Live Jazz London

Influences: Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford

Fleeting Paradise Orchestra is a big band playing arrangements of 1920s and 1930s American territory band jazz, blues and dance band repertoire, alongside original compositions in the same idiom. The sound is warm, brass-and-reed driven swing with a strong focus on period-authentic ensemble writing. Led by Ewan Bleach, the group revives the rough-edged energy of the territory bands, the regional orchestras that kept hot dance music alive across America before the swing era.

Upcoming gigs

• Sun 15 Nov — Ewan Bleach's Fleeting Paradise Orchestra at Jamboree Venue