Under the Stars

About Under the Stars

Under the Stars – An Exquisite Jazz Ensemble from Bologna, Italy

Presenting the distinguished artistry of Under the Stars. Based in the cultural epicenter of Bologna, this refined jazz ensemble curates impeccably sophisticated musical experiences for weddings, exclusive private events, and the most prestigious venues throughout Italy.

Helmed by a supremely accomplished jazz guitarist, the group collaborates with a hand-selected roster of Europe's finest musicians, ensuring every performance is a masterpiece of bespoke artistry. Their signature sound—a warm, elegantly textured tapestry—infuses every occasion with unparalleled grace and character.

The foundational formation is an intimate duo, typically featuring guitar and saxophone. For those seeking a more opulent acoustic landscape, the ensemble can be meticulously expanded into a trio, a refined quartet, or a full quintet. Depending on the client's vision, additional instruments such as double bass, keyboards, drums, or vocals can be seamlessly incorporated to create the perfect ambiance.

Performances are thoughtfully curated into two sets of approximately fifty minutes, though the ensemble is delighted to tailor the timing to the flow of your celebration. Between sets, a bespoke ambient playlist ensures the atmosphere remains impeccably uninterrupted. Under the Stars arrives completely self-contained with their own amplification and instruments, adapting gracefully to any venue—though lighting is not provided. Setup and soundcheck require approximately one to two hours, depending on the configuration, and the ensemble is always amenable to the spatial nuances of the location.

Whether performing within the refined walls of a historic palazzo or amidst the natural splendor of a garden, terrace, beach, or barn, the group delivers a flawless performance, wholly attuned to the setting. With ample notice, they are also pleased to master a special request—such as a first dance—adding a deeply personal and unforgettable touch to your event.

For those who demand live jazz that is both polished and profoundly personal, Under the Stars presents a superlative choice, perfectly suited to the most distinguished celebrations.

Bespoke Line-Up Configurations:

• Intimate Duo
• Refined Trio
• Opulent Quartet
• Full Quintet

Set List

🎷 Jazz Standards

A Child Is Born – Thad Jones

A Night In Tunisia – Dizzy Gillespie

Afro Blue – Mongo Santamaría

Alice In Wonderland

All Blues – Miles Davis

All Of Me – Billie Holiday

All The Things You Are

Along Came Betty – Benny Golson

Anthropology – Charlie Parker

April In Paris

Au Privave – Charlie Parker

Autumn In New York

Autumn Leaves – George Prevert

Bags' Groove – Milt Jackson

Basin Street Blues – Spencer Williams

Beautiful Love

Bemsha Swing – Thelonious Monk

Billie’s Bounce – Charlie Parker

Black Orpheus – Luiz Bonfá

Blue Bossa – Kenny Dorham

Blue In Green – Miles Davis

Blue Monk – Thelonious Monk

Bluesette – Toots Thielemans

Body and Soul – John Coltrane

But Not For Me – George Gershwin

Bye Bye Blackbird

Cheek to Cheek – Irving Berlin

Chelsea Bridge

Cherokee – Ray Noble

Confirmation – Charlie Parker

Corcovado – Antonio Carlos Jobim

Darn That Dream

Days of Wine and Roses – Henry Mancini

Desafinado – Antonio Carlos Jobim

Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans – Louis Armstrong

Don’t Explain – Billie Holiday

Dream a Little Dream of Me

Easy Living

Embraceable You – George Gershwin

Equinox – John Coltrane

Everything Happens to Me

Fly Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra

Footprints – Wayne Shorter

Four – Miles Davis

Gentle Rain

Georgia on My Mind – Ray Charles

Girl from Ipanema – Antonio Carlos Jobim

God Bless the Child – Billie Holiday

Good Morning Heartache

Harlem Nocturne – Duke Ellington

Have You Met Miss Jones? – Rodgers & Hart

Here's That Rainy Day

How High The Moon – Chet Baker

How Insensitive – Antonio Carlos Jobim

I Can’t Get Started

I Cover the Waterfront

I Fall In Love Too Easily

I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good – Duke Ellington

I Just Want to Make Love to You – Etta James

I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart

I Loves You Porgy

I Only Have Eyes for You

I Remember Clifford – Benny Golson

I Should Care

I Thought About You

I’ll Be Around

I’ll Remember April

I'm Old Fashioned

If I Should Lose You

Impressions – John Coltrane

In a Sentimental Mood – Duke Ellington

In Your Own Sweet Way

Infant Eyes – Wayne Shorter

Invitation

It Could Happen to You

It Don’t Mean a Thing – Duke Ellington

It Had to Be You – Harry Connick Jr.

