Dennis Rollins’ FUNKY-FUNK!

Fresh from the Maceo Parker 'School of Funk', Dennis joins an elite lineage of trombone players responsible for changing it's perceptions. From Jamiroquai, The Brand New Heavies, Courtney Pine to Maceo Parker and PeeWee Ellis, Rollins has lent his 'bone skills to an array of jazz, funk and groove personalities. Here, he presents 'FUNKY-FUNK!' an electrifying, hard hitting 6-piece outfit delivering fat angular bass-lines and sumptuous horn melodies.

A passionate performer and educator, British trombone player Dennis Rollins MBE has established a reputation as an artist of excellence, and has lent his unique and stylish talents to some of this country's, and indeed the world's top jazz and pop personalities such as Courtney Pine, Maceo Parker, Jamiroquai, US3, The Brand New Heavies, Blur, Monty Alexander, Pee Wee Ellis and Jean Toussaint, amongst others.

As a bandleader, in 2006 his jazz/funk outfit Badbone & Co won a prestigious BBC Jazz Award in the Best Band category. In the following year he picked up both Trombonist of the Year at the British Jazz Awards and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Awards. Dennis was nominated twice in the 2008 Parliamentary Jazz Awards for Jazz Musician of the Year and for Jazz Education; he won the latter.

Other awards include British Trombone Society (BTS) Player of the year Award 2013 and JazzYorkshire Award 2012 Best Band for his band Velocity Trio.

As a recording artist he's currently recorded 5 critically acclaimed albums. Three with his award-winning band Badbone & Co, and two with his progressive jazz organ-trio, Velocity Trio.