Corey at the wonderful NoTreble website is looking for bassists to feature in the sites Player Spotlight pages. I was very happy to be featured this month. You can see the article by clicking here It’s a neat site for bassplayers and well worth stopping by. It has lessons, interviews, news and all the features […]
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Ah yes! As of today as I practise my new electric upright I find out I am the featured player in the spotlight at http://www.notreble.com Enjoy!
Coming up so far in October Friday 9th October with “Rock ‘n’ Rollers” at The Underwriter, EC3, London – playing rock and roll, blues and reggae covers. 9pm Friday 16th October with LV Project featuring Pepa Niebla at Jazz After Dark, Greek Street, Soho, London playing jazz, fusion, samba and soul. 10:30pm – 2:30am Friday […]
OK! This month, so far we have: Friday 4th September with LV Project at Jazz After Dark 10:30pm – 2:30am – jazz, funky jazz, groovy jazz, reggae jazz, latin jazz, bossa nova, samba and soul featuring a great quartet with a fine singer. Greek St, Soho, London Sunday 13th September at Gillespie Park Festival in […]
It’s a busy old time with musical friends returning to London from all over the world. For some reason the drummers are last to return so I have the opportunity to play with some new drummers. Upcoming: Friday 28th August: LV Project featuring Susana Lang Lenton, Jazz After Dark, Greek Street, Soho, London. 10:30pm – […]
Over the time of playing I’ve fallen in love with manipulating the shape of notes. Aspiring musicians are often impressed with the speed and athleticism of flash playing but that’s never really moved me. Sure, I dig the sheer joy in the playing of Fats Navarro, Charlie Parker and others but it’s shaping notes that […]
Bass. Music is basically oom-pah or oom-pah-pah and we bassists are responsible for the oom. Truth is in most styles of music it’s pretty similar. We play roots and roots and fifths in so many types of music. It took me ages to realise that the skill in playing bass often came from playing the […]
After a long absence Balkan acoustic melodicists Luna Kalamata are getting back together to play the Gillespie Park festival in North London in September. Luna Kalamata formed to play music that they loved from Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and the Balkans. Later we added Klezmer and other music to the repertoire. Luna Kalamata are a large […]
Here are the July dates for LV Project. We are playing at our regular venue Jazz After Dark in Greek Street Soho. As it says on the tin, it is ‘jazz’ and it is ‘after dark’. We play standard tunes mostly and we interpret them in a meaningful and fresh way. Sometimes that means a […]
Stop Press (Oct 2010): The Furniture Facebook Page seems to have taken off pretty well so there is more mileage in this than I thought: Go to Furniture Facebook Page ——————————————————————————————————————— Original post June 2009 I’ve not really used Facebook as a way to promote music so far. It doesn’t seem to be well-built for […]
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