Jazz Articles about Gwilym Simcock

Gwilym Simcock: Blues Vignette

by Ian Patterson
December 24, 2009

Gwilym Simcock Blues Vignette Basho 2009

Pianist/composer Gwilym Simcock sees the 2CD set Blues Vignette as a musical snapshot capturing but one stage of his musical development. In fact, the album is more like a lovingly crafted self portrait which reveals both the musical bloodline and which hints at future endeavors.

The first CD features Simcock solo and for 20 minutes in a duo performing a suite for cello and piano. Stripped ...

Gwilym Simcock: Blues Vignette

by John Kelman
November 19, 2009

Around long enough that the phrase “coming late to jazz" is no longer relevant, pianist Gwilym Simcock's star has been rapidly rising on the British scene for the past seven years, as he continues to mine the nexus of a classical upbringing with his more recent “conversion" to jazz. All too often, young artists release albums as leaders before they're ready, but in the case of the still twenty-something Simcock--a member of saxophonist Tim Garland's innovative Lighthouse Trio responsible for ...

SGS Group, Inc.: presents...

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 16, 2008

Un trio di musicisti giovani e di grandi prospettive, che si frequentano da tempo (formavano ad esempio il quartetto di Klaus Gesing in Heart Luggage) e perciò hanno un eccellente interplay, danno vita a questo lavoro fatto di omaggi, molti attraverso riletture di brani, tre invece attraverso esplicite dediche di composizioni originali, una per ciascun membro del gruppo. Se tutti e tre gli interpreti mostrano grandi qualità, svetta su tutti un sempre più impressionante Yuri Goloubev, costantemente in primo piano ...

Gwilym Simcock: Perception

by John Kelman
November 7, 2007

It's rare when an artist emerges to accolades like “the most important new pianist on the British scene," and even rarer when such praise is justified. It's rarer still when it's an artist like Gwilym Simcock who, at twenty-six, has won a bevy of British awards despite coming to jazz from a classical background less than a decade ago. For an artist so young, Simcock has racked up a staggering array of accomplishments—a member of drummer Bill Bruford's Earthworks and ...