Curated & Created by NTU – NTU Music Concert Season

Get your glad rags on and start the week in style with NTU Music‘s award-winning Big Band at Metronome!

Enjoy swing and jazz classics at this event, featuring trombonist Dennis Rollins performing your big band favourites.

Dennis Rollins MBE– biography

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 including Courtney Pine, Maceo Parker, Jamiroquai, US3, The Brand New Heavies, Blur, Monty Alexander, Pee Wee Ellis and Jean Toussaint.

Dennis is also a renowned bandleader. In 2006 his jazz / funk outfit Badbone & Co won the prestigious BBC Jazz Award for Best Band and the following year he picked up Trombonist of the Year at both the British Jazz Awards and the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Awards. Dennis was nominated twice in the 2008 Parliamentary Jazz Awards – for Jazz Musician of the Year and the Jazz Education Award; he won the latter. His other awards include, British Trombone Society Player of the year 2013 and Jazz Yorkshire Award 2012 for his band Velocity Trio.

Working as a solo artist, he’s currently recorded five critically acclaimed albums. Three with his award-winning band Badbone & Co and two with his progressive jazz organ-trio, Velocity Trio. Dennis is currently composing music for his sixth album release with his brand new FUNKY-FUNK! groove ensemble. He’s proud to be an exclusive endorsee of UK brass instrument maker, Michael Rath Trombones.

Accessibility
Seated gigs offer disabled access within the first three rows inside the venue.

Please click here for full accessibility information.

If you have any particular requirements or queries, please email us ahead of the event at [email protected].