Let's put it like this.... I'm not playing birthday celebrations of the third world countries dictators and arranged marriages wedding parties. About everything else, we can make a deal.
Until now, I have played promotional parties for wineries, opening nights of bars and restaurants, dining music on hotel terraces, wedding parties, music festivals, food festivals, small parties, huge parties, private parties, romantic wedding anniversary celebrations, classical music recitals, operas and musicals.
I played them alone, with backing tracks, DJs, rock bands, pop bands, wedding bands, fusion and jazz bands, big bands, in duos with piano, jazz quartets, with classical pianists, wind orchestras and mandolin orchestras.
I jumped in and improvised with bands who got ordered a saxophone player in the last minute, saxing up a wedding party, or a corporate event.
I played for ordinary people, rich company owners, politicians, presidents of the national football associations, artists, actors, school kids and the most demanding of all, kindergarteners.
It is not always the same and sometimes it is easier than others, but the most important thing is that the client knows what she/he wants, or that she/he trusts me that I understand what they need, even when they don't. I haven't received any complaints, yet, and I am doing this for a long time. There are gigs that I can go and play right away, but there are also those that I have to prepare for, for a long time, just to play that one gig, sometimes days of preparation for a few minutes of playing. It won't matter how hard it will be for me, I am almost obsessive about satisfying the client.