Matt Roberts’ Tribute to Miles Davis is doing a string of dates in Leeds over the weekend of the 18th June: we’ve got Wakefield Jazz (17th), HEART in Headingley (18th), 7arts (19th) and Sela Bar (20th) in what promises to be a very enjoyable few days for us. Fears of over-exposure may be dispelled by news that we will be using different tunes/approaches and focusing on different periods of Miles’ career up to ’67 for all four dates. See the gig calendar for more details…

The band is:

Matt Roberts – trumpet, Matt Anderson – tenor, George Grant – alto, Sam Watts – piano, John Marley – double-bass and Sam Gardner – drums.

Tomorrow evening sees the start of the Matt Anderson Quartet’s regional tour, sponsored by Jazz Yorkshire as part of their ‘Futures’ scheme. The first date is Wakefield Jazz alongside Aron Kyne’s ‘Yoruba,’ and other dates include Jazz at the Priestley (15th April), The Coliseum (21st April), The Phoenix (26th April) and 7arts (1st May) – see the gig calendar for more info.

My composition ‘The Crunch’ was recently recorded by Birmingham Conservatoire students Euan Palmer, Tobie Carpenter, Chris Young and Hamish Livingstone – you can listen to it below: