I’m excited to be releasing an album in collaboration with my friend Linus Eppinger. A Sinner Kissed an Angel features Dutch drum legend Eric Enike (Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin etc) and Darryl Hall (Cedar Walton, Geri Allen etc) and includes repertoire by Nat King Cole, Benny Goodman, Dusty Springfield and George Cables. We’ll be finishing our album release tour with a London launch date at Pizza Express, Dean Street. Hope to see you there!
Looking forward to what should be a very fun tour with my good friend, the great guitarist Linus Eppinger. After a quick pit-stop in Hamburg, we’ll be off to the Netherlands for gigs in Breda (at the Jazz Festival), Amsterdam, The Hague and Leiden. See the tour poster below. We’ll be playing with a few…
Looking forward to this nice run of dates this spring, including a couple of festivals with the incredible vocalist Sara Dowling.
I wrote this on my old website a while ago, but thought I would repost here. I’ve been learning this Charlie Parker solo recently (transcription here). It was recorded in 1943, towards the start of Bird’s career and, although his style is plainly not yet fully formed, it is one of my favourite examples of his…
Looking forward to playing songs by Harold Arlen this Sunday 18 May in the intimate basement space of the Green Note in Camden.Tickets here. I’ll be joined by Sam Watts on piano and Jack Garside on bass and we’ll be playing some well known hits and some obscure gems by the composer of “Somewhere Over…
Introducing REBOP is now available on Unit Records. REBOP is a collaborative, international band, featuring: Jorge Rossy (Barcelona) – vibraphone Sam Braysher (London) – alto saxophone Linus Eppinger (Amsterdam) – guitar Tilman Oberbeck (Hamburg) – double bass Phelan Burgoyne (London/Basel) – drums Listen/buy it on Bandcamp.
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…