This is hard-blowing music for hard times featuring a storming twelve-piece horn and eight-piece rhythm sections.

NRO takes its inspiration from New York’s melding of Jazz and Latin from the 50s to the 70s, when the sound of jazz luminaries Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker collided with the Cuban roots of Chano Pozo and Machito.

Mirroring the effervescence of that scene, New Regency Orchestra adds a contemporary London spin with the City’s best Latin Music and Jazz talent driving each other to greater heights.

Curated by Lex Blondin (Total Refreshment Centre / Church of Sound) the band’s core repertoire features pillars of the genre from Machito, Tito Puente and Chico O’Farrill as well as more obscure gems recovered by deep-mining. New arrangements have been made by pianist/composer Eliane Correa and the Catford Quincy Jones, Nathaniel Cross, is putting down his trombone to conduct the roaring big band. Musical Director is master percussionist and Afro-Cuban don, Adé Egun Crispin Robinson, and the band’s evolving line-up is a who’s who of the what’s what in London’s Jazz and Latin scenes from Tamar Osborn on saxophone to Yelfris Valdés on trumpet.

16+ only

Como No is a producer of live events based in London. Our primary focus is on performers rooted in Latin America but generally we work with artists that we like in any field.

Since we began in 1986 we’ve presented the who’s who of Latin Music from Celia Cruz to Calle 13 and from Mercedes Sosa to Bomba Estereo via every Buena Vista permutation from Compay Segundo to Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club taki More>>>