Lewis Riley Big Band

Mike Brewer, Tim Sayer - trumpets
Jamie Dove - trombone
Mick Green, Dave Murphy, Harry Fulcher, Ian Wellens - reeds
Noelle Kadory - vocals,
Neil Burns - guitar,
Lewis Riley - piano,
Marcus Vergette - bass
Dave Sheen - drums

This 12 - piece band includes some of the best jazz musicians in Devon that Lewis has been working with regularly over many years in small and big bands, many of whom have appeared as band leaders themselves at the Teignmouth Jazz Festival in the past. The repertoire consists of about 50% original material, and the remainder, Lewis' arrangements of standard and Latin American tunes.
The band has appeared at both The Royal Seven Stars Hotel and Ariel Centre in Totnes, as part of the Totnes Jazz Collective's regular programme, as well the Flavel in Dartmouth , and most recently at the 2007 Salcombe festival, all attracting good audiences and favourable comment. Lewis Riley was born in Lancashire, but has lived in Devon for nearly thirty years. He has led many jazz bands from trios to big bands, and has been awarded Lottery money for working in schools on Jazz in education projects. Lewis also administers the successful "SaMS" Saturday Music School at KEVICC, where he runs two jazz bands, and is an associate lecturer at Dartington College of Arts.