I have recently become one of the Company Directors for the annual Manchester Jazz Festival. I make regular appeara... more

I have recently become one of the Company Directors for the annual Manchester Jazz Festival. I make regular appearances on the Manchester jazz circuit having played and jammed with many of the local musicians including Mike Walker, Andy Schofield, Iain Dixon (Bryan Ferry), Richard Iles, Luke Flowers (Cinematic Orchestra), Chip Wickham (Badly Drawn Boy), Gavin Barras, Ed Kainyek, and Les Chisnall. I am currently being mentored by local jazz guitar legend Mike Walker and have also been taught by Andy Schofield, Alec Dankworth and Tim Richards. I also blog about jazz, occasionally contribute to Jazzwise magazine and co-host a jazz radio show on Manchester’s ALL FM radio station.

I also work as part of the Research and Development team at UKOLN, a Centre of Excellence in web and digital information technology research. I am currently working on distributed search and repository technologies.

I previously worked for the Learning Technology Services Team which is part of Internet Services