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The audience to the last concert were enthusiastic. "Just wonderful" "Totally original" " ...compelling sounds" " What an amazing British band of talent"The band will play not only the music from their first album, "Fistfight At The Barndance", 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, but also new compositions and arrangements, in preparation for their much anticipated 2024 new album, by what has been called "Probably the best Jazz Big Band since Thad Jones & Mel Lewis" - The Hoste of JazzGareth'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.Here's' the band in brilliant form in a previous PizzaExpress Jazz Club performance.