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Jamil Sheriff

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Jamil Sheriff is the Curriculum Leader of the Jazz course at Leeds College of Music – the largest music student campus in the UK that offers an internationally recognised degree and masters programme with pathways in Jazz, Pop, Classical and Production. As a performer Jamil writes and makes original music. He has also enjoyed playing with artists such as Ingrid Jensen, Dave Liebman, Terell Stafford, Pete King, Henry Lowther, Gareth Lockrane, Josh Kemp, Richard Iles, Neil Yates and Colman Brothers.

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The Ilkley Suite

Label: 33 Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: The River Where I Live; Verbeia; Cup And Ring; The Healer; Solstice With The 12 Apostles; Rombald; Ilkley Moor Baht At; Cut From Stone.

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Article: Album Review

Jamil Sheriff: The Ilkley Suite

Read "The Ilkley Suite" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Commissioned by the Ilkley Jazz Festival to celebrate its fifth anniversary in 2018, The Ilkley Suite is composer/pianist Jamil Sheriff's musical interpretation of some of the legends, history and landscapes of Ilkley and its surrounding countryside in the English county of West Yorkshire. It is an ambitious, complex and wide-ranging suite in eight parts, performed by ...

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Article: Interview

Jamil Sheriff: Helping shape a brave new jazz world

Read "Jamil Sheriff: Helping shape a brave new jazz world" reviewed by Rokas Kucinskas


Jamil Sheriff is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator. About 20 years after finishing studies in Leeds College of Music, the pianist became the head of the jazz department in the same institution; today he is regarded as one of the top jazz educators in the UK. Among many things Sheriff teaches composition, aural awareness, and ...

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Places Like This

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: The Contortionist; Blueish; Miss Mae; The New One; Crazy Happy; TP1; Matchstick Man.

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Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival 2015

Read "Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival 2015" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Brilliant Corners Jazz Festivaljny:Belfast, Ireland March 25-28 , 2015 Brilliant Corners may not be the biggest jazz festival in Northern Ireland--that accolade belongs to the City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival--but in just three editions it can already lay claim to being the best. Eschewing the populist ...

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Article: Album Review

Jamie Taylor & Java: Cat Dreams

Read "Cat Dreams" reviewed by Matthew Warnock


With Cat Dreams, UK guitarist Jamie Taylor combines his high-energy chops with a hard swingin' rhythm section to produce an album that is sure to bring him greater recognition in North America. Jamie Taylor has become known as a young lion on the British jazz scene, as he regularly performs with some of the country's top ...

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Daydreams

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2003


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