That Jazz Anomaly

The Turquoise Dreams LP is the jazz anomaly in my repertoire.

I went to Havana with my family, had one of the best holidays of my life.

I wrote some tunes whilst I was there. Came back home, set up a music-for-film company, brought in some of my favourite musicians like Otis whose mesmerising guitar work features on Nomads LP and 24900 Miles From Home LP and Kev Howard on didg (who also takes most of my portraits).

The recording sessions produced well-known tracks Moneda Funk in the Green Room and The Beholder Live. The rest of the Afro-Cuban tracks became the album I called Turquoise Dreams, named because all the music was recorded in the Green Room Studio and whilst in Cuba, my 11-year-old son had all the holiday kids partying and drinking Blue Lemonades by the swimming pool – the blue colour was due to the shots of blue Curaçao liqueur. He only discovered it was alcoholic on the last day when a new barman arrived.