Forthcoming shows
Please note that, regrettably, both events have been cancelled due to the coronavirus situation:
Sunday 26th April 2020 8pm doors 7.30pm
Mike Westbrook's Uncommon Orchestra “On Duke’s Birthday”
Special Preview Performance
The Grand Hotel
Sea Front, Torbay Road
Torquay TQ2 6NT
Tickets
Enquiries fougoumusic.com tel 01803 898570
Wednesday 29th April 2020 - doors 18.00
Mike Westbrook's Uncommon Orchestra 'On Duke's Birthday'
Ronnie Scott's
47 Frith Street Soho
London W1D 4HT
Tickets: £30 - £47.50
Buy Tickets
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Past Shows:
Sunday 25th August 2019
Mike Westbrook THE UNCOMMON ORCHESTRA
‘THE BIG BAND IS BACK!’ at TORQUAY TOWN HALL
Castle Circus Torquay Devon TQ1 3DR
‘Jazz on a Summer’s afternoon”
doors 3.30pm concert 4pm
Buy Tickets Adult £14, under 18 £10, under 10 Free, family £38 presented by westbrook jazz and fougou music
The Uncommon Orchestra and guests were on the road in Italy in November 2018:
PURE GOLD
Thursday 15th November CATANIA
Friday 16th November PALERMO
ROSSINI Saturday 17th November PESARO
Follow the link for the entire Catania show on YouTube:
Mike Westbrook Uncommon Orchestra - Catania Jazz, 15 novembre 2018 - Teatro ABC
For a short video from the Catania concert please visit Mike Westbrook's web page:
Gizzards all Gory from the Bigger Show
Previous shows:
Sunday 17th December 2017 8pm
Blue Orange Theatre
118 Great Hampton Street Birmingham B18 6AD
blueorangetheatre.co.uk
Read the review of the show by John Watson at: LondonJazzNews
Presented by Birmingham Jazz
www.birminghamjazz.co.uk
For a short video of one of Alan's solos in the show, please visit:
westbrookjazz.co.uk
For a review of the show by Matthew Wright in JazzWise magazine, click HERE
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BIGGER SHOW LONDON PREMIERE 2016
Kings Place, N1, on Friday 20th May 2016.
BIGGER SHOW FOR BBC "IN TUNE" : Mike and Kate Westbrook with a small contingent from the
Uncommon Orchestra were in the studio on BBC Radio 3's "In Tune" on Thursday May 19th,
performing "live" from 16.30, in advance of the Orchestra"s King's Place concert on the 20th.
A double CD of the show was recorded and released in 2015. To purchase it, please visit:
Westbrook Records
The album is also available on Amazon at:
Amazon.co.uk
Reviews:
'A Bigger Show is ambitious, thought-provoking, and exhilarating; when it ends, you feel as though you’ve been on a journey'. (from the review by Richard Williams,THE BLUE MOMENT, February 2016)
'Alan Wakeman and Roz Harding on saxophones are top notch and the jazz rock rhythms romp along at full swing.' (from the review by Mike Hobart, Financial Times, Life & Arts, February 5, 2016 )
