Pete Long Sextet featuring Louise Cookman

Internationally renown Jazz Musician Pete Long returns to The Alex, bringing us more sublime jazz, with his sextet - the line up being Mark Armstrong on trumpet, Trevor Mires on trombone, Gunter Kurmayor on piano, Joe Pettitt on bass and Richard Pite on drums, featuring vocalist Louse Cookman.

Pete's prestigious career has seen him working with Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, Tom Jones, Norah Jones, Solomon Burke, Dr. John, Lulu, Georgie Fame and Lionel Richie, to name but a few - as well as producing arrangements for John Cale, Texas, Sir Paul McCartney, Candi Staton, Marti Pellow and Chrissy Hynde.

He is best known recently as a bandleader and orchestrator, directing the Big Band at Ronnie Scott's alongside his own projects. These include his award-winning repertory orchestra Echoes Of Ellington, whose 2018 album "The Jazz Planets" won the Times "Must Have Jazz CD Of The Year". Further commissions have involved a re-imagining of Swan Lake in the style of Duke Ellington, and a transcription and re-orchestration of "The Days Of Future Passed" for the Moody Blues. In the course of this work, Pete has provided musicians and arrangements for Claire Sweeney, Jane MacDonald, Humphrey Lytlleton, Sir John Dankworth, the entire cast of Emmerdale (!) and a host of others.

Category: Live Music | Gig

Prices:
General Admission: GBP 18.00,
Early Bird: GBP 15.00

Artists: Pete Long, Louise Cookman, Mark Armstrong, Trevor Mires, Gunter Kurmayr, Joe Pettitt, Richard Pite