Overview

Multi-award winning and charismatic British jazz star Dennis Rollins is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished trombonists working in jazz and popular music.

Over the past 20 years he has performed with some of the most famous bands on the jazz, soul and pop scenes, including Maceo Parker, Courtney Pine, The Jazz Warriors, Jamiroquai, US3, Blur and the Brand New Heavies. He has just been awarded the 2008 Jazz Educator of the Year Award at the 2008 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. This follows other recent awards including Trombonist of the Year at both the 2006 British Jazz Awards and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Awards in 2007.

As well as playing the trombone and other instruments, Dennis is a gifted composer, arranger and music technologist who employs an impressive array of on-stage processing devices. He is also noted for his masterclasses with young people across the UK and Europe as well as in West Africa, where he has worked on a large-scale music education project for the British Council.

His versatility and unique approach to the trombone can be heard to full effect in his award-winning band Dennis Rollins’ Badbone & Co, with a repertoire of groove-based funky dance music with jazz overtones.