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.  

Happy to have some nice trio dates coming up this March and April. Check the flyers above for more info (click twice for full size), and click on the links in the list below for venue details/tickets. And here’s an interview/preview with London Jazz News. Hope to see you at one of them! 7 March – Hampstead Lounge & Jazz Club 16 March – Burdall’s Yard, Bath Spa Live 19 March – The White Horse, Bedford 21 March – The Flute & Tankard, Cardiff 31 March – The Bear Club, Luton 4 April – Kansas…

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 UK Vibe. And I’ve updated the ‘Press’ section of this website with some other reviews the album received.

My album release tour with Michael Kanan seems like ages ago now, but we had great time and I’m finally getting round to putting up some videos from the album launch we did in Dalston, London. There are four videos: two short promo clips (an extract from Cole Porter’s You Do Something To Me and an extract from Harry Barris’ Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams) and full length videos of The Sweetest Sounds and There’s a Small Hotel (both by Richard Rodgers). All videos filmed/edited by Palle Nodeland of Banquet films. Find…

Had a great time in Germany with the Jorge Rossy/Tilman Oberbeck Quintet the other week. We played at the Jazz Federation, Hamburg, then a few gigs around Karlsruhe. Photo credit: Hans-Ulrich Frank.

I was kindly invited to be interviewed on Radio 3’s Jazz Now programme a few weeks back. Emma Smith asked me some questions about influences, my album with Michael Kanan and our forthcoming tour, as well as playing a few tracks. You can listen to the whole show, which also features a broadcast of a Mark Turner Quartet gig and an interview with Ambrose Akinmusire, but it requires a login and is only available for a limited time. (I’m at 1.02:36) Or you can listen to my interview segment on YouTube here….