Background
Rollins was born in Birmingham, of Jamaican parents, and raised in Bentley, Doncaster where he attended Don Valley High School.
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Rollins was born in Birmingham, of Jamaican parents, and raised in Bentley, Doncaster where he attended Don Valley High School.
When he was fourteen years old, he joined The Doncaster Youth Jazz Association, with which he studied and performed for some years before moving to London in 1987.
Dennis Rollins has recorded, performed, and toured with a host of musicians and bands in jazz and popular, including Courtney Pine, and Maceo Parker. In 1995 he formed his own jazz-funk band, Dee Roe, with which he performed at such venues as the Jazz Café, Ronnie Scott"s Jazz Club, the London Forum, and Brixton Academy. In 2000 he again formed a band, the quintet Dennis Rollins" BadBone and Company, launched at the Barbican in March of that year, again specialising in funk-inflected jazz.
In 2005 he formed Boneyard, an ensemble featuring ten trombones, sousaphone (or "sousabone"), and drums.
This band performed a series of live gigs throughout the United Kingdom that summer as well as a performance on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3. Boneyard featured the British jazz trombonists Barnaby Dickinson, Matt Colman, Julian Hepple, Andy Derrick, Kevin Holborough, Harry Brown, and Lee Hallam, with Andy Grappy on sousaphone.
Rollins is an artist/clinician for Michael Rath Trombones. His personal instrument is a yellow brass/nickel silver Rath R3.
2000: Wild & Free (European Parliament) 2001: BadBone 2003: Make Your Move 2006: Big Night Out.
Current Band members of Badbone&co are. Jay Phelps on trumpet, Johnny Heyes on guitars, Courtney Thomas on bass, Ross Stanley on keys and Jack Pollit on drums.
