A selection of past work from 1969

1969-1971

DELIVERY. Lol Coxhill, Roy Babbington, Phil and Steve Miller and Pip Pyle. First album and first experience of writing original material.

Recently re released on Cuneiform.

1972

Uncle Dog.Played at the first Festival at Glastonbury.Album included musicians such as The Average White Band horns and Paul Kossoff, late of Free.

During the mid-seventies worked with The London Boogie Band. This included Henry McCullough, Neil Hubbard, Mel Collins, Komoko Singers, Paul Carrack and other musicians.

1974

Recorded Warm Blood in Nashville with Kenny Buttrey, Ron Cornelius, Mack Gayden, Bob Wilson and Tommy Cogbill among the musicians on the project.

1975

Recorded Carol Grimes in Memphis... with Duck Dunn, Willie Hall, Frederick Knight, The Memphis Horns and The Brecker Brothers, among others.

1980

Recorded Sweet FA in Sweden with Ollie Marland, Tony Hicks, Gary Twigg and Peter Kirtley.

1981

Recorded a single for Polydor with The Blockheads, formally Ian Dury's band.

1980's

Worked with several bands in London including: Carol and The Crocodiles; Guest stars; Eyes Wide Open. Musicians included: Steve Lodder, Maciek Hrybowicz, Angele Velmiejer, Mike Bradley, Paul Neiman, Josephina Cupido and Mario Castronari Sami el Sahid among others.

1986

The Drill Hall Arts Centre London.

Wrote and directed Lipstick and Lights A music theatre production, with Eyes wide Open. Guests included John Hegley & Josephina Cupido.

1986-87

Two Jazz Services tours with Eyes Wide Open.

1987

Second show at the Drill Hall Arts Centre, Daydreams and Danger. Poetry & Song. Live album from this show released in1988.

Recorded, two albums with Eyes Wide Open.

1988

Performed in Viv Stanshall's Stinkfoot with Ian Shaw. At the Bloomsbury Theatre.London.

1990

Recorded Lazy Blue Eyes with Ian Shaw, Tony Remy and Steve Lodder.

1992

Project with Laka Dasical. 6 voices and a double bass. London Jazz Festival. Cabot Hall. and other venues.

1993

Toured with Janette Mason, and Band. The Blackheath Concert Hall broadcast on Radio 3.

1993

Recorded Alive at Ronnie Scott's during a residency at the club.

1994

Autumn. Raag, Rhythm and Rhyme with Najma Akhter, Janette Mason, Sammy Sami El Saldhid, Josefina Cupido and Inderjit Kalyana. Live concert from The Guinness Spot, Queens College Belfast featured on Jools Holland Later for BBC2.

Performed regularly on various radio and television programmes throughout the seventies and eighties& nineties. Toured throughout West and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and America. Worked on many sessions for various recording artists.

1996

Took part in a production called Hotel, written by Orlando Gough, libretto by Caryl Churchill. Directed by Ian Spink for Second Stride. Toured U.K. and Europe April/ May 1997.

Participated in 3 weeks of workshops with DV8 Physical Theatre.

1996

Tour with Niki Isles, Mike Walker, among others in Yorkshire & the Northeast.

1998

UK Performances with Janette Mason, Louis de Almeida, Paul Jaysinga and others.

1998

Appeared in a Music Theatre Performance The Shouting Fence written by Orlando Gough. South Bank, London.

1998

Improvised Performances with Mashu. Mark Hewins and Shyamal Maitra.

London Jazz Festival. Lauderdale House and the Vortex. London.