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.
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Scott Yanow review
Pleased to get this nice review from great American jazz critic Scott Yanow. Album still available here!
Album release day!
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…
2024 album release tour dates
Happy to have some gigs coming up to promote my new album (more on that soon). Here’s a poster with some dates in the first half of 2024. Head over to my gigs page for more info and tickets. See you out there!
John Warren Nonet @ the Vortex 24/10
On 24th October, the John Warren Nonet is playing at the Vortex in Dalston. The evening is being presented by Jazz Nursery, which is a monthly night that I help run. JN normally puts on gigs on the last Thursday of the month in the Southbank area, but this is our first collaboration with the Vortex,…
Jazz books: A.B. Spellman/Louis Armstrong
I recently read two great books about jazz that paint vivid pictures of important and fascinating times and places in the history of the music. A.B. Spellman’s Four Lives in the Bebop Business is divided into four sections, each one portraying a key figure in the 1960s jazz avant garde: Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Herbie…
End of year lists
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…