My Friend Tom

It's been a busy few days. I started the week by spending six hours on the phone with the people at Tom Tom trying to re-activate the map software after it came back from a warranty repair. The perseverance paid off and now it's back to it's good self.

I've been lucky …

Redesign

A site

The New Face Of Trad Jazz

How's this happened. I'm not 100% sure of how my photo got onto the BBC Hereford an Worcester Site but it's there?!

Check it out. that picture was taken with a group I used to play with called The Big Swing but it's now managed to be one of those

A New Year In Abu Dhabi

Well it looks like I'll be

Samsung - You've done it Again

With the exception of our instruments there's no finer friend to modern day musicians than our mobile phones.

With technological advancements the way they are it's getting increasingly difficult to get a phone that makes and receives calls and text messages. A few years …

A Late Post And Long Day

I've had an intensive day of pounding through jazz standards with Jonny before he went back to London. We played for a good 5 hours and I carried on practicing those good old half-diminished scales well after he'd gone -Woo-Hoo!

I've spent the rest of my evening …

Testing For The Podcast

I'm now waiting for my studio kit to arrive at the store, then I'll be able to convert my mac into a mini studio, then I'll be able to record the podcast and publish it on-line. But until then I'm currently in the process of designing a brand new site especially for the …

Jazz Duo

My good pal Jonny is heading up from London tomorrow to work on our duo material.

This is a fairly new project that we are working on together and the majority of our material to date are some of the more laid back jazz standards. We have a few other ideas to try …

Pirate or Clown?

All for the love of music!!!

Now the question is. Which one of these outfits did I spend the last 48hours gigging in?

As cool as it could be to gig as a pirate it was actually the clown outfit on the right I play in for Indian weddings :P. (The picture on the left was …

Mobile Blogging = Success

I half expected yesterdays post to be 3 sizes to small and in some obscure font but it seems nice an normal. Mobile blogging has passed it's first text. I wouldn't say it'll be my regular way to post as it's a little tricky banging out a post on a touch screen phone but …

Mobile Blog

I'm currently sitting in coventry waiting for my gig to start. I'm in my car and posting through by new phone. I'm actually suprised at how good the internet access is and i'll be interested to see how this post looks on normal computers. Providing it comes out okay …

Sound On Sound

on sound on sound on sound

Now I've got my money back from Turnkey it's party time! But what to buy?

I've done some research on how I can turn my macbook a portable studio. I only know the basics when it comes to recording and at this early stage in my career I have …

Cash Back!!!

It's been 3 months but I've finally got my money back from Turnkey. I bought a mic and and interface from them in May and then things went wrong.

On the upside I now have the money to try again. That means Podcast, Voice-overs and instrument recordings. Winner!

Hear My Recordings

Just to make sure that my site is nice and easy to navigate around I've installed a new bar.

Unexpected Delay

Unfortunately something has come up that's stopped me from posting properly today. I'll make up for it by posting something special tomorrow!! I might even put up a teaser from Eurobusk 07 - The more I work on it the better it gets.

Gigs, Exams and Gigs

This past week has been crazy busy! I've been to see my older kids play in their final concert at school, seen others through their ABRSM exams and had a heavy weekend of gigs on top of that. I have loads to post but that will have to wait until tomorrow.

I've driven …

The Eurobusk 07 Documentary Grows Closer

I've spent many hours this week finalizing and converting over 200 video clips form Eurobusk Tour. Finally I put them all into my mac and looked on in despair at the 15 hours of footage I had.

Many hours later I was left with enough footage to fill a feature length …

Sidekick Found!! (2)

Got him! I think he must be doing a tour of the Classic Jazz Albums.

Thanks to Alicia who found him within the fits couple of hours that he was missing. I found him there on friday but thought I should

Goodness Gracious... Great Car On Fire

No one was injured in the following picture

This was a sight to see on the motor way. It's worried me to know that cars can do this outside of the movies. Mainly because I'm running mine into the ground. Lets hope it doesn't reach a similar end (at least not whilst I'm in it!).

Inappropriate Improvistion

I've been playing for Indian Weddings for a few years now but this year the work has really picked up with these gigs. They're not the toughest or the most typical gigs you'll ever do but these days we have a great group of musicians and make a ace show.

I've had a …