I went to see jazz trombonist Dennis Rollins at The Sands, Gainsborough, on Saturday with his Badbone & Co band. The venue, only 45 minutes from Doncaster, where Dennis cut his jazz teeth as a teenager with the Doncaster Youth Jazz orchestra, was packed out with fans eager to hear live versions of material from Badbone's last album, 'Big Night Out'.

We weren't disappointed; we were treated to a genre-bending set which took jazz improvisation via hip-hop, funk and techno grooves, and threw in the occasional bit of reggae, R&B and even a Stephen Stills song, just for the fun of it!

Dennis and the band make highly creative use of beat boxes and sampled drum grooves alongside Jack Pollitt, one of the funkiest and fluid drummers I've ever heard. Technology - particularly in the shape of harmonisers used on the trombone - added a wonderfully harmonic dimension to the sound, which was always meticulously rhythmic and precise, without giving up the humanity of the performances.

The stylistic breadth of Dennis' tunes could easily have scared off lesser mortal musicians, but the Badbone rhythm section was never less than funky, reminiscent on occasions of the jaw-dropping feel of the late Ian Dury's powerhouse of a band, The Blockheads. Like them, Badbone & Co were equally at ease with faster hell-for-leather grooves as well as demonstrating a great command of tender accompaniment in the slower numbers.

With a band like this using jazz improvisation as the glue to stick together their broad musical interests, and doing it in such an exciting and accessible way, I do hope that some of the teachers who join our Jazz Experience improvising project will direct their young people to Dennis and the gang as a well of inspiration that shows just what you can do, once you've got a basic grounding in jazz improvising.

Dennis Rollins and Badbone & Co are a cool and exciting new incarnation of jazz, which has evolved into a 21st-century hi-tech, hi-energy, hi-emotion, adrenalin-pumping music that never fails to engage and excite. Go and see them or, better still, encourage young musicians to: they won't be disappointed!