This trio plays a range of combo music including traditional and modern jazz. The group becomes a "Swingtet" with the addition of saxophone, trombone, guitar and an optional vocalist producing a "little Big-Band" sound. The Swingtet plays a variety of arrangements from hotel style background music, sweet dinner tunes, big band swing and rock.

Over the years, comments from the press about the Jazz Refuge Trio state "their music comes out of the Miles Davis sound of the mid '60s, with a nod to Freddie Hubbard." "They play with a rhythmic energy and intensity of sound that makes you lean forward and listen."