**UK Jazz Radio Official Launch Monday 12 October **

Internet radio station UKJazzRadio.com will lauch on Monday 12 October

Great jazz will be broadcast around the clock. Steve has recorded a piano hour, first broadcast is at 9pm on Saturday 26 September. Listen now and check out the site.

Esther Miller’s new album Into The Sunlight is now out on Tristan Records.
Steve played piano and keyboards, and arranged and directed much of the music on this recording, in collaboration with Esther. Three of Steve’s compositions are included: Just For Love, with lyrics by Tina May, a blues called What About Us?, lyrics by Esther and Steve, and the title track Into The Sunlight, with lyrics by Helen Williams.

Steve is looking forward to the release of a new recording by young vocalist
Andi Hopgood. Geoff Gascoyne plays bass and also did most of the arrangements, and Sebastiaan De Krom is on drums. The recording should be out mid-2009.

**The New Couriers have recently released their new album.
It was recorded live at the 606 Club and the title track, Brazilian Thoroughfare, was written by Steve.

An album 50 Journeys, by Alan Skidmore’s Ubizo is now on sale from Provocateur Records. Steve composed three tracks and played piano and a some keyboard and joined in with some percussion!

In 2008 Steve released some trio tracks dating from the mid-1980’s.
The Temple Session by the Steve Melling Trio is with Alec Dankworth
on bass and Clark Tracey on drums.