Jazz Articles about Jamil Sheriff

About Jamil Sheriff

Instrument: Piano

Album Review

Jamil Sheriff: The Ilkley Suite

Read "The Ilkley Suite" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
August 12, 2020

Commissioned by the Ilkley Jazz Festival to celebrate its fifth anniversary in 2018, The Ilkley Suite is composer/pianist Jamil Sheriff's musical interpretation of some of the legends, history and landscapes of Ilkley and its surrounding countryside in the English county of West Yorkshire. It is an ambitious, complex and wide-ranging suite in eight parts, performed by a quartet of instrumentalists joined on occasion by vocalist Beverley Beirne, who brings her skilful and evocative voice to tracks such as “Verbeia" and ...

Interview

Jamil Sheriff: Helping shape a brave new jazz world

by Rokas Kucinskas
February 24, 2017

Jamil Sheriff is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator. About 20 years after finishing studies in Leeds College of Music, the pianist became the head of the jazz department in the same institution; today he is regarded as one of the top jazz educators in the UK. Among many things Sheriff teaches composition, aural awareness, and ensemble. Known for his composition skills, he worked with large ensembles and recorded with them in the past: Daydreams (2003) and Backchat (2008) with ...