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Sam Graham Trio

Jazz Trio

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Los Angeles, California

Will travel 1500 miles from Los Angeles

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Sam Graham Trio

Jazz Trio

Los Angeles, California

(68 Reviews)

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IN THE NEWS

***NAMED ONE OF LA's TOP FIVE WEDDING BANDS IN 2013 by CBS Los Angeles!***


ABOUT THE BAND

Winners of Gigmasters' Rising Star Award in the Jazz Trio category for three straight years (2010-2012), the Sam Graham Trio was formed in 2002. Since then we have performed hundreds of gigs, from the hilltops of Los Angeles (The Getty Center) to the basements of New York (the Jazz Lounge at CBGB's), from restaurants and bars to open air concerts, private parties, weddings, corporate gatherings, and numerous other events.

While we draw on an extensive repertoire of jazz standards popularized by Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Mose Allison, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and many more, we also explore our roots in pop and rock music with innovative and surprising (and swinging) adaptations of songs by Nirvana, Metallica, the Doors, Tom Petty, even AC/DC, Radiohead and the White Stripes. We can play jobs that call for an all-instrumental song list, all-vocal, or a combination of the two.

All in all, it adds up to a singular style: JAZZ FOR MODERNS.

Our group offers four musicians for the price of three, with bandleader Sam Graham handling both guitar and vocals. Although we usually perform as a three-piece (guitar-vocals, bass, and drums), we can add others musicians and singers as requested.

ALSO: for those with more limited budgets, Sam Graham has also booked gigs as a guitar-bass duo. And if your space or your budget is really small, Sam also performs solo, either unaccompanied or with pre-recorded backing tracks featuring a complete jazz rhythm section.

Please contact Sam for more information about this very viable option.
You can hear audio samples of my solo work at our official website.
  • Anniversaries
  • Bachelorette Parties
  • Banquets
  • Birthday Parties
  • Celebrations
  • Christenings
  • Christmas Parties
  • Church Services
  • Clubs
  • Cocktail Parties
  • Community Events
  • Conventions
  • Corporate Functions
  • Dinner Dances
  • Events
  • Festivals
  • Fund Raisers
  • Funerals
  • Graduation Parties
  • Grand Openings
  • Picnic
  • Private Parties
  • Proms
  • Restaurants
  • Reunions
  • School Assemblies
  • Weddings
  • Wedding Ceremonies
  • Wedding Cocktail Hours
  • Wedding Receptions
  • Your choice -- we'll play it! anyone
  • Holiday music -- we've got it! everyone
  • VOCAL JAZZ such as:
  • Night and Day Frank Sinatra
  • It's All Right With Me Frank Sinatra
  • I've Got You Under My Skin Frank Sinatra
  • Sweet Lorraine Nat King Cole
  • Straighten Up and Fly Right Nat King Cole
  • Azure Te Nat King Cole
  • Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You Nat King Cole
  • Choo Choo Ch-Boogie Louis Jordan
  • I Want You to Be My Baby Louis Jordan
  • Lullaby of Birdland George Shearing
  • Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me Duke Ellington
  • Your Mind is on Vacation Mose Allison
  • Lost Mind Mose Allison
  • If You Live Mose Allison
  • It Ain't Necessarily So from "Porgy and Bess"
  • INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ for example:
  • Milestones Miles Davis
  • So What Miles Davis
  • Joshua Miles Davis
  • Freddie Freeloader Miles Davis
  • Seven Steps to Heaven Miles Davis
  • Road Song Wes Montgomery
  • Angel Wes Montgomery
  • Work Song Cannonball Adderley
  • Jeannine Cannonball Adderley
  • Unit Seven Cannonball Adderley
  • Cute Count Basie
  • Topsy Oscar Peterson
  • Swing 42 Django Reinhardt
  • Nuages Django Reinhardt
  • Killer Joe Quincy Jones
  • Straight, No Chaser/Well You Needn't Thelonious Monk
  • Green Dolphin Street jazz standard
  • Chill Joshua Redman
  • Harlem Nocturne Johnny Otis, many others
  • Stolen Moments Oliver Nelson
  • Loie Kenny Burrell
  • BALLADS for instance:
  • My One and Only Love standard
  • Willow Weep for Me standard
  • My Funny Valentine standard
  • 'Round Midnight standard
  • Moonlight in Vermont standard
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes standard
  • Georgia on My Mind standard
  • JAZZ ROCKS! jazz versions of pop/rock songs
  • Breathe Pink Floyd
  • Albatross (instrumental) Fleetwood Mac
  • Come As You Are Nirvana
  • Lithium Nirvana
  • All Apologies Nirvana
  • Enter Sandman Metallica
  • Seven Nation Army The White Stripes
  • Creep Radiohead
  • Riders on the Storm The Doors
  • Love Me Two Times The Doors
  • Break on Through The Doors
  • Breakdown Tom Petty
  • Up on the Roof The Drifters
  • Consider Me Gone Sting
  • Into the Mystic Van Morrison
  • My Girl The Temptations
  • Spooky Classics IV
  • She's Leaving Home The Beatles
  • Harvest Moon Neil Young
  • LATIN, BRAZIIAN, ETC. including:
  • Poinciana Ahmad Jamal
  • Little Sunflower Freddie Hubbard
  • How Insensitive A.C. Jobim
  • Blue Bossa standard
  • Summer Samba Bebel Gilberto
  • Triste Sinatra, others
  • Acoustic Duo
  • Blues Duo
  • Blues Trio
  • Jazz Duo
  • Jazz Ensemble
  • Jazz Trio
  • Swing Duo
  • Swing Trio
Price Range
$300 - $3000 per event
Members
Sam Graham
guitar, vocal, leader
Jonathan Mohr
bass
or Marc Doten
bass, keyboards, vocal
Ralf Balzer
drums
or Mark San Filippo
drums
or Richard Fultineer
drums, percussion
Influences
All three members bring a wide array of influences (reflected in our repertoire) to our music, having played in pop, rock, and blues bands before joining forces to play jazz.

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Awards

Gold Member
Gold Member
Top Jazz Trio
Top Jazz Trio
Best of 2012
Best of 2012
Top Jazz Trio
Top Jazz Trio
Top Jazz Trio
Top Jazz Trio
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In addition to Los Angeles, Sam Graham Trio will also travel to Alhambra, Bell Gardens, Glendale, Huntington Park, Maywood, Monterey Park, Bell, Hollywood, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Montebello, South Gate, Burbank, Beverly Hills, Inglewood, Rosemead, San Gabriel, San Marino, Culver City, Downey, El Monte, Lynwood, Pico Rivera, Toluca Lake, Universal City, Willowbrook, Compton, La Canada, Montrose, North Hollywood and many other locations in and around the Los Angeles area.

Sam Graham Trio was rated an average of 5.0 stars out of 5 by 68 GigMasters clients.

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