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Beats & Pieces Big Band (uk) at Bray Jazz Festival at Mermaid Arts Centre

Courtesy of Bray Jazz | Posted on March 17, 2017

Where

Mermaid Arts Centre
Bray Jazz Festival

Main Street, Co. Wicklow
Bray
Map
+353 1 272 4030

When

Sat, April 29, 2017
20:00

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Musicians

Ben Cottrell
composer / conductor
Anthony Brown
percussion
Ollie Dover
clarinet
Owen Bryce
trumpet
Graham South
trumpet
Nick Walters
trumpet
Simon Lodge
trombone
Rich McVeigh
trombone
Beats & Pieces Big Band
band / ensemble / orchestra

About

Beats & Pieces Big Band is a fourteen-piece juggernaut that swaggers old school when it wants to, but also reveals a contemporary urban edge, with Radiohead medleys, electronica and Bowie in amongst the brass and reeds.

Winners of the ‘Best Newcomer Award’ from Jazz FM in 2013 and ‘Best Ensemble’ at the prestigious Parliamentary Music Awards a year later, Beats & Piece’s idiomatic range and flat out attack have drawn justifiable comparisons to their acclaimed 1980s forebears’s ‘Loose Tubes.’

Composer and conductor Ben Cottrell’s compositions reflect the diversity of music that people of their generation have grown up with, and is influenced as much by Michael Jackson, Bjork and Radiohead as they are by Ellington and Gil Evans....

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