Dates

2012

January

Every Tuesday  - Duet with Al MacSween (Piano) – Seven Arts, Leeds – 19.00

23rd – Quartet with Al MacSween (Piano), Kenny Higgins (Bass), Chris Sykes (Drums) – Sela Bar, Leeds – 9.30

30th – Trio with John Marley (Bass), Joost Hendrickx (Drums) – Sela Bar, Leeds – 8.30

February 

Every Tuesday – Duet with Al MacSween (Piano) – Seven Arts, Leeds – 19.00

March

Every Tuesday – Duet with Al MacSween (Piano) – Seven Arts, Leeds – 19.00

13th – Trio (house band for Jazz Jam @ Miss Brown’s) – Miss Brown’s Coffee House, Chapeltown, Leeds – 19.00

21st – with Chris Morgan Quartet – Charlie Wrights, London – Time(TBC)

22nd – Trio (house band for Full Circle Jam session) – Full Circle, Leeds – 20.00

April

Every Tuesday (unless specified – check for updates) – Duet with Al MacSween (Piano) – Seven Arts, Leeds – 19.00

19th – Trio with Garry Jackson (Bass), Joost Hendrickx (drums) – The Little Buddha Bar, Huddersfield – 8.45

27th - Trio with Garry Jackson (Bass), Joost Hendrickx (drums) – Cafe Lento, Headingly – 19.00

Charlie Parker – Embraceable you – transcription project

Transcribing, learning to sing and play a parker solo. I feel like I got a lot out of this project. Most of all, a deeper appreciation of Parker.

Here is a link to the transcription…

Embraceable you

…and playing with Parker as closely as possible…

…I found doing this helped me to appreciate the incredible rhythmic detail in Parker’s music, speaking of which – here is a pretty special Steve Coleman article about Parker and Rhythm…

THE DOZENS: STEVE COLEMAN ON CHARLIE PARKER

…then improvising in this style, a work in progress…

Moving to Leeds and a new teaching website

Here is the new website to find new students for the teaching practice i’ll be running in Chapel Allerton

www.leedsguitarlessons.com

9.30am at Trinity College

Strange time for jazz! We didn’t get to rehearse for this and it was early. It felt like a cold start which I actually enjoyed. It reminded me of going from a sauna into an ice-pool for some reason? [Ferg Ireland: Bass, Laurance 'the vision' Clack: Drums]

Lennie Groove – Lead Sheet

If anyone is interested in the lead sheet to Mark Turners ‘Lennie Groove’, here it is. Both parts of the melody (sax and piano/guitar) are transcribed here. It took me quite a while to get how this tune worked rhythmically. I’ve had a lot of fun playing this with groups. Flying pentagons batman!!!

Lennie Groove (C)   Lennie Groove (Eflat)    Lennie Groove (Bflat)

Here is the tune performed by Fly trio and also by Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet

Stevie

Here is a gig recorded a few years ago. Enjoying a Stevie Wonder moment