Its first five years were spent percolating at their famed weekly “Jazz Mafia Tuesdays” residency in San Francisco. Each week the many composers in the band would bring in new material striking a fresh balance between pushing musical boundaries and finely crafted melodic moments.

Based on a mix of Big Band Jazz Orchestra instrumentation and futuristic sounds, this group often collaborates with rap artists and vocalists to create custom productions, film scores, and performances on festival stages all over North America.

As the house band for Treat Social Club from 2012-2015, the group created and performed collaborative original pieces for aerial, theatre, dance, comedy, body percussion, and more. Productions and compositions are always unique, and the creative ingenuity behind each project is cutting edge and multi-sensory. From James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Prince and Michael Jackson tributes, to violinists flying through the sky, to a full gospel choir singing while a freestyle MC throws down, the artistic expression that Realistic Orchestra achieves almost seems unreal.