Bella at Bicester Jazz Festival 2008

On Saturday 9th August, the group will be travelling up to Bicester for the Bicester Jazz Festival 2008. This week we have been rehearsing with Yazz Ahmed, a jazz trumpeter who has recently exited the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied on the postgraduate jazz course. Check out her my space at http://www.myspace.com/yazzahmed. We are also taking our resident percussionist with us, Steve Burke.

For this event, we have had an original piece of New Orleans/Dixieland tune written for us by Paul Robinson, bass guitarist/french horn player based in Oldham. Also Yazz has kindly arranged some Miles Davies tunes and James Davies has also been arranging some well known tunes for us. Gavin Broom has recently arranged a selection of Cole Porter tunes which we performed at Harrogate festival only a few weeks ago which will be getting another outing.

Come and check us out at the Jazz Festival, we’ll be playing in Bicester Village in the Shopping Outlet at 4pm.

“Make a date in your diary for the 9th and 10th August when Bicester Jazz festival comes to town for the 7th consecutive year. As always there will be a weekend of free Jazz entertainment for all to enjoy.
Popular musicians such as accomplished trumpeter Bryan Corbett and “spellbinding” Esther Miller return to entertain the crowds, whilst Oxfordshire Saxophonist, Ewen Baird, joins a thrilling weekend line-up including dazzling trumpet quartet Bella Tromba.
UK-based New Zealander Brendan Power will be playing for the first time. He’s acknowledged by many as one of the most creative skilled and versatile harmonica players around today.
The event begins on Saturday in Bicester Village at 10.30am and runs through until 8pm, with music continuing throughout the evening in Carluccio’s restaurant.” - continue reading at http://www.bicestervillage.com/Bicester/village/newsevents.asp?vId=10690