▹    Provide a local facility for musicians seeking to experience and enhance their ability to play Jazz / Swing / Rhythm & Blues in a Big Band context

▹    Develop personal playing ability (both in soloing and as a unit) and seek to achieve and maintain a high standard of musicianship   

▹    Seek public performance opportunities

We are privileged to be tutored and mentored by Bristol jazz legend Andy Hague

The band’s ever expanding repertoire of well over 150 numbers covers a broad spectrum, from styles associated with the likes of Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Duke  Ellington and Glen Miller, music from musicals and film themes, smooth ballads, Latin and some groovy funk.  And for vocals, we often feature the (in)famous ‘Mendip Sisters’! and our lead trumpet player Ray Montague.

We have entertained enthusiastic audiences and dancers at a variety of charitable events, for instance supporting Macmillan Cancer Support, Youth at Heart, Mend the Gap and local youth groups