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About Jamie Alexander Smith

Instrument: Piano

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Musician

Jamie started playing classical piano at age 6. Such a rigid musical environment quickly frustrated him and he started experimenting with improvising and composing his own music. He played a concert of his own piano compositions in school aged 11, and found that challenging himself not to rely on someone else to write the music for him was exciting and satisfying. Improvising is a key element of Jamie’s 'musical conception'. Knowing exactly what you’re going to play when you go on stage or hit the recording studio is, for him, uninticing. Nothing can compare with the exhilaration of making music up on the spot. Over the years Jamie has played in a variety of ensembles, from rock bands and jazz and funk ensembles to brass bands and an orchestra or two

Album

Kinesis

By Jamie Alexander Smith

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Kinetic; Undercurrent; Channelling; Release; WKG (Bonus Track).

Article: Album Review

Jamie Alexander Smith: Kinesis

Read "Kinesis" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
May 10, 2014

Kinesis, from the young Edinburgh based pianist Jamie Alexander Smith, is sub-titled Four Improvisations On Piano. The sub-title pretty much explains things--on a basic level and except for the fact that a fifth track, “WKG," puts in an appearance. Of course, while the basic level of explanation hints at Smith's compositional approach and makes his instrument ...

Article: Album Review

Jamie Alexander Smith: Kinesis

by Dan Bilawsky
April 15, 2014

"Kinesis," when defined as simply as possible, means “movement." When the definition is expanded, or given a biological reading, it references the idea of movement that takes place in response to external stimuli. Without knowing the circumstances surrounding the recording of this oh-so-brief solo piano EP, it's hard to know which one Scottish pianist Jamie Smith ...