Collaborators over the years have been many and include Quincy Jones, Abudullah Ibrahim, Mornington Lockett, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth and Cedar Walton.
His ongoing and highly popular collaboration is a celebrated duet show with Claire Martin, the UK
Claire is also an award-winning singer and won B est Vocalist at the B ritish Jazz Awards 2009.
She is described as "the most gifted jazz singer this country has produced in 20 years" and she has shared stages with James Brown, Mark Murphy, Kurt Elling and Tony Bennett.
They're utterly contemporary, yet discernibly influenced both by the classic jazz of the 1950s and '60s (Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman). They opened the London Jazz Festival last year, performed at the famous Newport Jazz Festival in the States and feature regularly in national music media.
“Empirical could turn out to be one of the most important bands in
Dennis Rollins and his explosively funky band Badbone return to tear up Plymouth.
This British trombonist has worked with Roy Ayers, The Roots, Dionne Warwick, Jamiroquai, Cyprus Hill, Hermeto Pascoal, Brand New Heavies, George Clinton, Lonnie Liston Smith, Blur, US3, Tom Jones, Erykah Badu, Marcus Miller, Courtney Pine, Sting, Percy Sledge, Gorillaz and more.
"the most exciting British trombonist for decades…"
