Bad News Jazz & Blues Orchestra

Jeff Gavioli and his Bad News Jazz & Blues Orchestra are known as 'The Busiest Swing Band in Western MA' with 20 to 30 annual performances since 2021. Based in Northampton, MA, the BNJBO was voted Winner of 'BEST LIVE JAZZ' in the Hampshire Gazette's 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021 Reader's Polls after being a 2020 Finalist.

Bad News Jazz is a 19-piece jazz band that carries on the excitement of the big band era with a calculated mix of uplifting swing music of the 1930s & 40s with contemporary rock & funk music of the last 50 years. Audience members may hear the famous Sing, Sing, Sing drum solo of Gene Krupa, followed by a driving arrangement of Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen. They may kick-line to Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York and then immediately get funky with Bruno Mars’ Uptown Funk, and so on. In existence since 2012, the BNJBO features up to 14 horns in an incredibly tight ensemble with outstanding jazz soloists in every section of the band. No other group brings more excitement and variety to one single performance than Bad News Jazz!