Joy Spring – Clifford Brown

Just Friends

Lady Bird – Tadd Dameron

Like Someone in Love

Lullaby of Birdland

Lush Life – Billy Strayhorn

Mas Que Nada – Sergio Mendes

Meditation – Antonio Carlos Jobim

Misty – Erroll Garner

Moanin’ – Bobby Timmons

Moment’s Notice – John Coltrane

Monk’s Mood – Thelonious Monk

My Funny Valentine – Chet Baker

My One and Only Love

My Romance

Naima – John Coltrane

Nature Boy

Nica’s Dream – Horace Silver

Night and Day – Frank Sinatra

O Barquinho – João Gilberto

Old Devil Moon

One Note Samba – Antonio Carlos Jobim

Ornithology – Charlie Parker

Out of Nowhere – Stan Getz

Over the Rainbow – Kenny G

Peace – Horace Silver

Polkadots and Moonbeams

Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars – Antonio Carlos Jobim

Recorda Me – Joe Henderson

Round Midnight – Thelonious Monk

Satin Doll – Duke Ellington

Scrapple from the Apple – Charlie Parker

Serenity – Joe Henderson

She – Elvis Costello

Skylark

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – Glenn Miller

So What – Miles Davis

Solar – Miles Davis

Someday My Prince Will Come

Song for My Father – Horace Silver

Sophisticated Lady – Duke Ellington

St. Thomas – Sonny Rollins

Star Dust – Charlie Chaplin

Stella by Starlight – Miles Davis

Stolen Moments – Oliver Nelson

Straight No Chaser – Thelonious Monk

Street Life – The Crusaders

Summertime – George Gershwin

Sweet Georgia Brown

Take Five – Dave Brubeck

Take the A Train – Duke Ellington

Tenderly – Bill Evans

That’s What Friends Are For – Burt Bacharach

The Days of Wine and Roses – Henry Mancini

The Girl from Ipanema – Antonio Carlos Jobim

The Shadow of Your Smile – Tony Bennett

The Summer Wind – Frank Sinatra

There Is No Greater Love

These Foolish Things

Things Ain’t What They Used to Be – Mercer Ellington

This Is What You Are – Mario Biondi

This Masquerade – George Benson

Tune Up – Miles Davis

Unforgettable – Nat King Cole

Wave – Antonio Carlos Jobim

What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

When I Fall in Love – Nat King Cole

When Sunny Gets Blue

Whisper Not – Benny Golson

You Are the Sunshine of My Life – Stevie Wonder

You Don’t Know What Love Is – George Benson

You Make Me Feel So Young – Frank Sinatra

You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To

🇮🇹 Italian Songs

A Te – Jovanotti

Albachiara – Vasco Rossi

Ancora Tu – Lucio Battisti

Arrivederci Roma – Renato Rascel

Baciami Piccina – Alberto Rabagliati

Bella Ciao – Traditional

Buonasera Signorina – Fred Buscaglione

Caruso – Lucio Dalla

Che Cosa C’è – Gino Paoli

Che Confusione – Moreno

Che Sará – José Feliciano / Ricchi e Poveri

Come Saprei – Giorgia

Con Te Partirò – Andrea Bocelli

Don Raffaè – Fabrizio De André

E La Luna Bussò – Loredana Bertè

Estate – Bruno Martino

Fatti Mandare Dalla Mamma – Gianni Morandi

Felicità – Albano & Romina Power

Gente di Mare – Umberto Tozzi & Raf

Gloria – Umberto Tozzi

Guarda Che Luna – Fred Buscaglione

Il Cielo In Una Stanza – Gino Paoli

Il Mondo – Jimmy Fontana

Io Che Amo Solo Te – Sergio Endrigo

La Bambola – Patty Pravo

La Canzone del Sole – Lucio Battisti

La Cura – Franco Battiato

La Solitudine – Laura Pausini

L’Italiano – Toto Cutugno

Margherita – Riccardo Cocciante

Mambo Italiano – Renato Carosone

Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) – Domenico Modugno

Non Dimenticar – Nat King Cole

O Sole Mio – Luciano Pavarotti / Traditional

Parla Più Piano (Love Theme from The Godfather) – Nino Rota

Piccolissima Serenata – Claudio Villa

Quando Quando Quando – Tony Renis

Sapore di Sale – Gino Paoli

Senza Fine – Gino Paoli

Se Telefonando – Mina

