Last year, at the annual Hua Hin Jazz Festival the organizers invited me to interview the Brit-funk outfit, Shakatak. They were a great bunch of guys and very kindly allowed me to spend the entire gig on stage to photograph them.

Bass player, George Anderson, recently sent me a copy of his debut solo album, Positivity.  

The back cover features an image I took at the festival. He has also used my B&W images on his  newly revamped website.You can order George’s superb album through Amazon.

Just so you can see what a great job the graphic designers have done, here’s the original image.

Other muscians I have photgraphed and had feature articles published about include reggae star, Jimmy Cliff, the superb Touareg band, Tinariwen, jazz guitarists, Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour, guitarist, Steve Lukather, and jazz drummer, Billy Cobham. Next weekend the musical theme continues. I’m flying off to Sarawak to cover the tremendous Miri International Jazz Festival. Highlights of this year’s two-day event include the legendary James Cotton Blues Band, and Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder.

I’ll also be taking a two-day trip up to Limbang and Lawas in northern Sarawak at the invitation of Sarawak Tourism.

Tell your friends you are going to Sarawak for a holiday and the most likely response will be, “where’s that?” In case you don’t know, Sarawak is Malaysia’s largest state on the land mass once commonly known as Borneo, and now divided into Brunei, Indonesia and Sarawak. It offers a diverse range of experiences for adventurous travellers. I look forward to bringing back some great images of the jazz festival and of northern Sarawak’s more remote areas.