20.07.2026
Indigo Days
In the late summer of 1963, ‘Jazz News and Review’, by some measure the most insightful of the tiny handful of British jazz periodicals of the day, published an interview with Tubby Hayes conducted by a young female jazz writer Valerie Wilmer.
10.07.2026
The Ant and the Elephant
Speculating on what exactly makes a successful jazz biography is a game for fools. Readers of jazz histories, like listeners to jazz records, aren’t always after the same thing.
16.06.2026
Where we started
I’m not a great believer in synchronicity. However, every so often circumstances combine in a way which suggests events that are on the face of it purely random may, in fact, have some sort of connective thread.