European Tour
I’ll be touring with Carleen Anderson throughout Europe in 2006
Summer School Teaching
I’ll be teaching on the Glamorgan Summer School – 24th to 28th of July ’06.
I’m doing two guitar clinics at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Course on the 1st and 3rd of August 06.
Teaching at Burnley Mechanics Summer School. From the 7th to the 11th of August ’06 I’ll be teaching on this course. It will be for piano, guitar, bass and drums only. Specifically for duos and trios this week seeks to offer opportunities for rhythm section instrumentalists who enjoy the challenges and freedoms of playing in more intimate settings (piano/bass/drums or guitar/bass/drums for instance).
Tutors: Piano/Wig – Les Chisnall, Guitar/Advanced Wig – Mike Outram, Bass/Hotel/Fuhrer – Steve Berry, Drums/Killer Bee Keeper – Dave Walsh.
Here are some pictures from Burnley. It went well! Judging from the pic I’d say the students aren’t really getting it, but hey! that’s why WE’RE the teachers. Eat Lead Suckers!)
From October ’05 to March ’06 I led a composition/improvisation workshop for 20 A level students.
This project started out as a commission by the good people at the Riverhouse Barn in Walton-on-Thames to involve 20 A-level students from Esher College and Hinchley Wood School to each produce a composition which had scope for improvisation and would be played by my trio.
I decided to get Milo Fell and Tony Woods on board so we had a slightly unusual line-up of guitar, saxophone and drums and we held four workshops at the barn where we demonstrated various compositional devices used in a jazz performance and played and discussed the students’ compositions and they, in turn, developed their pieces over the course of six months from October ’05 to March ’06.
This culminated in a performance of their music at Esher College. We were also commissioned to write some music based on an exhibition by the Brazilian artist Ana Maria Pacheco and asked to play at the Riverhouse Barn’s first ever lunchtime jazz concert.
Here are some more photos of the first workshop, the evening concert and some of the pictures that inspired our new music.
