...is nearing completion. Everything's written, and with 3 rehearsals left, look out for a concert on the 3rd or 4th of June...

Ok, so we did the session - 7 tunes in about 3 hours! Not bad, I think. You can hear the standards and some of the other tunes we did under 'Listen' on the right. Most were 'one take wonders', by necessity not design...still, I'm pleased to have got down some of the great music we've been doing over the last couple of months. Have a listen....

So I've only been in London a few months but I've got some interesting things lined up. First of all, I've got a piano trio off the ground with bassist Fulvio Buccafusco and drummer Matt Fisher; we're going into the studio on the 11th to record a bit of what we've been up to over the last couple of months - partly for demos and gigs, and partly because it's good to keep a running record of where you're at... I'll be sure to put the fruits of that session up on the site - it's likely to include a few standards, and then probably at least one of mine and one of Fulvio's tunes, topped by some great Keith Jarrett/Jan Garbarek/Kenny Wheeler 70s ECM things we've been doing. Matt started the thing off by bringing in Kenny Wheeler's 'Smatta' from the Gnu High album, and a few weeks later I transcribed Jarrett/Garbarek's 'Questar' from My Song. I've been listening to a lot of that era in Jarrett's playing recently, and I've got some thoughts on some of those CDs lined up waiting to be made into something coherent. Anyway, it's beautiful, soaring, and deceptively hard music and I think we're getting somewhere with it.
I've got a great project lined up under the watchful eye of composer Issie Barratt too, with the trio above and another piano trio of Pete Edwards (pno), Tom Hanson (bs) and Chris Preece (drms). It's a piece for double piano trio, and it's coming along nicely. Rehearsals are booked and I just have to find a suitable date for the gig (and a venue with two pianos, which probably puts it in Trinity somewhere). Hopefully we'll use the opportunity to showcase some other music by some of the guys and girls on the Masters Course at Trinity too. I'll expand when I know a little more....