Spectrum - General Information

Contact the band for more information - Call Tim at 314-434-7153 or e-mail: tim@spectrumband.net

Spectrum Band performing for a packed Audience at Faust Park in Chesterfield, MO Spectrum Band is a professional 9-piece variety dance band that has been specializing in wedding receptions, corporate parties, and public events in the St. Louis, Missouri area for over 20 years. Our goal has always been to provide fun and professional musical entertainment to diverse audiences by presenting a wide variety of music with a combination of high quality sound, performance, and presentation. A professional engineer is provided for each performance to unobtrusively monitor sound quality via a wireless laptop computer to ensure that the sound and lighting are perfect! Plus, we always maintain a significant liability insurance policy for your protection.

The recognizable signature sound of Spectrum Band comes from the strong vocals, the powerful rhythm section, and the full horn section playing the tightly crafted arrangements performed by the band. The 9-piece instrumentation includes lead male and female vocalists, trumpet, saxophone, trombone, piano, guitar, bass, and drums as well as the engineer to monitor sound. We also use Latin percussion instruments during our performances to augment the originality of the music. This format allows us to “accurately” perform all the songs that keep an audience on the dance floor. In order to accurately perform all those great Big Band, Motown, Swing, and R&B songs you just have to have a full horn section with at least three horns to replicate the sound. Speaking of horns, we always use a "real" horn section and custom music charts on stage, not an add-on group of musicians. It's impossible to correctly play complex horn arrangements on a consistent basis when using a temporary horn section that doesn't use written music. Unfortunately, paying an extra fee to make a small band look larger won't make it sound any larger so we provide a well rehearsed horn section at each performance.

Something that you might be interested in for your event if you're looking for a more elegant experience early in the evening is our duo or trio. We offer a duo or trio during cocktails and/or dinner prior to the full band's performance. In addition to having solo piano, our bass player and sax player have been performing with our pianist and it's an impressive performance by all musicians. They are each very skilled at all styles of jazz material and by adding the bass player, the pianist is really able to stretch out musically since he doesn't have to cover the bass parts with his left hand. The bass player brings his stand-up bass for this portion of the event and it's a very unique visual as well as acoustic effect on stage since most people don't get to see a stand-up bass very often. The sound is incredible and the musicianship is top notch.

Trio and quartet instrumental versions of the band are also available for smaller events. The instrumentation for the three piece group is piano, guitar, and saxophone and the instrumentation for the four piece group is piano, bass, saxophone, and drums. These groups are perfect for providing instrumental background music for any event and you'll be surprised at the diverse musical capabilities of either of these smaller groups. A vocalist can also be added to the smaller groups if desired and standard attire for all formats is formal or we can be as casual as you like. In addition to the experience that only years of performing can provide we possess advanced music theory degrees.

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with a professional sound and light company (Kent Audio & Lighting) to provide the best possible experience for our clients at no extra cost. We are the only band in St. Louis that implements wireless technology to adjust the sound in the room! That means we do not have a large mixer board taking up valuable space on stage with the band, or worse, in front of the band. Our sound engineer uses a wireless laptop computer to remotely adjust his mixer board and keep the sound perfect, i.e., not too loud, without anyone even noticing that he's in the room. However, if you want your dance floor to feel like a nightclub then we have the equipment to give you exactly what you want. We also use a new Aviom in-ear monitoring system so that we don't have floor monitors (speakers) cluttering the stage area. By eliminating this equipment, this not only allows the band to set up in a smaller "footprint" of space but also keeps the overall volume lower since the speakers on the floor have been eliminated. We can also provide: video screens and projectors, large indoor or outdoor staging systems, and additional sound and lighting capabilities for any size venue. We've purchased a brand new sound system (including new main speakers and sub-woofers) and this system can accommodate any facility. You can rest assured that Spectrum does not have one of the musicians attempting to run the sound system from the stage. Having a skilled professional engineer on site at all time provides peace of mind for any situation that might arise during the evening.

We invite you to come to one of our performances and see for yourself what a fantastic time your guests will have at your event. If this is not convenient, you can watch our videos on the web site featuring the band during a live performance. There are also many (many, many many,...) testimonials from past clients included on this web site so that you can review the level of satisfaction typically experienced by individuals that have hired the band. We love to perform and have fun on stage which always has a contagious effect on our audiences. These things and many others are very important factors contributing to the success of your event. We've performed at events as small as 50 guests and as large as 5,000 while opening for ZZ Top during an IBM corporate event at the Scottrade Center so we know how to make your event a tremendous success!

Just a quick note about wedding receptions. This event requires unique skills such as introductions, emceeing, coordinating the throwing of the bouquet, addressing specific wishes of the bride and groom, coordinating with a photographer to satisfy their special needs, etc. Spectrum Band has extensive experience in this area and can make any wedding reception the best it can possibly be. The variety of our comprehensive song list allows us to satisfy any audience. We have an extensive repertoire of songs with lyrics that are appropriate for all of the special dances, e.g., bride-groom first dance, father-daughter dance, etc. You can see a list of these special songs at the bottom of the "Complete Song List" page here on the web site. Spectrum Band wants you to be happy and completely satisfied, just like all of our other clients!