Hmmmmmm! Any ideas? I’m currently trying to get together with a pianist/keyboardist and drummer who are looking for a bassist to complete their jazz trio. I can jam with a keyboard player in a living room but having a drum kit usually necessitates a rehearsal space outside a private house …although I wonder if actually […]
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I guess a lot of you heard already but I made a big step on my road to recovery last night. My last gig was at a late night jazz venue in January and after seven months away from gigs it was a relief to return. Yesterday I played a ninety minute rehearsal plus a […]
I blogged this over on Posterous. It was a neat coffee experience. The new Intelligentsia coffee shop in Pasadena opened during my stay in the town recently (August 2010). I had been really looking forward to visiting and I wasn’t let down, though there were a few surprises along the way…….. Intelligentsia Pasadena article (Now […]
OK, the last trip included Taste of Bitter Love Present, Nude Espresso and Climpson and Sons. All were fabulous and I’ve been back to each several times. There were a couple of other Eastern places I’ve been recommending for a while on my map that I’d not tried myself so I had to make another […]
I reviewed the Maciek Pysz trio’s gig at Charlie Wrights. Maciek’s wonderful new trio features the Asaf Sirkis and Mao Yamada I was delighted to hear Maciek Pysz’s new trio at Charlie Wright’s last night. Polish born Maciek composes the beautiful, melodic music that the band plays and leads on acoustic guitar. The new line-up […]
….of coffee. The coffeecognoscenti have been trying to wean us off our milk dependency for a while. Thanks to guys like Gwilym Davies at Prufrock, Londoners are slowly being weaned off their vente milky hazelnut lattes onto shorter milk-based drinks like flat whites and stumpys …then to cortados, macchiatos, piccolos and gibraltars and finally to […]
First published April 2010 The London coffee scene has changed dramatically in the last few years. The emergence of Kiwi and Aussie run/staffed establishments has completely changed the picture – at least in Central and East London. There are pockets of coffee excellence in other parts of London now – the pinnacle being in Exchange […]
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Making great coffee is a real art and I was privileged today to witness a couple of fine baristas in action in an afternoon that was a lovely celebration of coffee and the skill and care which these people put into their art. Yes, coffee might not be the be-all-and-end-all to everyone but it’s always […]
I have uploaded a few tunes from a fabulous gig we did in May 2009. The audio is not fantastic: I recorded straight to mp3 from my beloved Zoom H4 recorder. I played by Wal fretless electric bass and Maciek Pysz is on electric guitar. Kate Hayes is singing and Pierre Hellio is on drums […]
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