My interests are many and varied, but mostly concerned with music electronic gadgets and computers.

On the music front, I favour the classic jazz of the 20s and 30s, enjoying all types and sizes of bands.

I just LOVE playing those older styles of jazz, and have played everything from Ragtime and New Orleans style, through Chicago and Kansas City styles, the US West Coast stylings of Lu Watters and Turk Murphy etc, and on up to the mainstream era of Bobby Hackett and Ruby Braff.

I've always loved the music of the Clarence Williams small groups, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, and the Jabbo Smith Rhythm Aces - and many others too - and enjoy playing tuba in this sort of band, with someone else leading on trumpet.

Among my favourite musicians are: Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Jabbo Smith, Sharkey Bonnano, Red Nichols, Omer Simeon, Cyrus St Clair, Jelly Roll Morton and many others.

If I was to be marooned on a desert island with only one record album it would be a toss-up between one of my many Red Nichols CDs and the one with Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers playing Black Bottom Stomp and The Chant etc as my admiration for JRM remains undimished.

I love to listen to jazz players of later periods too, such as Bobby Hackett, Bunny Berigan, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker, Ruby Braff and Fats Waller, so my tastes in jazz are quite wide.


I was brought up playing classical piano and love to listen to moving pieces like Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and the Pathetique, but I also like classic ragtime piano and enjoy rags by James Scott, Joseph Lamb and other masters of the ragtime era.

In the late 50s and early 60s I was a rock & roll guitar player in UK, and I still greatly admire my two heroes from that era, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis.

I enjoy putting my old LPs onto CDs and have recently been transferring a lot of my old videotape collection onto DVD too.

On the computing front I've enjoyed learning how to create websites and have done quite a number for jazz friends and colleagues, including Bob Barnard, Janet Seidel, Geoff Power, Cell Block Seven Jazz Band, and others.

After the untimely death of my good friend, Tom Baker, I built a large website to honour his memory and as it was still getting a lot of visitors some eighteen months later I did a complete re-vamp of that site.

That site, and many others, feature on my LINKS pages.