Jazz Articles about Neil Cowley

Take Five With Neil Cowley

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2007

Meet Neil Cowley: As a ten-year-old child prodigy he performed a Shostakovich piano concerto to a full house at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Having answered an ad in Melody Maker at seventeen, he entered the world of pop, and by 21 had performed to over five thousand at the Royal Albert Hall. In 2002, Q Magazine described his music as “beautiful and delicate," while The Independent on Sunday added “sweeping and epic." Yet just two years ago, London-born pianist-composer Neil ...