Jazz Articles about Gwilym Simcock

Gwilym Simcock: Blues Vignette

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 23, 2010

Ancora giovanissimo (ha da poco compiuto ventinove anni), Gwilym Simcock è una delle promesse del jazz europeo. In questo ambizioso doppio album - che arriva dopo Perception, il suo esordio come titolare, e numerosissime collaborazioni - il pianista inglese scatta un'istantanea del suo attuale e assai poliedrico profilo artistico. Infatti, già affiancare ai tradizionali contesti in solo e in trio una suite in duo con una violoncellista classica (Cara Berridge, membro dell'ensemble cameristico Sacconi Quartet) testimonia il suo marcato interesse ...

Gwilym Simcock: It's All Just Music

by Ian Patterson
January 4, 2010

Pianist/composer Gwilym Simcock has achieved a lot in a short time. His debut album as leader, Perception (Basho, 2007) was roundly praised as heralding the arrival of a significant new talent. Prior to that Simcock had captured attention for lighting up Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio and Malcolm Creese's Acoustic Triangle. Awards and commissions began to roll in accompanied by a certain amount of hype; Chick Corea labeled him a “creative ...

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 ...