Happy New Year to you all. We had a wonderful christmas concert with my big band for Splash Point Jazz Club Eastbourne. It was so good that we have been asked to play their Xmas concert in 2024; details nearer the time 🙂 I’ve had a slow start as I’ve had an operation which has

Hi there, I’m just about to start my teaching again and I have a new job in a local school which I am looking forward to my first day there. My groups and the rehearsal big band I run have already kicked off. We have a christmas concert to prepare for with the big band,

I have been very lax re blogging! My last blog was July 2022 🙂 I’ve also been very poor at advertising my gigs but lately this was due to the fact that my computer had picked up a very aggressive bug and I have had no means of accessing my website for over a month

It’s been a while since my last blog – I have been mostly busy with teaching and writing and family 🙂 It seems that every time I finish a project, I’m behind on the next one! So I feel like I am trying to catch up all the time. I have some interesting ones coming

Happy Easter Hols to you all. I hope you are all well and have at least had your first vaccine – I’ve had my first one 🙂 Three possible concerts in June – really hope these go ahead xx My alto sax is in pieces! I’ve had to take it apart and am cleaning it

Dear family & friends, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we can get together again soon. One year of lockdowns has been hard on all of us, but I am looking forward to being able to do concerts and gigs again, hopefully from June. I am also considering doing a new album by the end

A Happy New Year to you all 🙂 It’s not the new year we were hoping for with yet another lockdown, but there is light at the end of the tunnel with the vaccines being slowly rolled out. I only had three concerts/gigs in my diary this year and a tour but none of that

Dear family, friends and jazz fans, it’s been a difficult year for all of us and it looks like it will continue for a while longer 🙁 I live in hope that we will eventually go back to a normal lifestyle during 2021 and gigs & concerts will be allowed without the need for social

Well, we were all hoping to get back to some kind of normality, but it now looks like we will have a second wave of Covid and probably go back into lockdown 🙁 As you know, all gigs are off apart from the very occasional outdoor gig or an online streaming concert 🙁 I have

Dear Jazz Fans, well, we are still in the grip of Covid 19 and social distancing so the chance of going back to gigging soon is very slim indeed. I’ve been recording short videos for students and fellow musicians to play along to – if you’d like to have a go, subscribe to my YouTube