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 Maximilano Martinez, from the recording session:
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…
Born in 1928, Hampton Hawes was a pianist from Los Angeles who played with Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Wardell Gray and Art Pepper. I just finished reading his autobiography, Raise Up Off Me, written with Don Asher, himself a jazz pianist as well as an author. I’d rate it as perhaps my favourite book about…
Chris Searle, the Morning Star’s jazz critic, has kindly written a couple of articles recently featuring yours truly: A feature/interview, where I talk about playing with Michael Kanan and the repertoire I like to play. And a review of a Barry Green Sextet gig at the Vortex.
Looking forward to some gigs coming up in this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival: Friday 16th and Saturday 17th November: launching Introducing REBOP at Toulouse Lautrec, Kennington. REBOP is an international quintet featuring the great Jorge Rossy on vibraphone. We recorded our first CD near Barcelona earlier this year. It is released this month on…
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…
I’m playing a few concerts in Spain next week with my good friend, bassist Dario Di Lecce. On 12 and 13 February we’ll be in Madrid at Cafe Central with very swinging Spanish drummer Esteve Pi. Then on 16 Feb we’ll be playing as a trio with the great Valencian pianist Albert Sanz at Jimmy…