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 see my gigs page for more info on personnel as well as ticket links.
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.
Looking forward to some more tour dates, starting with a visit to Norwich, near where I grew up in Norfolk, on 16 April. More info for all of these on my gigs page.
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 played live on BBC Radio 3 a few weeks ago with Alex Mendham & His Orchestra, which plays authentic 1920s/30s jazz and dance music and is resident at the Savoy Hotel in London. You can see footage from one of the tunes we played here, or listen to the audio from the whole show (In…
Jazz fan and photographer Joe McCarty documents the gigs at the White Horse in Bedford, which drummer Mark Hale presents to a faithful crowd each Monday. Here’s one Joe took of me. Check the rest of his photos here.
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…