Jazz Birds delight audiences as they swoop and swing with their high-flying harmonies and soaring syncopations. The heart of every performance includes a tribute to the Boswell Sisters, three New Orleans-born stars of 1930s radio and recording. Music lovers around the bay area have come to enjoy this charming quartet’s own hot and sweet style of original vocal arrangements of classic songs from the jazz era.

Recent highlight concerts include the Kuumbwa Jazz Center Dinner and Jazz Series, 2006, 2007, 2009; Monterey Jazz Bash By The Bay, 2006 & 2007; Monterey Bay Aquarium Patron's Appreciation Concert, 2005, 2006 & 2008; Museum of Art and History Patron's Appreciation Dinner Ball, 2006 & 2007; Young at Heart Project Benefit Concerts, 2002-2006; Capitola Twilight Concert Series, 2006; and the Monterey Jazz Festival's, Third Annual "Jazz With Steinbeck" at the National Steinbeck Center Museum, 2008, Dominican Hospital Employee Appreciation Dinner at Seascape Resort, 2008. Jazz Birds is delighted to be included with a cut on the Santa Cruz Jazz Society CD, 2008.

Jazz Birds are Gail Cruse on upright bass and vocals, Vicki Neville-Coffis on guitar and vocals and Cher Peterson on drums & vocals. Paul Tarantino fills out the Jazz Birds sound with solos on tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet.