I am extremely proud to announce that my new album with my glorious band MY IRIS is coming out on Greenleaf Music, directed by Dave Douglas, on April 22nd! You can now view/pre-order the album on Bandcamp. And here’s a news post on the Greenleaf Music website. Huge thank you to Chris Montague, Ross Stanley […]

Coming up next month… Ross & I will be playing two concerts… the first on February 17th at the Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall for their Late Night Jazz series (9.30pm start), tickets here. Then on February 25th we’re playing at Shrewsbury School (Maidment Building) for the Shropshire Music Trust (7.30pm). Tickets here. Programme includes […]

MY IRIS have now recorded a new album at Livingston Studios in north London (see photos below)… and now we’re in the mixing phase… I can’t announce much more at this stage, but I am very excited about what we got down, and I can’t wait to share it with you all in due course. […]

More live performances are emerging… I’m playing duo with Ross Stanley for Cadogan Hall’s returning lunchtime series on August 10th… gig starts at midday, 2 sets. You have to pre-book for Covid safety reasons, but it’s free to stand, and then £5 to sit. Info here. Ross and I have also just recorded a duo album at Wigmore Hall (huge […]

Streaming tonight at 7pm on YouTube & Facebook… MY IRIS recorded a set for Jazzlines at Symphony Hall in Birmingham last month & now you can hear the results! The sound in the hall is phenomenal… Nearly all new music, ahead of our next recording, so this is a bit of a preview… Big thanks […]

Exciting news…!! At the end of August MY IRIS will be recording a new album at Livingston studios in north London. Despite a very strange year, we’ve managed to develop an album’s worth of new material over the various streams and gigs we’ve done for the 606 Club, Guildford Jazz, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Guildhall […]

Last night I had the most incredible experience playing a livestream from Wigmore Hall with Ross Stanley… and earlier yesterday it was announced that I have been appointed as an Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall…! So I am floating today, as I was during our performance… it was so magical to be in that acoustic […]

Very excited to announce that I’ll be playing at Wigmore Hall with Ross Stanley on April 13th (7.30pm)… Programme includes our own compositions plus arrangements of a whole range of music including the ‘Sleep’ Vivaldi project I did with Orchestra of the Swan, Joe Cutler’s Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii, a Marcel Dupré prelude, some Ellington… full […]

Here are some fabulous shots taken by Monika S. Jakubowska of our gig last night… if you’d like to watch back the gig, click here … such a wonderful evening – so much fun!! Huge thanks to Louise McMonagle, Lauren Kinsella, Ross Stanley, Chris Montague, James Maddren, the whole team at Ronnie’s and Women in […]

Pretty excited to say I’m going to be presenting MY IRIS – usual dream-team of Chris Montague, Ross Stanley & James Maddren – at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club for the first time on March 8th for International Women’s Day … with special guests vocalist Lauren Kinsella and cellist Louise McMonagle. Kinsella is an utterly unique […]