Dominic Alldis Trio 2023 Promo

Jazz

Dominic Alldis has been part of the British jazz scene for over 30 years. He has led a various musical groups, including an octet with saxophonist Iain Ballamy & The Pavao Quartet, a quartet with jazz harmonica virtuoso Adam Glasser and a piano-duo with jazz pianist and singer Jonathan Gee.

The Dominic Alldis Trio features pianist & arranger Dominic Alldis with bassist Andrew Cleyndert and drummer Justin Tambini. It was originally formed in 2013 with the legendary drummer Martin France who sadly passed away in September 2024. The trio has made a speciality of performing jazz arrangements of classical themes, opera, nursery rhymes, folk songs and jazz standards from the Great American Songbook.

They have performed at the Amersham Festival, Ashford Music Society, Athenaeum, Beaminster Festival, Berkhamsted Jazz Club, Birley Arts Centre, Buxton Festival, Chelsea Arts Club, Chipping Norton Festival, Chipping Sodbury Music Society, Church Stretton, Clapham Omnibus, Cooper Hall, Cranleigh Arts Centre, Cranleigh School, Dorchester Arts, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dumfries Music Club, Elgar Room, The Forge, Great Comp Music Festival, Haywards Heath Music Society, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Jazz at St Giles, Leighton Buzzard Music Club, London Jazz Festival, Mayfield Festival, Menuhin Hall, Moffat Music Society, Newbury Spring Festival, Oundle Festival, Petworth Festival, Pheasantry, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Ripon Festival, Riverhouse Barn, Shere Festival, South Bank Centre, St. James’s Piccadilly, Sutton Valence Music Society and The Stables in Wavendon.

Dominic Alldis Trio website: www.dominicalldistrio.com

Current projects

Dominic Alldis Trio

Dominic Alldis Trio

The Dominic Alldis Trio features pianist and arranger Dominic Alldis, bassist Andrew Cleyndert and drummer Martin France. They explore the meeting point between two worlds: classical music and jazz.

Dominic Alldis Cabaret Trio

American songbook

Dominic appears regularly with his cabaret trio featuring Andrew Cleyndert (bass) and Colin Oxley (guitar). Their shows feature classics from the Great American Songbook and songs by British and French composers and contemporary New York-style cabaret songs.

Classical Project

Dominic was born into a family of classical musicians; his mother is a violinist and his father the renowned choral conductor John Alldis. 

Past projects

Themes from French cinema by Dominic Alldis

Dominic Alldis Octet

Dominic’s contemporary arrangements of themes from classic French films, including A Man and a Woman, Jules et Jim and Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, and songs by the celebrated French film composer Michel Legrand, most famous his score for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and hit songs “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life”, “The Summer Knows” and “Windmills Of Your Mind” from The Thomas Crown Affair.  Dominic's innovative and jazz-influenced arrangements retain the charm of the original themes.

PIANO TRIO WITH ORCHESTRA - Dominic Alldis

Piano trio with orchestra

In 2009, Dominic Alldis composed a suite for jazz piano trio and string orchestra. A Childhood Suite, inspired by themes from traditional nursery rhymes as well as original material, was first performed at St. James's Piccadilly in April 2010, followed by a performance by the Amersham Festival Orchestra in February 2012.

AN EVENING WITH BARRY FANTONI

An evening with Barry Fantoni

Barry Fantoni was one of the founders of Private Eye Magazine and is still a regular contributor, working alongside the magazine’s editor Ian Hislop.  Dominic and Barry have been friends since the early 80s.  Barry is also a fine jazz clarinetist.  They decided to develop a show which combined Barry's poetry and reminscencies about life at Private Eye with some swinging jazz.