I've made a short video introduction to my online teaching, which includes some tips for getting set up to make your lessons most effective.

It seems rare these days to find a commercial organisation actually doing something meaningful to help independent artists like myself -...

"So sonically compelling. What a great suite this is." - Rex Horan, bassist and composer with Ben Watt, Neil Cowley Trio & Laura Marling...

Time for another of the pieces put together by me and members of East London Community Band during the UK Lockdown. This is I Want A Big...

Here's the 2nd piece of work from the ELCB Digital project, in which I co-led 11 weeks on online rehearsals and activities for around 60...

I've just been going back over some old recordings and was reminded of one I made all the way back in 2011, with the big band I was...

Today is a big day for me - I've finally released my first EP! Focusing on music inspired by jazz and Latin America, the 5 tracks of...

Early in the current COVID-19 crisis, I wrote this short piece for voice and body percussion in the Brazilian Samba style, and took it...

For the last few months in my compositions, I've been thinking about how two things: How to write pieces which encourage performers to...

This diagram sums up where the pieces will exist in a continuum between total improvisation (unscripted), totally notated (fully...

My creative plans for if everything gets shut down due to COVID-19.

Lots of arrangements for brass groups and flexible jazz ensemble now available on SMP Press.

What I've been up to 19 Jan - 4 Feb 2020: composing, collaboratings, leading workshops.

Now taking bookings for 1-to-1 tuition in trumpet, trombone, jazz improvisation and music theory, in Walthamstow, East London.

A new video of my piece for Jazz Orchestra/Big Band, DARKMANS, live from the Vortex Jazz Club, London.

How can past recordings help us to explore our own improvising language better? In this post we'll look at some models from Stolen Moments.

In the last week, I’ve been… Adding violin parts to my big band pieces DARKMANS and Four Scenes on L’homme armé to be played by John...

What I've been doing/listening to/reading 6-13 Jan 2020.

As I write this, I'm 30 (and a half), and I've been involved in music more or less full-time since my teens. Along the way I've met and...