The Cocktail Hour’s drummer and bandleader setting up for an evening’s performance, alongside his octogenarian Uncle, Alexander Skeaping. Alexander owns and runs a London-based keyboard-hire

On a freak day of blistering sunshine in the first week of October, The Cocktail Hour Jazz Band was invited to play for a wedding

The Cocktail Hour Jazz Band, in its Trad Jazz format, featuring the indomitable Richie Howard on clarinet, played for a delightful summer party for the

A repeat client of The Cocktail Hour Jazz Band is Urban Food Fest, a company specializing in outdoors public food festivals and catering services for

The Cocktail Hour  Jazz Band is frequently asked to provide a singer for an event, and we hire-in some of London’s most experienced vocal talent.

Never one to be phased by unusual requests, The Cocktail Hour Jazz Band was hired to provide Balkan-flavoured entertainment for an Oktoberfest-themed corporate party, in

On what must have been the hottest day in living memory, the guitar trio played an informal outdoors party to celebrate the opening of the

The first summer ball since lockdown began was an absolute delight. Set in the grounds of Twyford Abbey in North West London, The Cocktail Hour

This truly impressive room in the heart of Piccadilly, London was once again the setting for a couple of public gigs in December, with Natalia

The inspiration to run a corporate and wedding cocktail jazz band came from having done it all before whilst living in the world’s jazz Mecca:

The Cocktail Hour Jazz Piano Trio played at The Brooklands Hotel, next to Mercedes Benz World in Weybridge, Surrey, as part of their winter Wedding

For over 30 out of the last 48 hours, The Cocktail Hour Vocal & Piano Trio has been driving, and ferrying to a truly memorable

It’s always a fun gig when the bride or groom are in the music industry too.
Last night at an intimate Hotel wedding in Chislehurst, the

The Cocktail Hour took to the stage in the fashionable East London performance venue Shoreditch Town Hall along with the Shirt Tail Stompers for another

The circumstances surrounding us playing for for this 10-year wedding anniversary party are truly bizarre. Travelling from Heathrow Terminal 5 to London in July, I