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The Lewes Big Band was formed in 2019 as the Lewes Youth Band, since then they have gone on to play at Glyndebourne Opera House, Con Club Lewes and All Saints Lewes. The Lewes Big Band's musicians include graduates or current students across many of the UK's leading music institutions such as; Royal College of Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Leeds Conservatoire and BIMM. Join the Lewes Big Band for an extra-terrestrial journey as they perform Pete Long's Jazz Planets in addition to some of the biggest and best big band hits by Duke Ellington, Count Basie and more! Gustav Holst and Pete Long, two musical legends, have merged together to create an out-of-this world fusion of Classical and Jazz. Following on from Duke Ellington's success in merging Classical and Jazz with his works of Nutcracker and Peer Gynt, Pete Long's re-imagination of Holst's Planet Suite (1918), Jazz Planets, is set to become a classic of our time.