I’ll be heading out in a couple of hours to play some trad. jazz clarionet at Glossop Jazz Club with The Dixie Beats, in their final gig of the year. But before I do, I thought it would be appropriate to share these pictures of our previous Christmas gig at Eagley Jazz Club on 4th …
This week, I have been mostly practising… The teeny tiny squeaky squawky Eb clarionet! Why have I been doing that, you may wonder? Why put myself and my local community through such torment? Surely any instrument that requires earplugs merely to practise should not be permitted at all in civilised society! Well I’ll tell you …
I scream, you scream, everybody wants… TRAD. JAZZ! That’s the kind of awesome insight you can usually expect from my posts on The Jelly Roll Jazz Band’s Facebook page, however today I’m going to talk about a couple of different bands with whom I’ve been clarinetting recently. Let’s start with a gig I did back …
I don’t often post on here about The Jelly Roll Jazz Band, largely because I put things fairly regularly on the band’s Facebook page and YouTube channel so I somehow feel as though everyone already knows about it! Further thought, however, leads me to believe that this may not in fact be the case, and …
I’ve got to the point now where I’ve played in a fair few musicals, however one that’s doing the rounds at the moment but had eluded me until recently was ‘The Addams Family’. This all changed last month though, when I got the chance to play Reed 2 for the show and find out what …
Alright, before we go any further let me address the elephant in the room. You may have noticed that this blog is looking a little different from usual. Well that’s because, in a frankly thrilling burst of proactivity, I have finally got round to migrating the whole thing from Blogger to WordPress, meaning that it is …
I’m delighted to be making my debut performance with the fantastic Stockport Symphony Orchestra this Saturday (28th) at 7:30 pm in Stockport Town Hall. I’ve been drafted in to play the teeny tiny Eb clarionet for one of the more large-scale works in the symphonic repertoire – come along and watch! But what is the …
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In April 2020 I made a very important promise to the world, and now, almost exactly 2 years later, the time has come for me to fulfil that promise! In my post ‘Transcription Tuesday But On A Wednesday: ‘Shreveport Stomp’, Omer Simeon‘ I said that you should look out for me performing said piece with …
Now that Peter Pan-tomime is officially finished (and believe it or not we managed to get through the full 66-show run without a single cancelled performance!) I think it’s high time I made some attempt to publicise it. So here is a selection of piccies I got over the course of my festive season at …
