Fragments 3

Instrumentation: Solo Trumpet

Composition date: 2025

Duration: 3 minutes

First performance: Imogen Whitehead will give the premiere of Fragments 3 on the 5th November, 2025, at the Wimbledon Music Festival

This piece is my acknowledgement of the influence of the trumpeter Miles Davis (1926 -  1991) on my music, both on my compositions and my jazz style as a guitarist. As strange as this may sound, I was always influenced as much by the space Miles left in  his improvisations as the notes themselves. Jazz, especially in the be-bop era, was a style  that involved a lot of notes - often played very fast! - but Miles always seemed to be  searching for a cooler approach, and the space in between the notes becomes a  statement as much as the music itself.