Mostly music

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the internet and piracy and SOPA and government and big corporation collusion to censor the intern...

Tommy Williams "I hated to follow bass solos after Tom joined the band, because he could put horn players to shame." Benny Golson ...

Rick Peckham Next week sees the culmination of a year’s work – the premiere of ’Hands’ my new concerto for electric guitar and orchestra wh...

Another year - hard to believe but there it is. I note from my statistics that I wrote 27 blog posts this year, and that four of those make ...

Sitting here in Bangkok yesterday, having a coffee in a café, surrounded by schoolkids who were post-school giddy - laughing, joking, punchi...

‘Paris! Paree! What pictures of gaiety those two cities conjure up..........’ As Spike Milligan said – and he was right, at least about the ...

I was tidying my attic music room (just a little, it’s still a shambles) and I came across this video that I’d completely forgotten that I h...

The passing of Paul Motian has again shown the truth in the adage that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.......... And reading t...

Despite how it may seem from the availability of everything on Youtube, jazz is scandalously underrepresented in the field of serious docume...

It’s been my privilege to know Dave Liebman for over twenty five years. Of course I’ve known him from his recordings long before that - ‘Loo...

I'm on the road for the next couple of weeks, so I'll be taking a break from attending to the blog during that time. Back in a while...

I have included several sound clips from the subject of this post - all are very short and are intended as a taster for the music on the alb...