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Chapel Street Arts Centre

Dennis Rollins Velocity Trio

Fri 29th May | 8:00pm
Tickets £20 with concessions for students & under 18s AVAILABLE SOON

An award-winning leader in his own right, previous winner of the BBC Jazz 'Best Band' Award, the Parliamentary Jazz 'Education' Award; Ronnie Scott's 'Best Trombone' Award, Rollins’ ensemble is the Velocity Trio, a brilliant marriage of refined contemporary jazz arrangements with smokin’ grooves.

Dennis Rollins MBE- Trombone

Joel Barford- Drums

Ross Stanley- Hammond Organ

“ This group produces genuine fireworks.” BBC Music Magazine (UK)

“…a trombone player who combines seamlessly fluid improvising with a sumptuous sound.” The Guardian (UK)

For 25 years trombonist Dennis Rollins has played at the forefront of the UK jazz, funk and pop as an ‘impossibly virtuosic’ sideman to such stars such as Maceo Parker, Courtney Pine, The Brand New Heavies, Blur, Monty Alexander. an award-winning leader in his own right. 

 

Expect fireworks!

 

 

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Chapel Street Arts Centre

Studio Theatre

DE1 3GU

With 124 seats, the same as New York's legendary Village Vanguard, a superb natural acoustic and excellent sightlines this studio theatre is ideal for jazz. It's part of Chapel Street Arts Centre in the building that was previously the home of  Déda  opposite Chapel Street Car Park in Derby's Cathedral Quarter.

The CUBE bar/cafe serves drinks before the show and during the interval.