TrumpetBoy

It’s been a good week or so touring around Denmark so far. The show has been well received and, despite long hours on the bus, everybody seems to be getting along ok! The heartening thing for me has been glimpses of life outside of the tour. I’ve had a few communications with home that mean [...]

I’m just back from a splendid evening’s fun playing with my Quartet at HullJazz. We had a really good time with a receptive audience, as it always is over there in East Yorkshire.
My thanks go to the club promoter; Ken Ford, and the guys in the band; Rob Barron (Piano), Tony Faulkner (Drums) and, particularly, [...]

Just to put the word out that I’m playing a couple of gigs with my Jazz Quintet this week! I rarely get to dust off this pad and it’ll be fun to get out to the stage with it again. We’re playing 2 gigs and I’m really pleased with the guys we have in the [...]

Lunchtime Jazz Cartoon
Thanks to Greivsy for passing this one on. It certainly raised a chuckle…
Uploaded by tptboy on 29th July, 2005.

Following the beginning of my CD shopping the other day, I headed back out today to continue. Yet again I picked up many classic albums to replace stuff that got stolen from my house earlier in the year. Also, beautifully, most of them were in the sale for $7!!!
Today’s spree comprised:

“Montreux ‘77″ - Count Basie [...]