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British manager, compilation/album executive producer, reissue consultant and compiler.

Higgins has advised on and written sleeve notes for several reissue labels including Ascensionale, Eating Standing Publishing, seriE.WOC and BBE.

In 2007, Higgins worked with Emmylou Harris, producing a live concert film, shot in Los Angeles, titled Emmylou Harris 10 Commandments of Country.

Along with Mike Peden, Higgins co-compiled the compilation [m=1319883] (2018) for BBE and has co-curated the BBE J Jazz Masterclass Series specialising in reissuing rare Japanese jazz from the 1960s to 1980s. He is also Exec Producer for the Decca/Universal British Jazz Explosion series.

Higgins has also worked on several TV documentaries including a number of BBC projects such as 'Jazz Britannia', 'Girls & Boys: Sex and British Pop', 'Seven Ages of Rock', 'Kings of Rock and Roll', and has also written for specialist music and national press.

APPEARANCES +


Mike Taylor Quartet
Pendulum
2025
Mike Taylor Trio*
Trio
2025
The John Cameron Quartet*
Off Centre
2025
Various
J Jazz (Free And Modern Jazz Albums From Japan 1954 > 1988)
2024, CD, Comp, BBE
Masahiko Satoh & Takeo Moriyama Feat. Leon Brichard & Idris Rahman
Live At Café Oto
2024
The Joe Harriott Quintet*
Movement
2024
Aki Takase Trio
Song For Hope
2024, Vinyl, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Mal Waldron - Terumasa Hino
Reminicent Suite
2024, Vinyl 200 gr, ,
Post Bop/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Roberta Flack
Lost Takes
2023, 2xLP, Album, Gat, Arc Records (13)
Isao Suzuki, Masahiko Togashi, Hideo Ichikawa, Akira Shiomoto
Approach
2023
Various
J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan (Volume 4) (The Nippon Columbia Label 1968-1981)
2023
Tatsuya Nakamura
Locus
2023
Harry Beckett
Flare Up
2023
John Surman / John Warren
Tales Of The Algonquin
2023
Takeo Moriyama
Live At Lovely
2023, ,
Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Modal
Hideyasu Terakawa Quartet Featuring Hiroshi Fujii
Introducing Hideyasu Terakawa Quartet Live Featuring Hiroshi Fujii
2023
Max Roach
Members, Don’t Git Weary
2023
Masaru Imada Trio+1*
Planets (First Planets On Blueroad)
2022, CD, ,
Modal/Post Bop
Yasuhiro Kohno Trio + One*
Song Of Island
2022, ,
Modal/Post Bop/Spiritual Jazz
Shamek Farrah, Norman Person
Live
2022
Koichi Matsukaze Trio Featuring Ryojiro Furusawa
At The Room 427
2022, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz/Post Bop
Masao Nakajima Quartet
Kemo-Sabe
2022
Various
Transient Tones For Timeless Spirits
2021, 2xLP, Comp, Ltd, Num, BBE, Dekantā
Kohsuke Mine
First
2021, 2x Vinyl, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop/Modal
Don Rendell Quintet
Space Walk
2021
Various
J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan (Volume 3)
2021
Steve Kuhn
Steve Kuhn (50th Anniversary Ulla Edition)
2021
The New Jazz Orchestra
Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe
2021,
Jim Marks
Touching Your Feelings
2021
Ken Wheeler* And The John Dankworth Orchestra
Windmill Tilter (The Story Of Don Quixote)
2021,
Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop/Modal/Big Band
Various
Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-1972)
2021, ,
Big Band/Jazz-Rock/Modal/Fusion
Clarence Peters Quartet
The Magnetic Atmospher
2021
Shintaro Quintet
Evolution
2021
Sasaki Hideto - Sekine Toshiyuki Quartet + 1
Stop Over
2020
Tordenskjolds Soldater
Peace
2020
Miyasaka + 5
Animals Garden
2019
Makoto Terashita Meets Harold Land
Topology
2019
Various
J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan 1969-1983 (Volume 2)
2019, 2x CD,
Takeo Moriyama
East Plants
2018
Tohru Aizawa Quartet
Tachibana Vol. 1
2018
Various
J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan 1969-1984
2018, ,
Latin Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Modal/Jazzdance
Koichi Matsukaze Trio + Toshiyuki Daitoku
Earth Mother
2018
Marius Cultier
The Way
2017
Manduka
Manduka
2017
Lopez Ruiz*
B.A. Jazz
2015
Various
Gerardo Frisina Introduces seriE.WOC
2014, CD, Comp, Ltd, seriE.WOC, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Sahib Shihab
Sentiments
2014
Coalition
Birth
2014
Torolf Mølgaard
Lone Rider (Trombone Music)
2014, ,
Bop
Noah Howard Quartetto*
Live At The Swing Club Torino Italy
2014
The Tubby Hayes Quartet*
Mexican Green
2005
Tubby Hayes And The All Stars
Return Visit!
2005
Michael Garrick
Troppo
2004, CD, ,
Modal
The Mike Westbrook Concert Band
Celebration
2004
Tubby Hayes
Tubbs
2004
Gilles Peterson
Impressed 2 With Gilles Peterson (Rare, Classic & Unique Modern Jazz From Britain 1963-74
2004, 2x Vinyl, ,
Jazzdance/Modal
Sinister Footwear
Sinister Footwear
2003, CD, EP, Not On Label
Gilles Peterson
Impressed With Gilles Peterson
2002, ,
Big Band/Modal/Latin Jazz
Heaven 17
Retox / Detox
1998, ,
Techno/Electro/Synth-pop/House/Breakbeat
Christy Moore
Collection Part Two
1997
Eleanor Shanley
Eleanor Shanley
1995
Christy Moore
At The Point Live
1994
Christy Moore
King Puck
1993
Cry Before Dawn
Witness For The World
1989, CD, ,
Pop Rock
Cry Before Dawn
Witness For The World
1989, CD, ,
Pop Rock
Bach* & Buxtehude* - Peter Sweeney
Peter Sweeney At The Organ Of St. Muredach's Cathedral, Ballina
1980, LP, Album, Greenhays Recordings
Spud
Smoking On The Bog
1977