We had an absolutely fantastic time last weekend recording the Wild Flower Sextet album with the help of Barkley McKay at Leeds College of Music. I’ve been listening back to the unmixed tracks and I’m really excited to get them mixed and mastered and get them out into the world!

You can listen to an unmixed sneak preview of the outro of ‘J.G.’ on my Soundcloud here:

Thanks so much to all of our backers so far for the crowdfunding campaign also. We’ve raised £546 which will be so helpful in meeting all of the costs involved in making the record. There is still 24hrs left to get involved at http://www.sponsume.com/project/wild-flower-sextet-album.

The Wild Flower Sextet crowdfunding campaign is still going strong, with 57% (£426) raised so far and a couple of weeks to go.

Thanks so much to our backers so far Tom Barber, James Bull, Jeremy Bye, William Powell, Alan Howell, John Marley, John Warren, Will Barber, Caroline Anderson, Michael Anderson, Lesley Jeffries, Toby Cosmo Archer, Trevor Prinn, Richard Armstrong and Gwen Hanson.

I can’t wait to start setting up for the recording at Leeds College of Music a week today – very exciting stuff! Now, back to practising the material…

Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed to our Sponsume campaign so far for the Wild Flower Sextet – we’re up to £216 already! A full list of names will follow soon but for now check out our progress or get involved by following the link at http://www.sponsume.com/project/wild-flower-sextet-album or clicking in the box on the right.

If you are in Newcastle do come along to a fundraiser I’m involved with tomorrow for Jazz North East. I’m playing first in a quartet with Lloyd Wright (guitar), Mick Shoulder (bass) and Adam Sinclair (drums) at The Bridge from 2pm, then in a quintet with Simon Spillet (sax), Paul Edis (piano) and again Mick and Adam on bass and drums at The Jazz Cafe at 4pm. There are lots of great bands on all day, so it’ll be well worth a visit.