Staying with saxophones, last February the saxophonist Daniel Sclafani gave a second performance of the piece I wrote for him, silence, and the video of that outing is now on the webpage for the piece. Silence embraces the self-contradictoriness of…

An as yet unremarked aspect of 10 to the power 62 is its provenance in my early experience of jazz. For all of my life I have been an avid record buyer – something that probably seems quaint today, but…

The biggest news of the last month or so was the world première of the first section of my epic 10 to the power 62, for saxophone solo and twelve saxophones, which was performed at Northwestern University Chicago on March…

I have blogged before about the strange synchronicities that seem to characterise my composing life. To paraphrase: composing is 90% perspiration, 9% inspiration …and 1% revelation, in the form of performances. That last 1% is usually spread fairly thin for…

It has been a very productive and, from a compositional viewpoint, busy year since last I blogged. So busy in fact that I have continually put off blogging until a quieter moment… which has never come. So I apologise if…