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  • Tête-À-Tête Three

    29 Mar 2017

    Initially this project was to be a series of duet recordings in which I was not always musically involved. One…

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  • The Great Rift • Hornby Island 1992

    24 Aug 2016

    Any number of people, mostly friends and the odd critic or two, have read my memoir Rant & Dawdle, glanced…

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  • Tête-À-Tête Two

    25 Jul 2016

    For the second post in this series I return to my own music — a duet with guitarist Lloyd Garber.…

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  • Tête-À-Tête One

    01 Apr 2016

    Improvising is a difficult art to master, if indeed it’s possible to “master” this form at all. My preference would…

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  • Paul Bley • When Will The Blues Leave

    08 Jan 2016

    PAUL BLEY (November 10th, 1932 – January 3rd, 2016) Bristol 1956 In the back room of the Swan Hotel on…

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  • This Is Our Music

    12 Jun 2015

    Ornette Coleman • March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015 You cannot travel the path until you have become the…

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  • Palindromes • Fall 1988

    18 Nov 2014

    Brief Encounter No. 8 Wolfgang Fuchs/Bill Smith/Evan Parker What shall I call this – The Further Adventures of Colston Q.…

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  • Paul Rutherford • Iskra 1903

    17 Oct 2014

    Brief Encounters #7 Iskra was a political newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants established in December 1900 as the official organ…

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  • English Country Dances…

    18 Jul 2014

    Brief Encounters No. 6 Just as I started thinking about the ending of the last project another package arrived in the…

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  • John Surman • Flashpoint

    08 May 2014

    Brief Encounters #5 It ain’t no use scrolling through the Google street views, it’s all changed, this scruffy industrial district…

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