Meet Joe Pettitt: Croydon school teacher by day, Big Band leader by night...
Meet Joe Pettitt: Croydon school teacher by day, Big Band leader by night… Joe Pettitt and the Len Phillips Big Band. Pic: Joe Pettitt. One might say that Joe Pettitt is living the best of both worlds. During the day, he is ‘sir’ to all the music students he teaches at Trinity School in Croydon, where he is head of jazz, rock and pop. But some nights, he dresses up in a smart dinner jacket and swaps standing in front of a class to standing in front of an audience of Big Band fans. Pettitt is the bandleader of the Len Phillips Big Band, a south London based 17-piece band whose members ...
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