Category: Jazz CD

Jazzy Shorts

By Peter Williams, featuring Jakob Svensson Purchase Jazzy Shorts Purchase Jazzy Shorts as a digital download from Purchase Jazzy Shorts on CD via Gateway Music In the summer of 2008 a few, short, video clips of an acoustic jazz duo received over 100,000 views on YouTube and the attention of American Express with regard to [...]

Grammy Awards Movie Nominees

I am full of anticipatory nerves as I wait to find out if I have contributed to a Grammy winning Album. It was more than enough reward for having worked hard on the swing 41 album that Woody Allen used a track from it. A grammy win would be amazing. http://movieline.com/2012/12/06/grammy-nominations-movies/

Thanks to Søren Svagin of Radio Jazz

I would just like to publicly thank Søren Svagin of Radio Jazz for interviewing me a couple of Mondays ago (28th of January). The focus of the interview was my involvement in the Grammy nominated soundtrack to Woody Allen’s Oscar winning film Midnight in Paris. The selection I contributed was from my Gypsy Jazz CD Swing 41 which is still available [...]

10 facts about Biel Ballester

www.bielballestertrio.com He is one of the best guitarists in Spain He is known for his Gypsy Jazz Style guitar playing He has played with Woody Allen Who said… “This is the closest I’ll ever get to having played with Django Reinhardt” He also wrote and performed much of the music used in the film Vicky [...]

10 things to know about Bert Boeren

I’m on tour with him this weekend in Nakskov, Fanø and Århus! He’s won more awards than you throw a stick at (depending on how good you are at throwing sticks) Amongst other bands he has played with  Eurojazz Big Band, the Swingcats, the Dutch Swing College Band, the Bob Brookmeyer Big Band, and in Bart’s Bones He has been [...]

I am looking for a manager / PA

I am very happily busy as a full time member of the fantastic Paul Harrison Band and do not intend to change that! But, I have several other live and studio projects at very stages of success, some of them still in planning, some of them having made their way into Hollywood, and most somewhere [...]