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On tour - Day 3/4/5 and 6
I was almost lulled into a false sense of tranquility with a few days in Sao Paulo. NOW the tour has started! The past few days have been, as was expected, somewhat chaotic. My promise of writing a post everyday after the gig was foolishly hopeful. Of course, when we’re really on the road, then [...]
Continue reading...On tour - Day 2
Overall, great day. Played some tennis with Judy and Dave this morning. We had a rehearsal booked for late morning but couldn’t confirm because the guy that books the studio wasn’t there. Then it was moved to after lunch. Then it was canceled because it was too expensive. Then a deal was set up where [...]
Continue reading...On tour - day 1
The idea is simply to try and give you a brief insight into what it’s like being on the road - and the various obstacles that frequently pop up to make our life just that little bit easier. … In fact, the ONLY reason that we’re all here 2 days earlier than need be (the first show of the tour is Tuesday night) is for the TV show.
Continue reading...Find out what it’s REALLY like on tour
If, as quite often happens, the flights are delayed or the theatre has screwed up the sound check and we end up waiting around for hours on end or there is no food available ANYWHERE after the gig - well, then the posts might not be entirely suitable for younger readers!! … I can’t begin to describe the frustration of having to work SO hard just to get back to a reasonable level of proficiency, let alone anywhere close to level I was in June.
Continue reading...Apologies and updates
First of all, let me apologise for the lack of posts and newsletters. After my trip to New York I came down with pneumonia which knocked me out a bit - in fact I’m still getting over it almost 3 months later. Anyway, that’s no excuse. In fact, you might ask, if I wasn’t doing [...]
Continue reading...Listen in!
After an extremely frustrating few days, I’ve finally finished the ‘Recordings’ page and put up some audio. To cut a very long and tedious story short, I could not work out how to link up the audio files using a plugin that I have. Anyway, with more help from Dino@ewebscapes I (he) sorted it out. [...]
Continue reading...New CD out!!
My new CD ‘Swinging the Changes’ (Arbors Jazz ARCD 19358) is finally out! It features myself with Bob Wilber and my London quartet. At the moment it is available from Arbors Jazz but will probably be on iTunes and other online stores soon. I’m going to be putting up some tracks on the ‘Recordings’ page [...]
Continue reading...The literary reputation of saxophonists.
It seems the reputation of jazz saxophonists has reached the literary world at last. One of the books I am currently reading is ‘Brother Odd’ by Dean Koontz and I quote;
“Saxophone players tend to have an attitude”, I said. “I know a saxophonist who tore a guitar out of another musician’s hands and shot the [...]
Warning:ofensiv, politikaly incorekt post
I flew over from Brazil on Thursday and, as usual, had raydio 4 on the raydio wen I was drivin out of Lundun. One of the subjeks on the program was wether Inglish shood becum fonetik as in sum uther youropian countries (sorry, had to spell that properly for any younger readers!!). Aparently, one in [...]
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