The Elaine Dame Quartet And Jazz Events Group

The Elaine Dame Quartet provides classic and swinging jazz, vocal or instrumental, for your wedding, corporate event, or private party in and around Chicago, the midwest and the nation. Due to the superior, professional musicianship and exceptional customer service she provides, Elaine is ranked the #1 jazz singer and bandleader working with gigmasters. Just read the testimonials for yourself from her delighted clients!

More about The Elaine Dame Quartet: With over fifteen years experience in the industry, I create a custom package and performance to fit your budget, using a variety of jazz duos, trios, quartets and quintets, employing only the most talented, most sought after Chicago jazz instrumentalists. And I play the flute at no extra cost to you! I look foward to working with you soon!

My best, Elaine Dame

What the Industry professionals say about The Elaine Dame Quartet:

"Like clarified honey, her voice combines a hearty sweetness and a welcome translucence, and they enjoy a complimentary balance" -NEIL TESSER, AUTHOR, PLAYBOY GUIDE TO JAZZ AND HOST OF NPR'S JAZZ REVIEW, LISTEN HERE

"Blessed with such purity of sound that clarions could take lessons, Dame expresses wide open honesty and her clarity is matched note for note by her imagination" -JAZZ TIMES

"Her joy in the act of singing is obvious throughout the entirety of "Comes Love." Dame combines a freshness of approach with an unaffected fondness for the music she sings. The result is a clear-eyed approach to her material that remains accessible to a broad cross section of listeners, potentially enlarging the audience for jazz" -JAZZ IMPROV MAGAZINE

"Dame has a clear and powerful voice along with the ability to improvise with subltety...an excellent scat singer...beautiful tone" -ALL MUSIC GUIDE

"An artist who truly wants to sing and has dug deep down to do it. Dame's first CD is smooth and stylish,she has an intimate, personal style and every track is note perfect. Interpretation is clearly her forte, she shapes a song like she's been doing it for years, swinging from a whisper to a husky wail with confidence and panache." -JAZZ REVIEW

"Dame has a winning stage presence and a chameleon-like vocal flexiblity"- THE CHICAGO READER

