Unreleased recordings
This page contains recordings of concerts or sessions that were never released commercially.
They aren't always of top quality, or the best performances but it seems a shame to just leave them
languishing on a hard drive.
Classical Concert 1998
with Edith Ellis
A concert with Edith Ellis-Piano at Presbyterian Ladies college in 1998. It was at a time when I was mostly playing jazz on a big mouthpiece. I don't even remember what it was. I wanted to see if I could play some classical repertoire with my sound. Tomasz Spiewak came along as I was playing his sonatina, and recorded it on his mini disc recorder and one small microphone. You might even hear my daughter singing in the background at two years of age.
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Clouds on blue
Lok on trumpet, Skov on guitar, Kim on bass. Hayden on recording.
In 2015 I was doing a small theatre show and I was asked to play a small amount of harmonica and trumpet. Trumpet has long been a hobby of mine but I had never given myself a reason to play it every day, with too many other instrument to keep up to standard. It got better with daily practise to the point where I thought maybe it might be fun to record some jazz on it. My friend Skov (Jonathon Skovron, a wonderful guitarist who was also doing the show) encouraged me to do it right away. I asked another friend, Kim May (a wonderful and generous bass player) if he'd like to play. Skov asked his friend and wonderful drummer Hayden Meggit if his home studio was ready to do a test run and it was. A day of recording and we had this bunch of tunes. I would not commercially release it because the trumpet playing is simply not good enough. The other playing is really fine however and it does capture a moment in time in all of our lives.
Solos with orchestra
A few recordings that were broadcast from live concerts
with a big orchestra.
Night prayers Giya Kanchelli 2014
The first time I stood in front of an orchestra and in the presence of a great composer. The recording doesn't capture how softly everyone was playing. I played this from memory. That was the most stressful part actually.
John Psathas concerto
Composed originally for Michael Brecker and feauturing David Jones on drums, the unusual writing included scale suggestions rather than chord symbols to improvise over at a blistering tempo. A pad fell off my sax with ten seconds to go in the piece.
More to come
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