Gareth Lockrane Big Band

Sunday 24th February @ PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)
10 Dean Street, London, W1D 3RW

Doors 12pm Music 1:30pm
Tickets £25

Mention Big Band Jazz and memories flood with the great American Sounds of Basie, Ellington, Dorsey, Evans, Jones & Marsalis.
No longer!
One of the worlds most outstanding bands comes from our side of the pond.

Returning to Pizza Express Live Dean Street for another spectacular Sunday Lunch-time concert, after their sell out 2018 concert is the sensational 19-piece British Big Band, led by the original writing and arranging of the brilliant jazz flautist Gareth Lockrane.

Playing the music from their last album, “Fistfight At The Barndance”, rated a top five jazz album of the year in the 2017 British Jazz Awards, and short listed as 2018 Best Jazz Album in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2018 and awarded BEST BIG BAND at the BRITISH JAZZ AWARDS 2018, we feature the Gareth Lockrane Big Band -
“Probably the best Jazz Big Band since Thad Jones & Mel Lewis” – The Hoste of Jazz

Gareth’s Band features a combination of established British jazz greats with Academy trained younger musicians, in multi layered arrangements scored for 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 5 reeds, guitar, piano, bass, percussion and drums in addition to Gareth on the entire flute family.

Gareth Lockrane Big Band members:
Gareth Lockrane (flutes/composition)
Andy Greenwood, Tom Walsh, Steve Fishwick, Henry Collins (trumpets)
Mark Nightingale, Trevor Mires, Barnaby Dickinson, Barry Clements (trombones)
Sam Mayne, James Gardiner-Bateman, Graeme Blevins, Alex Garnett, Richard Shepherd (saxes)
Ross Stanley (piano)
Mike Outram (guitar)
Ryan Trebilcock (bass)
Ian Thomas (drums)
Hugh Wilkinson (percussion)