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Gwilym Simcock
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Gwilym Simcock has carved out a career as one of the most gifted pianists and imaginative composers on the European scene. He moves effortlessly between jazz and classical music, with a ‘harmonic sophistication and subtle dovetailing of musical traditions’. Gwilym has been hailed as a pianist of ‘exceptional’, ‘brilliant’ and ‘dazzling’ ability, and his music has been widely acclaimed as ‘engaging, exciting, often unexpected, melodically enthralling, complex yet hugely accessible’, and above all ‘wonderfully optimistic’. Gwilym’s influences are wide ranging, from jazz legends including Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny, to classical composers including Maurice Ravel, Henri Dutilleux, Béla Bartók and Mark-Anthony Turnage
Unified Theories
By Ant Law
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: A to Z; Colours; Parity; Tbilisi; Ballroom; Nikumaroro; Where Would We Be?; Stereopticon; Octopus Pyjama; Ensconced; Nikumaroro (alternate take).
Last Night of the World
By Fini Bearman
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Rise Up; Last Night of the World; Stay Away From Me; Plz Call; OKR; WWEMA?; Violent Universe; Mud; The Only One; Forgiveness.
Ant Law: Unified Theories
by Neil Duggan
Guitarist Ant Law exemplifies the modern jazz polymath. Beyond leading his own quintet, he maintains a musical partnership with British/Turkish vocalist Brigitte Beraha, sustains an ongoing collaboration with saxophonist Alex Hitchcock and co-leads the innovative Trio HLK. This venture sees him forming an entirely new ensemble for their debut release, Unified Theories, all while continuing collaborations ...
Omar Thomas, Daniele di Bonaventura, Arild Andersen, Joep Van Rhijn & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
No matter the format, from duo to large ensemble, depth and introspection are the defining characteristics of the music featured in this playlist.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill) 0:00 Emma Rawicz, Gwilym Simcock “Optimus Friction" Big Visit (ACT) 0:16 Host talks 8:56 Daniele di Bonaventura, ...
Fini Bearman: Last Night of the World
by Neil Duggan
As professor of Jazz Voice and Songwriting at London's Guildhall School, Fini Bearman naturally incorporates songwriting exercises into her teaching. Over time, some of the songs born from these sessions evolved into fully realised pieces, several of which now appear on her fifth album, Last Night of The World. Bearman brings an impressive jazz ...
Dreamweavers: Woven In Time
by Neil Duggan
The group Dreamweavers is the vision of two guitarists, one who acts as the lead player and the other who predominantly acts as producer, also adding lap steel guitar and mandocello (the baritone member of the mandolin family) to the musical mix. Woven In Time is their first release and the result of their ongoing collaboration. ...
The Emily Masser Quintet: Songs With My Father
by Neil Duggan
Rising vocal talent Emily Masser has already attracted positive attention from British jazz luminaries Claire Martin, Liane Carroll and Clark Tracey. This is no small feat for an artist who has recorded an album while still studying at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is also helped by having on-tap mentorship and artistic guidance ...
Moment Of Departure
By Tim Garland
Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Winds Of Hope; Trails; No Horizon; The Impossible Self; Sub Vita; Moment of Departure; Moment
Of Arrival; Approaching Winter; The Forever Seed Part I--Fruit; The Forever Seed Part II--Made
Beautiful; The Forever Seed Part III--Harbinger; The Forever Seed Part IV--Nascency; The Forever
Seed Part V--Praise.
Tim Garland: Moment Of Departure
by Neil Duggan
For Tim Garland, the title, Moment of Departure, describes the “dive into the fresh unknown as improvisors, leaving the solid ground of what has been composed." Many of the tracks were inspired by the free-flowing artwork of Turkish painter Esra Kizir Gokcen. Her own migrant narrative provides the alternative meaning for the title. This ...
