The Bitter Dose Combo is the only gypsy jazz band whose skinny ties are as tight as their rhythm. Based in Washington, DC, the Bitter Dose entertains at premier area restaurants and lavish cocktail parties, while also getting down and dirty at swing dances and gypsy weddings. Our guitars, accordion, clarinet and upright bass jump and jive with influences stretching from New Orleans to Paris and Brazil to Romania. We play traditional gypsy jazz, swing and straight-ahead, but we've also been known to sing some Gloria Gaynor.