Best Jazz Vocalist at the BBC Jazz Awards in 2007 and 2004, Ian Shaw has already amassed a number of highly acclaimed albums and is a popular performer both in the UK and the US.
An incredibly colourful character, he has been cited, along with Mark Murphy and Kurt Elling, as one of the world's finest male jazz vocalists.
Collaborators over the years include Quincy Jones, Abudullah Ibrahim, Mornington Lockett, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth and Cedar Walton.
His latest collaboration is a celebrated duet show with Claire Martin, pictured top, award-winning singer and won Best Vocalist at the British Jazz Awards 2009.
She is described as 'the most gifted jazz singer this country has produced in 20 years', and has shared stages with James Brown, Mark Murphy, Kurt Elling and Tony Bennett.
Empirical have won UK and European jazz awards for their incredible work which has put them at the forefront of new jazz.
They're utterly contemporary, yet discernibly influenced both by the classic jazz of the Fifties and Sixties (Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman).
They opened the London Jazz Festival last year, performed at the famous Newport Jazz Festival in the States, and feature regularly in national music media.
Jazzwise Magazine even went as far to say the band could 'turn out to be one of the most important bands in UK jazz history'.
Finally, Dennis Rollins, pictured bottom, and his explosively funky band Badbone, return to Plymouth following their show at The Guildhall last June.
This British trombonist has worked with Roy Ayers, The Roots, Dionne Warwick, Jamiroquai, Cypress Hill, Hermeto Pascoal, Brand New Heavies, George Clinton, Lonnie Liston Smith, Blur, US3, Tom Jones, Erykah Badu, Marcus Miller, Courtney Pine, Sting, Percy Sledge, Gorillaz and more!
Tickets for the festival go on sale soon. See www.barbicanjazzandbluesfestival.com for more details.
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