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Gwilym Simcock
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Gwilym Simcock has carved out a career as one of the most gifted pianists and imaginative composers on the European scene. He moves effortlessly between jazz and classical music, with a ‘harmonic sophistication and subtle dovetailing of musical traditions’. Gwilym has been hailed as a pianist of ‘exceptional’, ‘brilliant’ and ‘dazzling’ ability, and his music has been widely acclaimed as ‘engaging, exciting, often unexpected, melodically enthralling, complex yet hugely accessible’, and above all ‘wonderfully optimistic’. Gwilym’s influences are wide ranging, from jazz legends including Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny, to classical composers including Maurice Ravel, Henri Dutilleux, Béla Bartók and Mark-Anthony Turnage
Moment Of Departure
By Tim Garland
Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Winds Of Hope; Trails; No Horizon; The Impossible Self; Sub Vita; Moment of Departure; Moment
Of Arrival; Approaching Winter; The Forever Seed Part I--Fruit; The Forever Seed Part II--Made
Beautiful; The Forever Seed Part III--Harbinger; The Forever Seed Part IV--Nascency; The Forever
Seed Part V--Praise.
The Qow Trio: The Hold Up
by Neil Duggan
Anyone whose musical taste yearns for the type of '50s and '60s sounds of artists such as Sonny Rollins, Jackie Mclean and Lee Morgan, may find The Hold Up is just what they seek. This is the second album from the Qow Trio (pronounced Cow). Taking their name from a composition on Dewey Redman's album, Coincide ...
Vienna Chamber Diaries plus Strings
Label: Basho Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: New Horizons; Just Another Pop Song; Divertimento in Blue Part 1; Divertimento in Blue Part 2; Florentin; Far Side of
the Moon; Valse Bleue; Home; Indian Summer
Brilliant Corners 2022
by Ian Patterson
Brilliant Corners 2022 The Black Box jny:Belfast, N. Ireland March 4-12, 2022 Brilliant Corners is ten. Belfast's onliest jazz festival celebrated the milestone by welcoming audiences back to The Black Box after 2021's virtual edition. When Brilliant Corners was last held here before a live audience, in March 2020, Covid ...
New Horizons
Album: Vienna Chamber Diaries plus Strings
By Johannes Berauer
Label: Basho Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 8:27
Tim Garland Launches His Winter Encounters Series
This December, Tim Garland launches his “Winter Encounters”—a series of unique trio performances, beautifully filmed and streamed from Oak Gable Studios. Each 45-minute set features a unique collaboration of world-class musicians followed by a live Q&A session with the artists, starting with Kit Downes & Norma Winstone on December 6th. Over the last 30 years, British ...
Trio Grande: Three instruments, three nationalities, one supergroup
by Friedrich Kunzmann
An incessant stream of new artists, new ideas, revisitations of old ideas and ever-shifting technological inventions continues to push jazz onward, forward into the 21st Century. While most of today's music began taking root and developing in the turbulent jazz topographies of the last century, each new interpretation, extension and redesign today adds a new perspective, ...
Pat Metheny: From This Place
by Chris M. Slawecki
When a musician of Pat Metheny's pedigree writes, “From This Place is one of the records I have been waiting to make my whole life," it seems prudent to listen. Each of these ten new compositions seems to reflect a different aspect of Metheny as composer and guitarist, casting his bright and articulate voice ...
Andrew Bain: On Playing With(out) Boundaries
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Scottish drummer and educator Andrew Bain has performed in a wide variety of projects, from playing with Dave Liebman during his years with the Guildhall School of Music Jazz Orchestra, or collaborating with the late Kenny Wheeler to having taken part in joint efforts with the likes of late pianist John Taylor and other modern British ...
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