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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 / conductorAnthony Brown
percussionOllie Dover
clarinetOwen Bryce
trumpetGraham South
trumpetNick Walters
trumpetSimon Lodge
tromboneRich McVeigh
tromboneAnton Hunter
guitarBeats & Pieces Big Band
band / ensemble / orchestraRichard Jones
violinAbout
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....