Mostly music

Having spent the past few weeks writing a guitar concerto (more on this soon), it's so nice to come back and just play a standard..........

Recently I took part in a very interesting discussion as to whether jazz critics should be able to play jazz or not. I came down on the ...

The second part of my report on the recent IASJ meeting in Sao Paulo in July 2011. For part one go here Day 4 Today is a very Brazilian kind...

I recently attended the International Association of Schools of Jazz Meeting at the Conservatorio Souza Lima in Sao Paulo. The IASJ is an ...

I originally wrote this post over a year ago, and also posted it on my website , but having recently listened to yet another multitude of d...

I was in the huge branch of FNAC in Sao Paulo recently, looking for some Brazilian music, and while I was browsing, some kind of anodyne gen...

And so I gingerly set foot in the shark infested waters of the topic of American and European jazz. The title of this post, “Boston or Berli...

Recently I took part in a back and forth in an online discussion, on the Irish Times music blog, about jazz and its perception in the eyes o...

This is pretty amazing to watch. When the metronomes cannot connect to each other, they get out of synch. As soon as they can connect, or ...

I don't have a mobile phone This is the answer given to numerous people who ask me for my cell phone number, and it has been greeted wit...

In a recent blog post, Ethan Iverson has a good swipe at anyone (and there are many) who wilfully, or stupidly, misunderstand the work of T...

Probably well behind everybody else, I’ve been reading the Thelonious Monk Biography by Robin Kelley And in what amounts to a priva...