Richard Leach [trombone], Tony Pipkin [trumpet], Zoltan Sagi [clarinet & alto sax], Mark Challinor [banjo & ukulele], Dave Deakin [sousaphone] and Nick Ward [drums and percussion]
Richard Leach’s Street Band started life in 2012 as a strolling jazz ensemble at various town festivals in Droitwich, Worcestershire. The infectious two-beat nature of the band’s rhythm is helped along by the inclusion of a sousaphone in the line-up. The band’s style can best be described as Hot Jazz and Blues, as was heard in the Roaring 20s, with incursions into later tunes of the 30s, 40s and beyond.