The Brotherhood Jazz Trio

The trio came out of a practical problem. Couples kept asking what we could do for the bit of the day before the dancing - drinks reception, wedding breakfast, the hour where a full band with drums would flatten the conversation.

The answer was to strip back to guitar, bass and drums - brushes or sticks depending on the room - and rework songs people already know as jazz. Not standards. The trick that makes it land is taking something recognisable and putting it somewhere unexpected, so guests half-hear it, work out what it is, and enjoy the moment of recognition.

These four videos are from 2014 and they remain, by a wide margin, the most-watched things on our channel. The arrangement of My Favourite Things alone has been watched close to a hundred thousand times, mostly by people who are not booking a band at all. That is fine by us.

The trio works as a standalone booking or as the early part of a day that ends with the full band.