A night of hard-hitting, mighty-swinging 50s Afro Cuban Jazz and 70s Guaguanco from the storming twenty-piece big band - the New Regency Orchestra.

The New Regency Orchestra (NRO) is a twenty-piece big band on a mission to take the music of the Afro Cuban musical saints and reinvent it through a London filter. This is hard-blowing music for hard times featuring a storming twelve-piece horn and eight-piece rhythm sections.

The NRO takes its inspiration from New York’s melding of Jazz and Latin from the 50s to the 70s when the sound of jazz luminaries Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker collided with the Cuban roots of Chano Pozo and Machito.

Mirroring the effervescence of that scene, The New Regency Orchestra adds a contemporary London spin with the City’s best Latin Music and Jazz talent driving each other to greater heights.

Curated by Lex Blondin (Total Refreshment Centre / Church of Sound) the band’s core repertoire features pillars of the genre from Machito, Tito Puente and Chico O’Farrill as well as more obscure gems recovered by deep-mining. New arrangements have been made by pianist/composer Eliane Correa and the Catford Quincy Jones, Nathaniel Cross, who is putting down his trombone to conduct the roaring big band. Musical Director is master percussionist and Afro-Cuban don, Adé Egun Crispin Robinson and the band’s evolving line-up is a who’s who of the what’s what in London’s Jazz and Latin scenes from Tamar Osborn on saxophone to Yelfris Valdés on trumpet.

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COMPETITION: Win 1x pair of tickets to attend New Regency Orchestra – Residency at EartH at 19:00 on Tuesday 15 February 2022.

To enter the competition, send an email to jamie@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ line. The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: One of the creatives leading New Regency Orchestra is no other than the highly talented Crispin ‘Spry’ Robinson who is a multi-percussionist specialising in Afro-cuban sacred drum music. In 2015 he made a documentary about rumba music in Cuba with Gilles Peterson and Havana Cultura. Of the following artists, which has he either performed or recorded with?
A: .1) Soul II Soul .2) Kylie Minogue .3) Chaka Khan .4) Trick question - he's teamed up with all of them and a whole load more!