Ti Amo – Umberto Tozzi

Tu Vuo’ Fa’ L’Americano – Renato Carosone

Un’Estate Italiana – Edoardo Bennato & Gianna Nannini

Un’Avventura – Lucio Battisti

Vivo Per Lei – Andrea Bocelli & Giorgia

🌍 International Songs

A Foggy Day – George Gershwin

A Sky Full of Stars – Coldplay

Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers

After You've Gone – Turner Layton

All of Me – Charlie Parker

Angelina/Zooma Zooma – Louis Prima

As – Stevie Wonder

As Time Goes By – Herman Hupfeld

Autumn Leaves – George Prevert

Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty

Basin Street Blues – Spencer Williams

Besame Mucho – Julio Iglesias

Black Orpheus – Luiz Bonfá

Blue Bossa – Kenny Dorham

Blue Moon – Frank Sinatra

Body and Soul – John Coltrane

Can't Take My Eyes Off You – Bob Crewe

Change the World – Eric Clapton

Cheek to Cheek – Irving Berlin

Close to You – Burt Bacharach

Corcovado – Antonio Carlos Jobim

Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen

Desafinado – Antonio Carlos Jobim

Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans – Louis Armstrong

Don't Worry Be Happy – Bobby McFerrin

Englishman in New York – Sting

Falling in Love With You – Elvis Presley

Fly Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra

Georgia on My Mind – Ray Charles

Give Me the Night – George Benson

Here, There and Everywhere – The Beatles

Home – Michael Bublé

How High the Moon – Chet Baker

How Insensitive – Antonio Carlos Jobim

I Believe I Can Fly – R. Kelly

I Get a Kick Out of You – Frank Sinatra

I Just Want to Make Love to You – Etta James

I've Got You Under My Skin – Frank Sinatra

It Had to Be You – Harry Connick Jr.

It's Now or Never – Elvis Presley

Just a Gigolo – Louis Prima

Just the Two of Us – Will Smith

Just the Way You Are – Billy Joel

L.O.V.E. – Nat King Cole

La Belle Dame Sans Regret – Sting

Lately – Stevie Wonder

Mas Que Nada – Sergio Mendes

Minnie the Moocher – Cab Calloway

Misty – Erroll Garner

Moanin' – Charles Mingus

Moondance – Michael Bublé

More – Riz Ortolani

My Funny Valentine – Charlie Parker

My Girl – The Temptations

My Way – Frank Sinatra

Night and Day – Frank Sinatra

Nica’s Dream – Horace Silver

One Note Samba – Antonio Carlos Jobim

On Broadway – George Benson

Out of Nowhere – Stan Getz

Over the Rainbow – Kenny G

Overjoyed – Stevie Wonder

Peace – Horace Silver

Quizás, Quizás, Quizás – Nat King Cole

Satin Doll – Duke Ellington

Serenity – Joe Henderson

She – Elvis Costello

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – The Platters

Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise – Sigmund Romberg

Sophisticated Lady – Duke Ellington

Stella by Starlight – Miles Davis

Stolen Moments – Oliver Nelson

Stranger in the Night – Frank Sinatra

Street Life – The Crusaders

Summertime – George Gershwin

Sunny – Marvin Gaye

Sway – Michael Bublé

Take the A Train – Duke Ellington

Tenderly – Bill Evans

That's What Friends Are For – Burt Bacharach

The Days of Wine and Roses – Henry Mancini

The Girl from Ipanema – Antonio Carlos Jobim

The Shadow of Your Smile – Tony Bennett

The Summer Wind – Frank Sinatra

The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra

Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran

This Is What You Are – Mario Biondi

This Masquerade – George Benson

Unchained Melody – The Platters

Wanna Be Americano – Lou Bega

Wave – Antonio Carlos Jobim

What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

When I Fall in Love – Nat King Cole

You Are the Sunshine of My Life – Stevie Wonder

You Don’t Know What Love Is – George Benson

You Make Me Feel So Young – Frank Sinatra