Patrick Billingham looks at Bader’s Big Band and requests. The Douglas Bader Foundation have announced that they are recruiting for Bader’s Big Band. A new project. For those under a certain age who are unaware of his heroic exploits, Douglas Bader lost both legs in an aircraft crash in 1931. Nevertheless he was […]
Saxophonist Patrick Billingham begins his new monthly column with a look at The Sussex Jazz Orchestra and The Brighton Big Band. This is the first of what I hope is to be a regular monthly column relating to big bands based in Sussex. I shall start by defining what I mean by a […]
How did you first get into playing jazz? “At school I took piano lessons. At seventeen or eighteen I listened to Oscar Peterson and Errol Garner and then Bill Evans. Anybody who hears Bill Evans is influenced by Bill Evans. That was a big thing for me.” “Then I went to music college […]