RNCM Big Band with Colin Towns - Miss Otis regrets

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5th piece in our gig with Colin Towns - This first half is a suite entirely based on songs by Cole Porter. This song features vocalist Fran Marshfield

For its second outing this season, the RNCM Big Band is joined by one of Britain's most prolific film and television composers and front man for two of the most innovative and exciting big band projects in Europe, the Hamburg-based NDR Big Band and the Colin Towns Mask Orchestra.

Colin's hand-picked selection of music for tonight's concert forms two contrasting sets. The first set, Don't Fence Me In, spotlights Towns' radical interpretation of Cole Porter songs, reinventing them as you've never heard them before! The second features songs from his recent, highly acclaimed album John Lennon -- In My Own Write, on which he re-works 21 classic Lennon tunes, covering material from Nowhere Man right through to the 1980 solo album Double Fantasy.


Saxophones:
Tom Thorp
Miriam Rintelen
Ben Watte
Kyran Matthews
Will Upton

Trumpets:
Mark Harrison
Laura Wilson
Stephen Murphy
Jack Tinker

Trombones:
Jonathan Brierley
Christopher Jones
Paul Exton-McGuinness
Matthew Denney

Piano:
Laurence McNaughton

Guitar:
David Bainbridge

Bass:
Stewart Wilson

Drums:
Jim Molyneux