After Christmas there is usually a dead period for any jazz pianist (or any other musician for that matter) which lasts about two weeks - so you can imagine my surprise when I ended up playing for two weddings on the Tuesday straight after the Christmas weekend. The first one was at the Savill Court Hotel in Egham and I played solo jazz piano while the second one was at The Old Ship Hotel in Brighton and that involved working with the ever popular Alice Harvey on vocals and David Silk on bass.

It's not unusual to have two weddings on the same day but it's not what you expect at this time of year. Christmas has been more hectic than ever this year.