Results for "Dick Pearce"

Dick Pearce

Born: April 19, 1951

Mujician: Keith Tippett – The Authorised Biography by Martin Phillips

by Mark McKergow
June 13, 2026

Mujician: Keith Tippett--The Authorised Biography Martin Phillips 325 Pages ISBN: 978 1916320697 Jazz In Britain 2026 Pianist, composer, improviser, and educator Keith Tippett (1947--2020) was a truly original voice in jazz. Born in Bristol, England, to a policeman father and Irish mother, he remained closely connected to his roots in southwest England. He is ...

The Cortège Live At The BBC 1980

By Mike Westbrook

Label: Cadillac Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: It Starts Here; Democratie; Berlin-16.2.79; Knivshult/Ash Wednesday; Ruote Che Girano; Piano; Lenador; July ‘79; Enfance; Cordoba; Santarcangelo; A Hearth Burns; Graffitti.

Tony Haynes Has Left Town... But What A Legacy He Leaves Behind

by Duncan Heining
October 8, 2024

The death of my friend musician/composer Tony Haynes aged 83 from cancer is a loss both to his wife and children and to the musical communities of East London whom he served with such passion. A jazz enthusiast from his early teens, he studied music at Oxford and Nottingham, while at the latter working simultaneously as ...

Wodgi

by Duncan Heining
August 4, 2018

Trumpeter Dave Holdsworth has graced a number of key jazz recordings over the years, notably with Mike Westbrook, Barry Guy and Tony Oxley. At the same time, he recorded rather less than many of his peers from that important period in British jazz in the late '60s/early '70s. Instead of the vagaries of a career in ...

Tim Richards' HEXTET: Telegraph Hill

By Tim Richards

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Telegraph Hill; Joe's Outside; Lucid Dreaming; Spirit Walking; Shapeshifting; Storebaelstbroen; Tollbridge; Discovery; Clandestine; Ease Up

Trudy Kerr: Contemplation

by Bruce Lindsay
January 15, 2015

Subtitled The Best Of Trudy Kerr, Contemplation is a retrospective of the singer's career through selections from her ten album discography. Contemplation takes in Kerr's career from Blossom Dearie's “Sweet Surprise"--a track from her debut album (Sweet Surprise, Jazzizit Records, 1997)--through to “Poppies," from The Rhythm of Life: Ted And Gladys (Jazzizit Records, 2013), ...

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 ...

Big Hits

By Dick Pearce

Label: Reference Recordings
Released: 1995