I play keyboard and saxophone in a band called Bloomfield Avenue and we just did a photo shoot. Looks pretty good, if you ask me. 🙂 You can see us goofing around a bit on a Vine I made. I’m not in that since I’m behind the camera. Anyway, the music is all the hits from the 50’s until today. Check out the web site and like on Facebook.
As a bonus I got some solo photos as well. Here is an example:
I’m playing with a new band – the Voodoo Love Orchestra and I love it! We are 10-15 wind players and 3 percussionists playing Voodoo inspired music from Africa, South America, New Orleans and other places. An amazing face painter makes sure we have the right skullfaces on. You can catch us at The Blind Tiger Club in Brighton 24th Jan or 25th Jan at Movimientos in Bethnal Green.
It’s time to play some jazz again! My beloved jazz quartet “Nybakat!” are doing a tour in Israel after a little warm up gig in Café Mazarin in Bro, Sweden. We have been invited by the festival Jazz Globus in Jerusalem and has tagged on a little tour with gigs in Tel Aviv and Mitzpe Ramon as well. Have a look at the clip below from a concert we did in Sweden Summer 2011.
The album is finally here! After 3 years of recording, mixing, mastering and cover designing the album has now been released through my label DartBird music. Both Maria and I are very proud! Get your downloadable copy below. I will set up a store for the physical CD’s as well but it might take a while. If you are interested in that send me an email at info@dartbirdmusic.com
My wonderful wife got all creative when we got back from our honeymoon and wrote an amazing play about the music and relationship between Billie Holiday and Lester Young. She’s Billie and I’m going to play Lester! It’s probably the first time the world sees a Swedish, bearded Lester Young. It has been so interesting doing the research for this. I have dived deep into his music and I feel like it has made my own jazz playing better. What a great man!
The show has so far only one performance, 3 August at the Jive Monkey in Brighton. Get your tickets here!
Here’s my tune FishBulb from the gig yesterday. Awesome playing by my friends I have to say!
I’m super excited! Tonight I will be playing all my saxophones and clarinets at the Brighton Blue Note together with Paul Richards – Guitar, Jim Whyte – drums and Terry Pack – bass. Since I moved to the UK I haven’t really found an outlet for this material. The jazz I play have mostly been swing with the Magic Numbers and others and standards at the jam sessions. I love doing that and it’s been great exploring the earlier styles but to be able to play some of my own favourite compositions will be something extra. We will play several tunes from my old project Boogaloo B – A Technicolor soundtrack of twist and New Orleans funk and more. It’s 11pm-1am (jazz hours!) underneath the Greenhouse effect, 63 Church Rd, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 2BD.
Read more about it at Paul Richard’s site You can hear some of the music at my old MySpace site
Finally Maria McAteer’s debut single “Brighton Boy” is here! I’m especially proud since I wrote the music and plays a bunch of instruments on the track. Maria of course wrote the beautiful lyrics and sings with her gorgeous voice. Here is the video.
During a limited time you can get the single for free at mariamcateer.com
I’m doing such an amazing show at the Soho Theatre at the moment. It’s an improvised play by three actors who call themselves Cartoon De Salvo and a four-piece band called the Adventurists. The title is given by the audience and then we as a band improvise the score and the actors improvise the story. It’s complete magic. You can book tickets here and read a great review here.
My old friend David (who used to be in a band called The Merrymakers) has been busy recording his Beatles-tinged power pop during the last couple of years. Finally it’s time for the release! I’m really proud to say that he asked me to play keyboards at his London date. Come along to Borderline 31st March and enjoy the Soundshine!
