If you are looking for a Dixieland Jazz Funeral band for hire for funerals in Hampshire then you've come to the right place.

This live band plays jazz funeral music at dixieland funerals in Hampshire.

This funeral band in Hampshire can play for any part of a funeral:-

Leading the Cortege from the house with jazz tunes.
Playing for the procession to arrive at church or crematorium.
Playing requested music during the funeral service.
Leading the coffin from the church to the grave.
Playing in the cemetery to lead the coffin to the grave.
Playing music by the grave.
Playing live music at the wake to help break the ice.
Playing music to celebrate the deceased life.

Hampshire Jazz Funeral Band
Photo taken by Martin Bennett 5 June 2014

This band can play live music for funerals to either, celebrate the life of your loved one or, to mark their passing with the music they enjoyed.

In New Orleans the jazz bands (or brass bands) are led by a Parade Marshal and play dirges on the way to the committal. On the way back they play cheerful uptempo music.

For funerals in the UK, most people ask the jazz band for happy music going to the interment and the procession is usually led by the Funeral Director

The usual tunes played are :-

Flee As A Bird (the classic funeral dirge)
Down By The Riverside
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Just A Little While To Stay Here
Lily Of The Valley
The Old Rugged Cross
Over In The Glory Land
When You Walk Thro’ The Streets Of The City
When The Saints Go Marching In

These may be played as a traditional funeral dirge or, as up tempo happy music.

Funeral procession courtesy of Mr J Baxter

If you want a special tune if it is not already in their repertoire, this band will learn it for you.

This jazz band has played at many Hampshire funerals and understand that most funerals happen at short notice.

Contact this Hampshire jazz band for funerals

If you're booking a Hampshire Jazz Funeral Band

Acoustic Jass are happy to deal with either family members or the funeral director. Their experience enables this jazz band to offer suggestions that makes their part of the funeral run smoothly, you don't get a rehursal.

A Jazz Funeral, the funeral music is "The Old Rugged Cross"

Many people have been inspired to have a jazz funeral after watching the James Bond film "Live and Let Die" where a funeral procession appears with the parade band playing the spiritual "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" as a dirge, there is a fatal stabbing and they carried the body off to "Joe Avery's Piece" an up tempo parade tune.

Acoustic Jass has been asked to recreate this "but without the stabbing".

Acoustic Jass leads the procession to the Cemetery in Portsmouth

Jazz Funeral the tune is "Lily of The Valley"
Courtesy of Mrs A Youé & John C Blanchard FCA

New Orleans Jazz Funeral at Highcliffe
Photograph Courtesy Bournemouth Daily Echo.

Where this New Orleans Jazz Band has played at in Hampshire:-

Funeral Procession, Aldershot Crematorium, Aldershot
Wake, Wykeham Club, Andover
Procession, St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Basingstoke
Funeral Service, Basingstoke Crematorium, Hampshire
Funeral, Burley Church, Church Lane, Burley,
Funeral Procession to St Boniface Church, Chandlers Ford, Eastleigh
Funeral Procession, St Mary's Church, Eastleigh
Funeral Procession, Crofton Cemetry, Stubbington
Wake, Queens Club, Queens Road, Gosport
Funeral Procession, Natural Burial Ground, Warblington, Havant
Funeral, The Oaks Havant Crematorium, Havant
Funeral Procession, Stanley Road to Church, Highcliff
Funeral procession, Pier to St Johns Church, Hythe
Funerals, Portchester Crematorium
Wake, Queens Hotel on Southsea
Funeral , Kingston Cemetry, Copnor, Portsmouth
Funeral procession and wake, from St Josephs Church to hall in Tangier Road, Copnor, Portsmouth
Funeral Procession, Elm Grove, Southsea, Hampshire
Casting Ashes and Wake, Red Lion, Totton, Southampton
Funeral Procession, Maybush, Southampton
Funeral Procession, Eling Church, Eling, Southampton
Funeral Procession, Wessex Vale Crematorium, Southampton
Funeral Procession, Holy Saviour Church, Bitterne
then West End Cemetry, Southampton
Funeral Processions, Southampton Crematorium
Wake, Pirrie Park Bowling Club, Southampton
Wake, Netley Abbey, Southampton
Wake, BAT Sports club, Totton, Southampton
Wake, Southwick Village Hall, Southwick
Funeral, St Peters Church, Titchfield
Portchester Crematorium then wake at Waterlooville
Funeral Church of St Cross
and Wake Sleepers Hill, Winchester
Wake, Abbotts Road, Winchester

Places this bands played live music:-

Hampshire (Hants) Berkshire Buckinghamshire Dorset East Sussex Gloucestershire Oxfordshire Somerset Surrey West Sussex Wiltshire

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18 Porteous Crescent
Chandlers Ford
Eastleigh
Hampshire
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