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Huw Warren
Huw Warren is a distinguished Welsh jazz musician, composer, and pianist renowned for his boundary-crossing approach to jazz and his unique improvisational style. Born in Swansea, Wales, Warren displayed an early passion for music, which led him to explore various genres including classical, jazz, and contemporary music.
His collaborations with notable artists such as saxophonist Iain Ballamy and singer June Tabor have demonstrated his versatility and innovative approach to jazz. Warren's music often combines jazz with influences from other genres, creating a rich and engaging soundscape.
New album Choro Choro Choro
Warren has released a variety of solo and collaborative albums, some of which were produced by prestigious jazz labels such as ECM Records and CAM Jazz. ECM Records, known for its high-quality production and focus on contemporary jazz, has provided a platform for Warren's work to reach a wider audience. Similarly, CAM Jazz has supported Warren's projects, emphasizing his talent for blending jazz with other musical influences.
In addition to his performance career, Huw Warren has been actively involved in music education, participating in workshops and educational projects to inspire and mentor emerging musicians. His commitment to teaching has made a significant impact on the jazz community, fostering a new generation of musicians.
Warren's contributions to jazz, through his performances, compositions, and collaborations, have earned him a respected place in the music world. His association with acclaimed labels like ECM Records and CAM Jazz underscores his prominence in the contemporary jazz scene. With a career marked by creativity and versatility, Huw Warren continues to be an influential figure in the world of jazz.
New album Choro Choro Choro https://huwwarren.bandcamp.com/album/choro-choro-choro
Awards
BBC Jazz award for Innovation 2004
Arts Council of Waless - Creative Wales Award 2005
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Huw Warren: Global Music from a Local Perspective
by Jakob Baekgaard
Welsh pianist and composer, Huw Warren, has been an important voice on the British jazz scene for many years. With a seemingly endless appetite for music, Warren has both been delving into Brazilian music with singer Maria Pia de Vito and played ethereal folk-inspired jazz music with another singer, June Tabor, in the trio Quercus. He has also worked as Tabor's musical director for many years. Aside from his many gigs as a sideman, Warren is teaching ...
read moreJune Tabor / Iain Ballamy / Huw Warren: Quercus
by John Kelman
Awaiting release for more than seven years, Quercus is not the first time ECM has branched into the realm of traditional British music combined with jazz improvisation. Unlike the rawer and more unfettered freedom of producer Steve Lake's inspired pairing of singer Robin Williamson with improvisers including violist Mat Maneri, bassist Barre Phillips and Swedish traditionalist Ale Möller on recordings like The Iron Stone (2007), however, Quercus is a more refined, elegant and dark live recording that pairs renowned British ...
read moreJune Tabor, Huw Warren, Iain Ballamy: Quercus
by John Eyles
June Tabor has been superb for so long that it is easy to take her for granted as England's finest female traditional folk singer. Despite holding that status for many years, she has never seemed to rest on her laurels. Alongside the traditional folk songs on which she built her reputation, Tabor has a repertoire broad enough to include John Lennon's In My Life," Lou Reed's All Tomorrow's Parties," Elvis Costello's Shipbuilding" and Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart," ...
read moreHuw Warren: Hermeto +
by Bruce Lindsay
Pianist Huw Warren has been inspired by the music of Hermeto Pascoal for over 25 years, and Hermeto + is a fitting tribute to the idiosyncratic Brazilian composer. The tunes--half of them written by Pascoal, half written by Warren--move from lyrical ballads to up-tempo dance tunes via occasional experimental pieces, demonstrating the range of both composers' styles as well as the technical ability of Warren's trio. The album is bookended by two Warren tunes: The End Is ...
read moreHuw Warren & Peter Herbert: Everything We Love And More
by Chris May
He may be best known for his work with Perfect Houseplants and June Tabor, but pianist/composer Huw Warren's own albums are amongst the most precious treasures of the British jazz scene.
Last autumn, Warren gave us one of 2005's highlights with Duw A Wyr. A characteristically free-spirited and well-realised set, the album featured the young Welsh singer Lleuwen Steffan on a collection of hymns sung by proto-socialist miners in the South Wales valleys a hundred years ago, accompanied by Warren ...
read moreHuw Warren: Brecon Jazz Artist-in-Residence
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All About Jazz
Back for his second year as artist-in-residence at Brecon Jazz is innovative Welsh musician and composer Huw Warren who performs in one of the stand-out festival concerts with his highly acclaimed ensemble Quercus, along with some interesting international collaborations. Quercus play the Chapter Stage at Brecon Cathedral on the festival Sunday, bringing together three of the UK’s most creative and original musicians, Huw, saxophonist and Jazz composerIain Ballamy, and the voice of BBC Folk Awards 'Folk Singer of the Year' ...
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Huw Warren: Choro Choro Choro
Rating: ★★★★
Author: Andy Robson
Warren’s love affair with Brazilian music, most notably in his association with Hermeto Pascoal, hardly needs re-affirming here. But Choro, Choro, Choro is perhaps his most personal and celebratory release yet in the domain he so cherishes.
Although choros are generally instrumental pieces for a band, Warren has chosen solo piano interpretations from composers at the root of the music (Ernesto Nazareth songbooks end the album) up to contemporary composers like Warren’s beloved Pascoal. And Warren contributes two of his own compositions, a joyful dedication to Pascoal (‘Chorinho for Hermeto’) and the urgently dark ‘Desequilibrado’, which tips and yaws like a storm-tossed barque, but never quite loses balance.