Gareth Lockrane Big Band

PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)

The much requested return, for their second Dean Street concert of 2019, of the Gareth Lockrane Big Band. 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. The sensational 19-piece British Big Band, led by the original writing and arranging of the brilliant jazz flautist Gareth Lockrane, return to PizzaExpress Live Dean Street for another spectacular Sunday Lunch time concert, after their two sold out Previous concerts.

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“...Lockrane is the next best thing and the most exciting and inventive instrumentalist in the country.”

Jack Massarick (London Evening Standard)

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The audience to the last concert were enthusiastic. “Just wonderful” “Totally original” “…compelling sounds” “ What an amazing British band of talent”

The band will play not only 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 Best jazz album in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2018, but also new compositions and arrangementsby what has been called “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.

This is a “must get to” concert for all music lovers for whom the sound of the big band ticks all the boxes.

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)