The Band was formed in October 1978,and during the early years made thirty appearances for "Pebble Mill At One" - BBC Television. In addition, the band have appeared on many regional television shows including a six week series for HTV. They regularly have featured on Radio and over the years recorded many L.P's, Cassettes and CD's. Latest releases are always available at live performances, or see the CD Titles web page.
The Pete Allen Jazz Band appears at prestigious Jazz Festivals, Theatres and Clubs throughout the UK and abroad, with tours in Germany, Holland, Denmark, France, U.S.A, Majorca and the Canary Islands. It also finds time to play at private parties and weddings, including social functions for many well known personalities.
Pete's band play an exciting and entertaining musical selection of happy traditional jazz. It's a sound that everyone can enjoy and understand being a combination of well played music with professional presentation perfect for any kind of event. The Pete Allen Jazz Band provide a slick and fast moving programme for the theatre or festival audience. Since the band's formation in 1978 it has excelled at hundreds of major theatre venues, concert halls and festival stages throughout the U.K. and abroad. During the summer months the band is very popular performing at a number of outside jazz picnic events for the National Trust and English Heritage. The band can easily adapt their show to provide the right happy jazzy sounds for any special occasion such as a wedding reception, birthday celebration or corporate event where they guarantee the musical content will be the right blend of instrumentals and well known songs for listening or dancing. Included among the countless wedding receptions and birthday parties at which the band has performed has been a party for Ian Botham and the music for his son's wedding reception. The band is regularly featured at numerous prestigious functions for Rotary, Lions International and many other charitable organisations such as Macmillan Cancer Relief and for Leukaemia research.
The Pete Allen Jazz Band will travel any distance to perform. They carry their own sound system which is ideal for any medium sized venue with an audience capacity of 100 to 500 persons. This equipment is used for balance - not high volume. For the smaller party or wedding reception they can play acoustic, and although the band prefers a raised stage area of about 15 feet square, they can, in exceptional circumstances, perform in some very small areas.
Links: Pete Allen Jazz Website