Melbourne Jazz Festival

We drove down to Melbourne for the Jazz Festival last week complete with film gear, a double bass, keyboards and an alto sax plus my brand new Nikon D300s which was couriered to me the night before we left! I should have taken a photo of the 4WD piled high with gear, but the camera was so newly out of the box that it sat on my knee for most of the trip. I love it! 

We filmed the Mothership with John Hollenbeck and Theo Bleckmann, rehearsing at Bennetts Lane, performing at the BMW Edge space and then again at the Basement in Sydney. The Mothership is a fantastic orchestra - go hear them when they play next.

We also saw Charles Lloyd with Zakkir Hussain and drummer Eric Harland. Pure magic!


PS Buy all your music from Birdland in Sydney www.birdland.com.au

The quintessential Crab Sandwich

I was driving to Port Douglas recently and stopped in a little town which had a welcoming cafe and – great excitement – a board listing crab sandwiches as one of the specialities. I grew up on the border of Devon and Cornwall in the UK and visits to the Cornish coast were frequent, which is where I developed my taste for crab. Nothing seems to come close to the succulent sandwiches available there which, made properly, are heavenly.

The key, I was reminded when I mentioned crab sandwiches to the wonderful Valli Little of Delicious Magazine, is the use of both dark and light crab meat. So I am off to experiment again and see if I can produce the quintessential crab sandwich ....watch this space ...

Chocolate update

" the possibility that chocolate could causally contribute to depressed mood, driving the association, cannot be excluded"


http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/wellness/Chocolate-is-linked-to-depression-Study/Article1-536403.aspx