Charles had been invited to join Mr Delight and the Travelling Blues Orchestra after a jam session broke out at a Macclesfield bar.
"It was a quiet night and Steve and other Steve [Taylor, the double bassist] were playing… I was really getting into the music — Steve's voice is just brilliant for blues — so I just asked whether I could join them on the bar's baby grand. We had a great time!"
"The wonderful thing about blues is that anyone can add their own influences into it a...
WELCOME to my new website! Do come in! Yes, please wipe your feet, it's a new carpet. Thank you. Sorry if you had trouble finding us, the address is quite complicated; we are sorting that out.
You're welcome to have a look around. You should be able to find everything that was on the old website, as well as a few extra things, including my gigs, events, tunes, bands, waffling, and, naturally, bookability for begiggment and lessonitude of the piano variety.
Alan Tomkinson has had a rather eventful life. As well as being a musician and songwriter who wrote and performed with some global music stars, he's b...
Bafflingly true
10 Dec 2019
The Big Sound: Piano Performance Courses
3 Sep 2018
New Years’ resolutions are a bit silly. To begin with, the first of January is a stupid and arbitrary date to start making new commitments. It is emph...
