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  • Pre-Order Yorkshire Suite

    I’ve once again been busy digging through my old hard drives and cobbled together something that almost sounds like a record. Back in 2014 I was commissioned to write a suite of music by Jazz Yorkshire for the Yorkshire Festival, it was recorded live in 7Arts in 2015 and it’s taken a global pandemic to…

  • This one’s for the recording nerds – Part 1

    Last week I had a chat with Barkley McKay from Valley Wood Studio. Barkley has recorded and mixed my first two jazz orchestra albums and kindly took the time out to chat about his approach to working on them. In part 1 we talk about the prep, setup and tracking decisions for these recording sessions.…

  • The idiots guide to recording a big band

    Over the course of 2013 I’ll be getting the James Hamilton Jazz Orchestra together for one off day sessions to record…….stuff……some of which has been written some of which has definitely not. I’ll be blogging about the process as we go through the ups and downs of writing for, organising and recording a jazz orchestra.…