Mike Westbrook's Uncommon Orchestra at Hen And Chicken

Mike Westbrook & Company: ‘The Uncommon Orchestra’
In “A Bigger Show”: Music by Mike Westbrook, Words by Kate Westbrook
Hen & Chicken, 210 North St, Bristol, BS3 1JF
Sunday 5 July
Doors 7.15, for 8.00pm start
£14/£12 (OAP’s/students) Jazz
Kate Westbrook & Martine Waltier (Voices), Billy Bottle (Voice & Bass guitar),
Roz Harding, Sarah Dean, Alan Wakeman, Lou Gare, Gary Bayley, Ian Wellens (Saxophones)
Mike Brewer & Sam Massey (trumpets) Dave Holdsworth (Sousaphone & trumpet),
Andy Dore, Stewart Stunnell, Joe Carnell, Ken Cassidy (Trombones), Marcus Vergette (Bass), ...

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Mike Westbrook & Company: ‘The Uncommon Orchestra’
In “A Bigger Show”: Music by Mike Westbrook, Words by Kate Westbrook
Hen & Chicken, 210 North St, Bristol, BS3 1JF
Sunday 5 July
Doors 7.15, for 8.00pm start
£14/£12 (OAP’s/students) Jazz
Kate Westbrook & Martine Waltier (Voices), Billy Bottle (Voice & Bass guitar),
Roz Harding, Sarah Dean, Alan Wakeman, Lou Gare, Gary Bayley, Ian Wellens (Saxophones)
Mike Brewer & Sam Massey (trumpets) Dave Holdsworth (Sousaphone & trumpet),
Andy Dore, Stewart Stunnell, Joe Carnell, Ken Cassidy (Trombones), Marcus Vergette (Bass),
Jesse Molins & Matthew North (Guitars) Theo Goss & Coach York (Drums)
& Mike Westbrook (Piano)
Supported by Airshaft Trust

“An exhilarating contemporary spin on the big band tradition” The Guardian

Composer/bandleader Mike Westbrook returns to Bristol with his new 22-piece band; “The Uncommon Orchestra” and a brand new jazz entertainment.
‘A Bigger Show’ has been described as a Jazz/Rock Oratorio. Kate Westbrook’s scenario uses the image of the fairground to examine, with irony, humour and high drama, the lot of Humankind in the age of the World-Wide-Web.
The ensemble involves 3 vocalists/actors, acoustic brass and saxophones, electronics and a double rhythm section.
Kate is joined by fellow vocalists Martine Waltier and Billy Bottle, while Mike Westbrook & Company brings established Jazz musicians together with lesser known artists, Pop and Rock musicians, Classical players and talented young musicians in a new kind of big band – the Uncommon Orchestra.

Featured soloists include saxophonists Roz Harding, Lou Gare, and Alan Wakeman, Dave Holdsworth on sousaphone and pocket trumpet, plus the dynamic rhythm team of Marcus Vergette on bass, and Coach York on drums.

“Britain’s most innovative Big Band leader” The Wire
http://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/mikewestbrook/index.shtml

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