Now, when we talk of the greatest sportsman of all time, Muhammad Ali is , quite understandably , the first name thrown into the ring

As I write these words, I can see my dad. He's tangible in the way that you might have a residual image of me in your minds eye as you read these words. We are at our first gig together. The first "pro" gig I ever did. Somewhere in Pimlico. Ita…

...When I began the jazzreloaded project, the web was, of course, in its infancy. Nobody could have predicted Myspace, let alone Meta. but there I was, gigging, by day, and coding HTML by night whilst working in a web hosting environment - whate…

2005.

"A delay is not a denial"

My first ever public performance! You're entering into a different world, and people will henceforth treat you differently, but you're young, so you don't yet know what the difference is...

There was a man called Clive Diaz who came in to our junior school once or twice a week to teach steel pan. A short, fairskinned miserable looking man, he'd been attributed the moniker “monkeyman” from the students, although none were rude or stupid…

Tony, Tony, tone: Jazz Brittannia @ The Barbican 13th Feb 2005

It's been a long time... I shouldn't have left you....without some jazz beats to step to