Of course it’s an impossible choice! But there’s no doubt about it that any appearance by the great NICK DAWSON fills our […]

ALAN BARNES , saxophonist, clarinettist and multi-winner in the British Jazz Awards is probably the most high-profile musician in Britain today! Described […]

I’m playing a set for the SOUTHCHURCH COMMUNITY with my old friends Tim Huskisson (piano) ROGER CURPHEY (bass) and ALAN CLARKE (drums) […]

For the last fifteen years(!) I’ve enjoyed working with my great friend JIM BAYNE to raise funds for his wonderful ‘Softpower’ Charity […]

SIMON SPILLETT is nothing less than a new-age British jazz legend! A lifelong Boswell for the great British tenor saxophonist Tubby Hayes, […]

I’ve had the great pleasure of knowing – and playing alongside – my great friend KAREN SHARP for quite a few years […]

I can’t believe it’s the 40th Anniversary of the Birmingham International Jazzfest but – thanks to Jim and Ron Simpson and their […]

It’s good to be ‘back on the road again’ (thank you Willie Nelson!) with the Half Dozen at Swanage after no less […]

Since jazz came to the UK back in the 1920s there have been a handful of truly great trombonists: among them the […]

This Sunday I hiope to be playing from 3-5pm at the All That Jazz Blues and Real Ale Festival at the Naturist […]