Name: East Grinstead Jazz Club Sept with Pete Long
Start: 2025-09-02T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Chequer Mead

East Grinstead Jazz Club Sept with Pete Long

Here is your ticket link for Sept Jazz Club featuring #petelong booking from Tuesday 5th Aug 10am
East Grinstead Jazz Club kicks off the Autumn season with the welcome return of Pete Long, multi-instrumentalist and one of the UK’s best known jazz musicians and bandleaders.
Pete will be accompanied by our House Band.
Adrian York Keys with Paul Whitten Bass and Vince Dunn Drums.

Pete is one of the UK’s best known jazz musicians and bandleaders. After starting his career in NYJO and on the QE2, he acquired substantial work in the West End. A five-year stint playing and arranging for with Jools Holland’s Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, saw Pete working with Tom Jones, Norah Jones, Solomon Burke, Dr. John, Lulu, Georgie Fame and Lionel Richie, to name but a few, and producing arrangements for John Cale, Texas, Sir Paul McCartney, Candi Staton, Marti Pellow and Chrissy Hynde.
More recently, Pete’s career has divided into three distinct streams- as an educator, working in master classes and as soloist with young musicians all over Britain, from the furthest point of West Wales to the orchestras at the Royal Academy, The Guildhall and the Royal College. In conjunction with this work, Pete has helped develop a new series of student woodwind instruments with a leading UK Manufacturer. As a jazz soloist, Pete has appeared with resident trios in the provinces, and has often been caught at Ronnie Scott’s, in London’s West End.
It is however, as a bandleader and orchestrator that Pete spends most of his time currently, and directing the Big Band at Ronnie Scott’s alongside his own projects. These include his award-winning repertory orchestra Echoes Of Ellington, whose 2018 album “The Jazz Planets” won the Times “Must Have Jazz CD Of The Year”. Further commissions have involved a re-imagining of Swan Lake in the style of Duke Ellington, and a transcription and re-orchestration of “The Days Of Future Passed” for the Moody Blues. In the course of this work, Pete has provided musicians and arrangements for Claire Sweeney, Jane MacDonald, Humphrey Lytlleton, Sir John Dankworth, and many others.