To jazz aficionados, Dave O'Higgins is known as a great saxophonist, recognised as one of the finest British musicians of his generation.
This is some consolation to him since a lot of people will remember him as the bloke who played a busker in The Return of Mr Bean.
Fortunately, O'Higgins has other high-profile performances to his name. His playing on Martin Taylor's instrumental cover version of Robert Palmer's Johnny and Mary - used to advertise the Renault
Clio in Britain - runs the Bean gig a close second, and he also appears on Jamie Cullum's 2002 release Pointless Nostalgic.
He's worked as a sideman with artists such as Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Peter Gabriel, but is
also an accomplished bandleader. Since he last appeared in Hong Kong at the old Jazz Club, he's been busy recording, and gigging, most recently to support his new Jazzizit Records CD In the Zone.
O'Higgins' fast, bebop-influenced playing is music for the head, but also music for the feet, he says. During the past few years he's been working on the road with dancers and would like to see the music he plays for his two shows in Hong Kong this weekend filling the dance floor.