then surprise everyone when that same band becomes a New Orleans brass band and parades your guests around the room — or from one space to the next. The possibilities are endless, and they're all up to you. You tell us what you're going for, and we build the band to fit: a trio for something intimate, up to an eight-piece brass band for a full-on party. The New Orleans experience This is the one nobody else around here can match. A second line parade with parasols and handkerchiefs that turns your event into Bourbon Street — guests join the parade, phones come out, and people tell the story for years. We also bring this tradition to celebrations of life and jazz funerals, done with the care and respect the moment deserves. What you get with every booking We arrive early and we're set up before your first guest walks in. Professional sound is handled. The band reads the room — dinner volume when people are talking, full energy when it's time to dance — and we keep the night moving so you never have to think about the music. You get to be a guest at your own event. Who you're hiring Bandleader Matt Hill has performed for Fortune 500 companies and shared stages with Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Impressions and Little Anthony. We're a Best of The Bash 2021 winner — and that experience is on stage at every show. It's why so much of our work comes from repeat clients and referrals. Tell us about your event and let's make it happen. (Formatted plain — no bold marks, since The Bash fields usually strip them. The subhead lines still break it up for skimmers.)

• My Little Suede Shoes | Charlie Parker
• All Of Me | Simmons & Marks
• They Can't Take That Away From Me | Gerswin
• My Cherie Amour | Stevie Wonder
• Mo Better Blues | Bill Lee
• Groovin High | Dizzy Gillespie
• Four | Miles Davis
• La Vie En Rose | Edith Piaf
• Blue Bossa | Kenny Durham
• This Masquerade | George Benson
• Jump Jive Wailin | Louie Prima
• Satin Doll | Duke Ellington
• Misty | Earl Garner
• Girl From Ipanema | Antonio Carlos Jobim
• Witchcraft | Frank Sinatra
• Take the A Train | Duke Ellington