Relentless groove + blowing + transition  sight-reading new music Embrace the process.  #composersworkshopbigband #bigband #composition #newmusic #process #InTheShed #Burt&Velma #PijinStrut

I remember I used to have a tape of a live broadcast in which the DJ introduced Count Basie as ‘The man who gets more music from less* notes than anyone else’ I just saw a video of a pianist who gets less music from more notes than anyone else. *sic

#TBT #GULGOLETH rehearsing for our Abbey Road session in 2020, with this Baritone Guitar feature about a ceramic drag penguin.  Huge love for these awesome cats.  #composer #composition  #AbbeyRoadSession #MossFreed #ElliotGalvin #OttoWillberg #JayDavis

Chart Maps for 4 recent new works for big band.  All inspired by birds, I meet along the way.  #bigband #composition #newbigbandmusic #bigbandarranging #contemporarybigband #newmusic

Early start. Off to do a workshop outside of London. There isn’t enough coffee and the white in my beard seems greater than it did yesterday. #jazz #jazzeducation #improvisation #composer #trumpetplayer

#TBT The #SpikeOrchestra at the Purcell Rooms as part of the #PRSFoundation #newmusicbiennial in 2019 playing The Pink Shagpile Carpet Story AKA The King of Spank love these cats, love this music. Music I wrote that year that became our 2020 #Tzadik album #SplinteredStories

Your complaints about Tower Records are misguided. They supported the music ecosystem, and were part of the solution—not causing problems. You forget that Tower Records was in the music business—the company sold records, it supported the music economy, it promoted new artists,

Imagine it’s your parliament filled with fear-mongering, hysterical populists, peddling age-old hateful rhetoric, aimed to divide and stoke up division rather than offer hope and solutions. Doesn’t all seem so harmless now does it?

Early Hot Jazz Greats by R. Crumb

Massive month ahead this April at OTO Come see some amazing music! cafeoto.co.uk/events

On the 13th of April Cafe OTO will turn 17. For us to be able to celebrate our 20th Birthday and beyond we need your help. 👉 cafeoto.co.uk/cafe-oto-needs…

Sending happiness and best wishes to all Gooners celebrating Passover ❤️

CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE. THE ONLY IN THE LAND ❤️

We’re over 50% to our goal, and one week to go. Hear from Sam Eastmond , our esteemed JMI YBB Artistic Director. We have some very exciting news to share very soon. Support the Big Band’s future. justgiving.com/page/jmi-summe…

I told you we’d be back

MEL BROOKS and his wife ANNE BANCROFT singing Sweet Georgia Brown... in Polish.

The first time was so nice...