Jim plays both as a solo musician and in the bands Moonscape, Forever Between, Beyond The Treeline, and Day For Night. He also works as a freelance musician. His music is a combination of acoustic and electronic sounds, using live processing and effects, together with improvisation to create a vibrant sound world. In 2020 Jim recorded an album of original music entitled Forever Between, featuring Attab Haddad (Oud), Richard Bolton (Guitar), Thad Kelly (Bass) and Antonio Romero (Hand Drums) alongside Jim on Trumpet, Flugel, percussion and electronics.
Jim also co-leads the band Moonscape with Luke Annesley, playing original music as a Quartet with Julie Walkington (Double Bass) and Mike Pickering (Drums)
Their website is here https://mail1189.wixsite.com/moonscape
Beyond The Treeline
In 2025 the duo album Beyond The Treeline was released by Elsdon Music, with Julie Walkington playing gongs and percussion and Jim playing trumpet, flugelhorn and electronics. It was an entirely improvised album recorded in one day by Greg Elsdon
"Gorgeous. Rich. Amber-toned. Sensuous, Shimmering. Multi-layered. Just a few of the words you could use to describe this splendid album, which the two players have fashioned from trumpets, gongs, singing bowls, loops, tapes and FX units. The result is a very Hassell-esque set
set of improvised sound collages, rather like a less austere, sunnier version of Thomas Köner's early 1990's work." (Jazzwise Magazine)
https://juliewalkingtonjimhoward.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-treeline
Forever Between - solo
On December 18th 2020 I went to record some solo tunes in St John the Devine, a beautiful church in Camberwell. Filmed by Jon Spaull, this was an fantastic chance to do my first 'gig' since march 2020, although sadly without an audience!
Here are a few of the tunes we recorded, I hope you like them.
They are all on YouTube, please follow link below to see them
Forever Between
"mellow, warm-toned gracefully circuitous long-lined themes"
"The spacey, slowly whispered theme of 'Siya' evokes everything from sunbaked deserts to snowscapes"
(John Fordham - Jazzwise Magazine)
2020 album Forever Between is a mixture of solo trumpet and electronics alongside quintet tunes.
“Drawing on Jazz, world sounds, experiments with electronics, looping and sampling, they paint pictures of travels and adventures in sound”
Beautiful playing from Attab Haddad (Oud), Richard Bolton (Guitar), Thad Kelly (bass) and Ant Romero (hand drums). Mixed by the amazing Alex Bonney and mastered by Peter Beckman.
Please check it out!
moonscape
We are a London based band playing original music. With a long history of playing together in various bands, we use electronics, effects and free playing alongside traditional improvising to experiment with new ways to sound as a chord-less quartet. Recent gigs include Manchester Jazz Festival and The Vortex.