2024 album release tour dates

Bud Powell’s solo on Celia, the pianist’s own composition named for his daughter, is one of the great bebop performances. A real one-chorus-wonder, it appears on the album Jazz Giant, which comprises two trio sessions: one recorded in 1949 with Ray Brown and Max Roach, and one from 1950 with Roach and Curley Russell.

I was flattered to have my album included in a few jazz journalists’ ‘Best of 2017’ end of year lists recently, including these two really nice ones from Simon Adams and Dave Gelly in Jazz Journal: I was also very happy to be included in Nick Lea’s list for Jazz Views and Tim Stenhouse’s list for…

Very happy to say that my debut album, Golden Earrings, is being released on Fresh Sound New Talent Records on September 1st 2017. It’s a duo with the amazing New York pianist, Michael Kanan, and features compositions by the likes of Nat ‘King’ Cole, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Victor Young, Irving Berlin, plus one original…

My album – Dance Little Lady, Dance Little Man, with Jorge Rossy and Tom Farmer – is out on all platforms now! You can listen to it on your streaming platform of choice here. Or if you’d like to purchase a CD copy, you can do that here. Hope you enjoy! Here’s a photo, by…

Michael Kanan is coming over from New York this January for another tour! Can’t wait to play with him again. We’re playing together in Europe for the first time too – as well as the UK we have gigs in Switzerland and Holland. We’ll be doing a mixture of duo, trio and quartet performances so…

I recently got back from a great trip from New York. As well as seeing lots of inspiring music and eating some lovely food, one of my main reasons for making the journey to the city was to make a duo recording with the pianist Michael Kanan.