Mostly music

‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’, as the saying goes. Well I’m in the middle of a period of doing absolutely no work, having sec...

One of the reasons I started this blog in the first place was because I’ve always liked reading musicians writing about music and I’ve alway...

Very interesting BBC online interview with Keith Jarrett by Ethan Iverson available for the next few days. You can listen to it for the nex...

I've been amazed at the huge response to my post on jazz education. Not only has there been direct responses in the comments section to ...

I took advantage of being at the recent International Association of Schools of Jazz annual meeting in Lucerne with Dave Liebman to interv...

I think it’s fair to say that in the jazz media, jazz education (or at least formalised jazz education in institutions) gets a bad press. Wh...

Again this is an older post which I originally published on my website. But it's still current and I'm placing it here in case anyon...

An American guitarist friend of mine told me a story about how his father – a mid-western hardware store owner with little prior knowledge o...