Hi everyone - thanks for listening. This is where I post some of the stuff I can't post on YouTube, so you'll hear some things here that aren't anywhere else. Thanks for listening!
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Founded in 2015, Stoney Lane is an inventive, independent artist-led record label, growing out of a whole host of musical inventions, collaborations, experiments, friendships and performances, centered around the city of Birmingham, UK. We focus on distinctive and exciting new music and people that we love, venturing wherever the music takes us – often with jazz at its core, yet crossing the eclectic worlds of improvisation to contemporary classical, electronics to world and roots-inspired music.

Stoney Lane supports and develops exceptional young UK musicians, alongside internationally touring and established artists, whilst releasing only a select number of albums each year as we strive to maintain the artistry, adventure and surprise of our records. We still produce lovely physical releases on both CD and vinyl, from limited edition hand pressings to experimental artwork and original design, alongside properly-nurtured HQ audio.

Already the Stoney Lane catalogue is home to recordings featuring the exceptional and thriving talents of Chris Mapp, Hans Koller, Mike Fletcher, Percy Pursglove and Sara Colman, to young musicians burgeoning from Birmingham and beyond, including Alex Woods, Ben Lee, Jonathan Silk, Mark Pringle, Xhosa Cole and Young Pilgrims, to leading lights Arve Henriksen, John O’Gallagher, Stan Sulzmann, Steve Swallow and the NDR Bigband. 

We produce an ongoing live programme of Stoney Lane artists at London's King's Place, and also run the official Cheltenham Jazz Festival record store for the six days of the festival each spring.  In 2020, we co-produced Around The Houses, an online jazz festival and musicians' fundraiser soon after the onset of the pandemic, with dozens of online performances, podcasts and four new commissions premiered with Jazzwise, bringing tens of thousands of views from over 30 countries worldwide.

2023-24 sees the adventurous new Stoney Lane Live series launching in Birmingham, supported by Arts Council England, bringing prominent UK, US and European artists to the city, spanning the musical roots weaving through jazz, improvisation, flamenco, Arabic, Eastern European and Indian music, alongside three new commissions, collaborations with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Flatpack Film Festival and Birmingham City University, and a strong line of musicians from the city playing and recording alongside visiting international artists.

Forthcoming 2023 releases include saxophonist Paul Dunmall’s Big Band recording; a beautiful new duo project from vocalist Sara Colman and pianist Rebecca Nash; the debut from guitarist Steve Banks; young pianist Dave Ferris featuring US guitarist Peter Bernstein; and the long-awaited Far Reaching Dreams of Mortal Souls suite from trumpeter Percy Pursglove.

John Hines & Donna DeVine are modern jazz musicians with an unusual combination of melodic jazz trombone and uniquely contemporary jazz vocals. The breadth of their work represents a liberation from the stereotypical jazz norm: while they are comfortably bringing jazz classic standards to a new generation, they are also embracing quality music of more recent years, including arrangements of some of the most contemporary hits.

 While rooted in a foundation of jazz trombone and female jazz vocals, they play with internationally known trumpet, piano/organ/synthesizer, bass, and percussion artists to create melodic jazz that spans swing, bebop, blues, latin, gospel, second-line, rock, and pop styles. The result is accessible, eclectic, and immensely entertaining.

 The best example of their recent work is available on a landmark CD release, ‘You & I.’ A collection of 10 songs, two of which are never-before-recorded originals, will move and inspire you.


Canadian vocalist, composer and arranger specializing in jazz & creative music. New single “Part I: The Road” is available now for pre-save! (March 22) 🤍🎶 :https://ffm.to/rr92437.OIS 

Latest releases available @ Bandcamp.

Austrian trombonist, euphonium player & composer. C64 & Sid lover, wrote some Amiga modules too. On this page I will mainly post previously unreleased and some very rare recordings of my works.
For official CDs, DVD & digital downloads visit http://www.ats-records.com, iTunes, Amazon, Google Music, CDBaby...



Samuel is a composer, arranger, musical director and performer from Kent. His musical beginnings were with the piano and drum kit, and subsequently guitar and bass guitar. His performing is mostly within jazz, and he has played at many high-profile venues such as The Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, the Adrian Boult Hall, the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, The Leas Cliff Hall and the Maidstone Television Studios. He has played in orchestras, big bands, jazz combos, duos, rock bands and percussion ensembles, alongside singing in massed, church and chamber choirs and a barbershop quartet. 

He started to compose aged around 10, and his arrangements of several jazz tunes have been played by the award winning Ashford Youth Jazz Orchestra, including an inventive arrangement of 'Take the A Train', featured in a concert with the Aurora Orchestra in 2011. He was commissioned in 2011 to write a short ballet piece for the Kent School's Games Cultural Celebration, 'Not as Nature Intended', and continuing with dance music wrote an electronic work, 'One Man, One Dream', based on Martin Luther King's famous speech, for the Highworth School 2012 Dance Show.

In 2013 he was a founding member of the 8pB Theatre Company in "The Lost Gatsby" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, for which he wrote the score, performed on stage and played live piano; the group returned in August 2014 with "The Hollywood 10".

2014 also marked the founding of the Purple Summer Theatre Company (and debut as MD) with director Sophie Sweetland; their first project was a 48hr youth production of Spring Awakening, and success continued with #RENT48 in early January 2015. They are currently planning shows for the next year.

In 2014 Samuel was chosen as Composer in Association for the City Chamber Choir, and his first work in collaboration, 'You Will Soar' was performed in London in early May. After the success of the piece, the choir re-commissioned Samuel for a second piece, 'Nunc Dimittis', which was performed to great acclaim at their Christmas Concert.

Samuel's work at Guildhall has led him to work with the Drama department on South Downs/The Browning Version (dir. Wyn Jones)and Twelfth Night  (dir. Mike Alfreds), found and conduct the new GSMDPops Orchestra, and work closely with Principal Study performers on commissioned works, including his 'Little Piece for Trumpets', premiered by trumpet quartet Tetra at the Dartington Festival 2014 and 'Concertante for Dectet', currently in rehearsal for the Philip Jones Memorial Concert.

His choral work 'A Single Blade of Grass' also achieved 1st place in the Jessica Foxley Young Choral Composer Competition, with a performance in Colne, Lancashire - the piece is now in the choir's repertoire. 

Samuel currently lives in London and studies composition and jazz piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Matthew King and Kate Williams.

For commissions, bookings or any other business, please contact Samuel at samuelwilsonmusic@live.com


Piano song, improvisation and modern jazz writing are the means that Maria Grapsa portrays her journey through the interior. As a classically trained, explorative jazz musician, she empowers her sextet to flow free form through original compositions; steam hard in tenor jazz and intricate, emotionally-charged cinematic ballads. Maria’s Greek roots and folk, middle-East, Latin influences, all meet the jazz tradition in a unique way.

Each performance unites a band at the edge of unfolding discoveries and projects shapes that are round and together – as a unit they defy dynamics from pin drop knife edge solo performances from the horns to roars from the rhythm section. Maria’s band is already making an impact in prestigious venues such as Southbank Centre, Birmingham Symphony Hall and Pizza Express Live Soho. Watch out for the album landing summer 2023.

Jazz composer, arranger and band-leader. Lecturer at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

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