The Gareth Lockrane Big Band

Following the Gareth Lockrane Big Band’s sold out album launch show in October for the new critically acclaimed album “Box of Tricks”, we are proud to present the band again in January. The album, the band’s follow up to the “Fistfight at the Barndance” album in 2017, features all Gareth’s compositions, and combines a wealth of new writing and arranging with a wide array of influences from all corners of jazz to soul, blues, funk, film and world music. Their first album, “Fistfight At The Barndance”, was rated a top five jazz album of the year in the British Jazz Awards, and short listed as Best jazz album in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Mention Big Band Jazz and memories flood with the sound of our own Tubby Hayes Big Band and the great American sounds of Basie, Ellington, Dorsey, Evans, Jones & Marsalis. Add to that list the name Lockrane. It is one of the world’s most outstanding bands & comes from this side of the pond. 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 “Box Of Tricks” album launch is a “must get to” concert for all music lovers for whom the sound of the big band ticks all the boxes. "“This excellent album is not so much a Box of Tricks as a carefully lit display case of gemstones”" - ukjazznews