Dennis Rollins

Dennis Rollins, MBE (born 1964) is an English jazz trombonist, the founder and bandleader of BadBone and Co. Dennis George Rollins was born in Birmingham, England, of Jamaican parents, and raised in Bentley, Doncaster, where he attended Don Valley High School.

Rollins has recorded, performed, and toured with a host of musicians and bands in jazz and pop, including Courtney Pine,[2] and Maceo Parker,.

In 2000 he again formed a band, the quintet Dennis Rollins' BadBone and Co., launched at the Barbican Centre in March of that year, again specialising in funk-inflected jazz.

[4] 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.

In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours list Rollins was awarded an MBE for services to music.

Rollins with trombone, 2008