Big Band Bowie

Big Band Bowie is a jazz concert in Leeds that reworks the songs of David Bowie for a big band line-up. It takes place at The Attic, a Leeds venue on Sheaf Street.

Big Band Bowie is presented as a jazz act, with the music of David Bowie arranged for a large ensemble. The project takes its name from Bowie, the English singer and songwriter whose catalogue spans glam rock, soul, art rock and electronic pop, and the repertoire draws on that body of songs rather than on original material.

The Attic is at 3 Sheaf Street in Leeds and mainly hosts concerts with a focus on pop, rock and indie music. For this jazz evening, the programme moves that tradition into a big band setting, so the appeal lies largely in hearing familiar Bowie songs reimagined through brass, reeds and rhythm section writing.

The concert suits listeners who know Bowie's records and want to hear them arranged in a jazz idiom, as well as jazz audiences curious about big band treatments of rock repertoire. It is a single evening in Leeds on this visit.