Mostly music

On the face of it the history of jazz seems to be a history of individualists and soloists. When people speak of the history of jazz they na...

(Left to right - Jim Doherty, Martin Walsh, John Wadham, Louis Stewart, Noel Kelehan - late 1960s ) It's been a grim few months for jazz...

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...