About me

Record executive, web editor, writer, author of 'Level 42: Every Album, Every Song' and musician, responsible for Universal Music's jazz catalogue with a variety of roles including (but not limited to): coordinating physical releases around anniversaries such as Blue Note 80, ECM 50 and Prestige 70; writing all global/in-house marketing content for said releases and other Verve/Concord products; curating/promoting popular jazz playlists, from jazz/funk to Avant-Garde; acting as 'gatekeeper' for jazz in the UMG label group; analysing and promoting milestones/anniversaries for labels' social media campaigns; writing liner notes for Grammy-nominated 'Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool' and countless other CD releases; in short, managing the physical and digital catalogue for many of jazz's crown jewels: Thelonious Monk, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Blakey, Keith Jarrett, John Coltrane, Diana Krall, Gregory Porter etc.

Extensive experience as a musician and writer, collaborator on various music films and documentaries and three years' experience as Jazz FM's Web/Social Media Editor.

Founder of two popular music websites, movingtheriver and soundsofsurprise