The album is a journey

April 18, 2021

I know you own a copy of Kind of blue. Hopefully it’s placed alphabetically under D for Davis, and you’ll be able to find it quickly. Go on, locate it and Read the full article…

Early plans for the year

January 9, 2019

This post isn’t about resolution though so much as things in the pipeline. There are a few jolly performance bookings made, and there’ll be more about them by and by. Read the full article…

Telling the truth

October 28, 2018

Last evening, I gave a truly awful performance. I was playing solo piano at the Jazzlab, and the gig was important to me because I had organised it in order Read the full article…

Memory, nostalgia, sentimentality

March 12, 2018

What do you think when you hear Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings? Driving back and forth across Philip Island, on a break to celebrate your brother’s birthday, having it running on Read the full article…

They changed me

June 20, 2017

‘Morning, listeners. Bit late starting. Sorry. Here’s the Flaming Groovies.’ – Helen Garner, ‘Did he pay?’ from Postcards from Surfers As an incurable romantic, and a sort of delusional lazybones, my Read the full article…