The Pocket Ellington featuring Tony Kofi & Alan Barnes

About this event

Member ticket only – £20

Non-members ticket only – £25

Members dining + ticket – £55

Non-members dining + ticket – £60

Hotel Deal - Dinner Bed & Breakfast plus tickets just £189 per couple

Over 18s only

Doors Open 7pm

On Stage 8.15pm

‘A terrific band with a rhythm section as good as any on the planet’– Blue Light, magazine of the Duke Ellington Society UK

Born out of Tony Kofi (reeds) and Alex Webb (piano)’s shared love of Ellington, The Pocket Ellington manages what ought to be impossible – creating a classic Ellingtonian sound with just four horns and a rhythm section.  But with Kofi, Alan Barnes, Freddie Gavita and David Lalljee on hand, anything is possible.  Veteran bassist Dave Green and powerhouse drummer Winston Clifford provide the swing.

Great charts from the 1930s and 1940s – Main Stem, Rain Check, Cotton Tail, Chelsea Bridge and others - are presented in clever new arrangements which evoke the period but also offer solo space to these top-flight musicians.

The repertoire also includes pieces from artists and arrangers who were influenced by the Duke – Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk and Gil Evans.  It’s a big sound from a pocket band.