Twenty years of the trio

June 24, 2023

Three years ago my PhD reached its double-decade, and that felt like a bit of a moment. (I still think it reads fairly well, and scholarship has not moved so Read the full article…

Strangers

April 24, 2023

I am a Hitchcock tragic. I have almost all his movies on DVD, and I watch them regularly. I am fanatical about the people with whom he worked – for Read the full article…

We’re getting the band back together

January 18, 2023

Chris Lawson said, ‘I thought the session was really good! But when you left the studio, you looked a bit down.’ He was probably right; I wasn’t sure as I Read the full article…

Monk’s music

August 21, 2019

There was a time when I thought I could be, like, pure jazz. That was the time when I thought such a thing existed, for which I beg forgiveness. I Read the full article…

Seeming right

April 30, 2018

Friends, I hope you had a happy Easter and all that. I mean it’s a few weeks ago and all but still. The school holidays kicked off on Good Friday, Read the full article…