Jazz Articles about Tim Richards

About Tim Richards

Album Review

Tim Richards has been plying his trade as a jazz pianist since 1982. In that time, he has been the guiding force behind numerous group projects: Spirit Level, Great Spirit, Hextet and his own trio. Followers of his recordings have had to exercise considerable patience--his last release was 2015's Telegraph Hill (33jazz), and his last trio recording stretches back even further to 2010's Shapeshifting (33jazz). Fortunately, the wait is over: he returns with his fourth trio recording, Four Aces.

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Take Five With Tim Richards

by AAJ Staff
July 19, 2011

Meet Tim Richards: Tim's first encounter with a piano was at the age of eight, in a dentist's waiting room. After classical piano lessons he taught himself jazz and blues from the age of 14, after seeing Thelonious Monk on TV.Since forming the long-lived modern jazz quartet Spirit Level in Bristol in 1979, he has performed his compositions at jazz clubs and festivals in almost every European country. Tim expanded Spirit Level to a nine-piece in ...

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Tim Richards' Great Spirit: Epistrophy

by Chris May
April 4, 2005

Tim Richards' current band, the nine-piece Great Spirit, continues to explore much the same territory as its predecessor Spirit Level, which Richards disbanded in 1999, after 20 years and seven albums, presumably feeling the need to “refresh the brand." Muscular hard bop laced with a touch of R&B (as in Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers rather than Ashanti) is at the base of the mix, with added infusions of in your face big band rock-outs, a touch of electrified funk ...