• All of Me
• All of You
• All or Nothing at All
• All the Things You Are
• Almost Like Being in Love
• And So It Goes - Billy Joel
• Angel Eyes
• April in Paris
• As Time Goes By
• At Last
• Be Anything
• Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
• Bewitched
• Big Yellow Taxi - Joni MItchell
• Blame it on My Youth
• Blue Moon
• Blue Skies
• Body and Soul
• Both Sides Now- - Joni Mitchell
• But Not For Me
• Bye, Bye Blackbird
• Call Me
• Can't Help Lovin That Man of Mine
• Cheek to Cheek
• Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
• Come Rain or Come Shine
• Comes Love
• Crazy - Patsy Cline
• Cry Me a River
• Darn That Dream
• Daydream
• Deed I Do
• Detour Ahead
• Dindi
• Down With Love
• Easy Living
• Embraceable You
• Ev'ry Thing I've Got
• Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
• Fever
• Fly Me to the Moon
• From This Moment On
• How About You?
• How High the Moon
• How Insensitive
• How Insensitive
• How Long Has Thing Been Going On?
• Hundreds of Classic Jazz Standards
• I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again - Bonnie Raitt
• I Can't Get Started With You
• I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
• I Concentrate on You
• I Could Write a Book
• I Didn't Know About You
• I Didn't Know What Time it Was
• I Don't Know Enough About You
• I Don't Know Why - Shawn Colvin
• I Get a Kick out of You
• I Get Along Without You Very Well
• I Love Being Here with You
• I Love You For Sentimental Reasons
• I Only Have Eyes For You
• I Remember You
• I Thought About You
• I Want to be Happy
• I Want to be Loved
• I Was Doin' Allright
• I Wish I Knew
• I Wish You Love
• If I Were a Bell
• I'll Remember April
• I'll Take Romance
• Ill Wind
• I'm All Smiles
• I'm Beginning to See the Light
• I'm Old Fashioned
• I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
• I'm Through With Love
• Imagination
• In My Life - Beatles
• Is You is or is You Ain't my Baby?
• Isn't it a Pity?
• Isn't it Romantic?
• It Amazes Me
• It Might as Well be Spring
• It Never Entered My Mind
• It's De Lovely
• It's Love
• It's Only a Paper Moon
• I've Got a Crush on You
• I've Got My Love to Keep me Warm
• I've Got the World on a String
• I've Got you Under My Skin
• Jazz Standards 1920's-1960's
• Just One of Those Things
• Kiss to Build a Dream On
• Lady Bird
• Let's Fall in Love
• Looking for a Boy
• Love is Here to Stay
• Love you Madly
• Lover Man
• Lucky to be Me
• Lullaby of Birdland
• Lush Life
• Makin' Whoopee
• Manhattan
• Mean to Me
• Meditation
• Midnight Sun
• Misty
• Moon River
• Moonlight in Vermont
• My Favorite Things
• My Foolish Heart
• My Funny Valentine
• My One and Only
• My One and Only Love
• My Romance
• Nature Boy
• Never Let Me Go
• Nice Work if You Can Get It
• Night and Day
• No Moon at All
• Oh, Darling - Beatles
• Old Devil Moon
• Only Trust Your Heart
• Over the Rainbow
• Pennies From Heaven
• People Will Say We're in Love
• Perdidio
• Please be Kind
• Polka Dots and Moonbeams
• Prelude to a Kiss
• Route 66
• Save Your Love For Me
• Say it (Over and Over Again)
• Shall We Dance?
• Since I Fell For You
• Skylark
• Something to Live For
• Soon
• Spring Will be a Little Late This Year
• Sugar
• Summer Samba (So Nice)
• Sunday Kind of Love
• Suppertime
• Surrey With The Fringe on Top
• S'Wonderful
• Taking a Chance of Love
• Tea for Two
• Teach Me Tonight
• Tenderly
• That Old Feeling
• That's All
• The Best if Yet to Come
• The Best is Yet to Come
• The Dimming of the Day - Bonnie Raitt
• The Girl from Impanema
• The Glory of Love
• The Look of Love
• The Nearness of You
• The Song is You
• There Will Never Be Another You
• There's Always Tomorrow
• They Can't Take That Away From Me
• This Time the Dream's on Me
• This Will Make You Laugh
• Thou Swell
• Three Little Words
• Ticket To Ride - Beatles
• Till There Was You
• Time after Time
• Twisted - Joni Mitchell
• Until the Real Thing Comes Along
• Waltz for Debbie
• What a Difference a Day Makes
• What a Little Moonlight Can Do
• What'll I Do
• When I Fall in Love
• Willow Weep For Me
• Women Be Wise - Bonnie Raitt
• Yesterdays
• You are the Sunshine of my Life
• You Hit the Spot
• You Leave Me Breathless
• You Stepped Out of a Dream
• You Took Advantage of Me
• You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
• You're Getting to be a Habit With Me
• You're My Thrill
• You're the Top

Anniversaries, Awards Nights, Bachelor Parties, Bachelorette Parties, Banquets, Bar Mitzvahs, Bat Mitzvahs, Birthday Parties, Casinos, Celebrations, Children's Birthday Parties, Christenings, Christmas Parties, Church Services, Clubs, Coffee Shops, Community Events, Conventions, Corporate Functions, Country Clubs, Cruise Ships, Dinner Dances, Festivals, Fraternity Functions, Fund Raisers, Funerals, Graduation Parties, Grand Openings, Hotels, Jingles, Movie Soundtracks, Picnic, Private Parties, Proms, Resorts, Restaurants, Reunions, Showers, Ski Lodges, Sorority Function, Studio Session, Temples, TV Soundtracks, Weddings

• Elaine was a delight to work with. Very talented and a joy to meet. I would highly recommend her! -- Julie O, East Dundee, IL, 9/16/2007
• Elaine Dame and her group create memories. All of our friends and family are still talking about her performance and how much her group truly loves their art and performance. The music was beautiful. The performers professional and enjoyable to work with. We have become true fans and will make arrangements to see her play in public venues in the very near future. Can't praise her and thank her enough! Scott Fech -- Scott F, Valparaiso, IN, 5/26/2007
• Elaine and her jazz group proved to be the perfect fit for my event. They played elegant and lively music and everyone said it was a real highlight. Elaine will spend time with you before your event to make absilutely sure you get what you're looking for and if you have any samples of music you would like then don't be afraid to make a list as a guideline. They will easily add your favorites to their repetoire. They're often playing around Chicago (sometimes at The Drake hotel) so if you get the opportunity to hear them play somewhere I highly recommend it, whether you book them or not you'll have a fun time doing "research", as I did. Good luck. -- Robert G, Chicago, IL, 5/12/2007

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