Dixie Mix Jazz Band

Saturday 19 April 2025, 7.30pm,
St. Botolph’s Church, TRUNCH

The Dixie Mix Jazz Band will again be opening the 2025 Season of Trunch Concerts with a new programme, dedicated to the Jazz Age. It was a period in the 1920s (often referred as the Roaring Twenties), when jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. Britain was wholly and willingly swept up in this cultural wave. No wonder that The Lotus Jazz club is one of the important venues shown in Downton Abbey, its a place where the black jazz musician and singer Jack Ross performed, and where he met young Lady Rose. 

The DixieMix Jazz Band, one of the UK’s most engaging and successful jazz ensembles. “A wonderful night’s music and entertainment that we are reliving again and again…”. “Congratulations on a very successful evening’s entertainment, for me personally it brought back many happy memories…”. 

The band is a professional six piece, excelling with fresh arrangements of many jazz favourites. With the best jazz musicians in East Anglia, enthusiasm for traditional jazz and great humour, the DixieMix has gained national recognition, leading to a tour with Rod Stewart, TV appearances and multiple festival and theatre gigs.

Dixie Mix: 
Simon Nelson – cornet, trumpet, flugel horn and vocals
Chris Wigley – trombone and vocals
Karl Wirrmann – clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax
Kevin West – banjo, guitar, ukulele
Maurizio Borgna – double bass
Tony Wilkins – drums and vocals

 Guest pianist – Simon Brown