Sam Eastmond & The Composers Workshop Big Band

big band post-bop avant-garde contemporary jazz

Influences: John Zorn, Sun Ra, Gil Evans

Sam Eastmond leads a large ensemble of London's sharpest young musicians—drawn from NYJO, Tomorrow's Warriors, and conservatories—on trumpet, composition, and arrangement. The Composers Workshop Big Band develops experimental and challenging new works with no commercial constraints, mixing post-bop complexity with avant-garde vision. Eastmond's deep partnership with composer John Zorn, recording Zorn's MASADA Books and Bagatelles on Tzadik, shapes an approach to big band writing that's restlessly inventive.

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Upcoming gigs

Tue 21 Jul — 19:45 — Sam Eastmond & The Composers Workshop Big Band at Vortex Jazz Club