MUSIC: Trinity Laban Duke Ellington Repertory Big Band led by Pete Long

The Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a historic, highly-regarded institution founded in 1872. Over the past decade, Trinity Laban jazz graduates have reinvigorated the UK jazz scene and gained worldwide acclaim: artists such as Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Xhosa Cole, Laura Jurd, and Deschanel Gordon, and bands like Empirical and Ezra Collective. Jazz musicians coming through Trinity Laban have recently claimed numerous awards and nominations, including two BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year Awards, multiple Jazz FM Awards, Parliamentary Jazz Awards and MOBO Awards, and the Mercury Prize in 2023, the first ever to go to a jazz group.

The programme of the evening is to include Blue Pepper and Blue Bird of Delhi from the iconic 1966 Far East Suite as well as a feature on Indian themes by trumpet player Sam Virdie