Clowns Pocket Recording Studio

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Sax Appeal Leader duo Fri 5th May

Just seen this in a review - Very nice!!! The album “New Beginning” is strongly recommended, a set of original tunes with their origins in the bebop tradition but fully attuned to more contemporary developments and delivered by a group of startling young talents. The album was recorded to the highest technical standards at Derek Nash’s Clowns Pocket Studio with the proprietor’s engineering and production skills helping to create the kind of pinpoint mix we have come to expect from him.
http://www.thejazzmann.com/…/samuel-eag les-quartet-mf-jazz…/

Day of Beautiful music with Trevor Tompkins - Drums, John Horler - Piano and Tim Wells - Bass. Effortless from all

Sax Appeal leader Derek Nash plays Latin tonight, Wed 11th Jan with PICANTE+ superstar Trumpet player Chris Storr (Jools Holland, Gregory Porter) at the Belvedere Jazz & Music Club Address: Chichester Hotel, Old London Rd, Rawreth, Nr. Wickford SS11 8UE Phone: 07850 607075

SAX APPEAL QUARTET OUT TONIGHT 16th Nov -
Now transferred from the Woodman, to it's new home in Knockholt Kent, the Sax Appeal Quartet features the A team rhythm section of Pete Adams - keys, Phil Scragg - Bass and Mike Bradley - Drums. Wed 16th Nov at 8pm. With Our Host John Charles Levett and The Listening Room Music Agency

©Roger Thomas - mingus999@hotmail.com / Adrian Reid - Album Recoding Session - Clowns Pocket Recording Studio, Tues 11th August 2015 / Adrian Reid - piano / Tony Kofi - saxes / Josie Reid - vocals / Rod Youngs - drums / Larry Bartley - bass

Peter Jones – Utopia (Howlin’ Werewolf HW002, CD review by Mark McKergow)
The sound recording is really top-class throughout – the band just seemed to leap out of the speakers on my very modest setup, so engineer Derek Nash can be very pleased with his work. Taken all in all, this is a great collection and a marvellous exhibition of the kind of talent we are lucky enough to have on our doorsteps here in London.

GREAT REVIEW for CD Recorded at Clowns Pocket Recording studios Peter Jones album launch Peter Jones – Utopia (Howlin’ Werewolf HW002, CD review by Mark McKergow)
London-based vocalist and lyricist Peter Jones’s second venture in the recording studio produces a fine collection of swinging jazz with great solos, some nice surprises and a superb sound.
... Let’s start with the surprises. Jones has added his own lyrics to some classic instrumental jazz tunes, with good results. Stanley Turrentine’s Sugar is rendered even more atmospheric than the 1971 original, with Jones’s smooth baritone paving the way for a snappy double time guitar solo from Nigel Price. Henry Lowther, one of the most undersung of our trumpeters, then hits the mark squarely before Neil Angilley takes a lolloping turn on Fender Rhodes. One of the absolute pleasures of this collection is that with musicians of this calibre lurking in the background and waiting to spring out, every track is an adventure.
Pinging piano strings make a mysterious introduction to Love Theme from Chinatown. Jones’s lyrics to this instrumental ballad from the Jack Nicholson/Faye Dunaway movie add another dimension to a great melody and surely pave the way for us to hear it more often. Taking the pace to the other end of the spectrum, John Coltrane’s Impressions forms the basis for an urgent song about being on the run, before the soloists jump at the chance to show their mettle. Misha Mullov-Abbado’s double bass gives great underpinning here before getting his own solo spot. The fact that these original lyrics sit so well against the other songs is testament to Jones’ jazz sensibilities and skill.
The more established songs don’t disappoint either. Donald Fagen’s Maxine is given an uptempo swinging treatment with Davide Giovannini’s drum introduction setting the pace before Jones’ vocal and another particularly sparkling piano solo from Angilley. There are several ballads on the album, which seem to me to show off Jones’ voice particularly well. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most really ups the melancholy, with delicate acoustic guitar work from Nigel Price. Jones is also prepared to take on Sinatra, with a lovely extended reading of It Was A Very Good Year. There’s A Lull In My Life has space for Lowther’s trumpet to stretch out with magnificent results.
The sound recording is really top-class throughout – the band just seemed to leap out of the speakers on my very modest setup, so engineer Derek Nash can be very pleased with his work. Taken all in all, this is a great collection and a marvellous exhibition of the kind of talent we are lucky enough to have on our doorsteps here in London.
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Looking forward to a great days recording with Kevin McMahon - Sax, Dominic Ashworth - Guitar, Dave Chamberline - Bass, Matt Home - Drums, and Steve Ashworth - Piano, the joint will be swinging!

Recording the Clark Tracey Quintet today, excellent playing from Henry Armberg-Jennings, Harry Bolt, Chris Maddock and Daniel Casimir , pure Blue Note and beyond.

Recorded at Clowns Pocket Recording Studio, very proud to have been involved with this fantastic CD Here's a sampler video for vocalist Jo Doolan's upcoming album 'Dream of a Dream' https://t.co/qx3B9dT7AQ