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Site update, April 2023. Album recording, newsletter.

It’s time for a very rare blog post to share some brief and exciting updates. Firstly,…
John Williamson Trio (Alex Hitchcock, Jay Davis) at Hampstead Jazz Club this Thursday 19th May

I’m bringing a trio playing jazz standards and my originals to Hampstead Jazz Club in North…
Wild mushroom diary (Autumn 2020/Winter 2021)

Since the second Covid lockdown here in the UK, I’ve revived a childhood interest and gone…
ISM’s ‘The Empowered Musician’ event

It was a pleasure to participate in a session on music and tech for the Incorporated…
Royal Academy of Music Big Band livestream available for 30 days

For 30 days (from 12 November 2020) you can watch in full, for free, the Royal…
Doing a Masters

I’m pleased to say I’ve just started a Masters in jazz at the Royal Academy of…
Trump lyrics

A while ago the ‘very stable genius’ quote from that STUPID IDIOT TRUMP did the rounds…
Transcription: It’s You (Lee Konitz) from Three Guys

Here’s a rough transcription of Steve Swallow, one my favourite bassists, playing on the album Three…
Crick Institute Summer Student programme

You don’t need to be a biologist to work at the Crick Institute! I’m not. If…
Research publication: Kinetics of symmetry and asymmetry in a phase-separating bilayer membrane

A new paper with Peter Olmsted has just appeared in Physical Review E. Like our recent Soft Matter…