Beats & Pieces Big Band October 20, 2011

"Big band of the moment" according to the London Jazz Festival, Manchester's very own Beats & Pieces Big Band return to Band on the Wall to launch their brand new live EP, recorded at the venue in June. The band were recently one of the highlights of Ronnie Scott's annual Brit Jazz festival, receiving rave reviews from the Guardian and Jazzwise amongst others, and this will be their final hometown appearance of what has been an amazing year - come help them celebrate in style!

“They couple gale-force collective energy and confidence to startlingly original material (most of it by its rising-star leader Ben Cottrell) that acknowledges big-band traditions while radically modernising them.” John Fordham, The Guardian

Official Website: http://crd.fm/UP