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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

Album

Earthworks Complete

Label: Summerfold Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD1 (Earthworks): Thud; Making a Song and Dance; Up North; Pressure; My Heart Declares a Holiday; Emotional Shirt; It Needn't End in Tears; The Shepherd is Eternal; Bridge of Inhibition.


CD2 (Dig?): Stromboli Kicks; Gentle Persuasion; Downtown; Pilgrim's Way; Dancing of Frith Street; A Stone's Throw; Libreville; Corroboree.
CD3 (All Heaven Broke Loose): Hotel Splendour; Forget-Me-Not; Candles Still Flicker in Romania's Dark; Pigalle; Temple of the Winds; Nerve; Splashing Out; All Heaven Broke Loose: (a) Psalm; (b) Old Song.
CD4 (Stamping Ground Live): Nerve; Up North; A Stone's Throw; Pilgrim's Way; Emotional Shirt; It Needn't End in Tears; All Heaven Broke Loose: (a) Psalm; (b) Old Song; Candles Still Flicker in Romania's Dark; Bridge of Inhibition.
CD5 (A Part, and Yet Apart): No Truce With the Furies; A Part, And Yet Apart; Some Shiver, While He Cavorts; Footloose and Fancy Free; Sarah’s Still Life; The Emperor’s New Clothes; Curiouser and Curiouser; Eyes on the Horizon; Dewey-Eyed, Then Dancing.
CD6 (The Sound of Surprise): Revel Without a Pause; Triplicity; The Shadow of a Doubt; Teaching Vera to Dance; Half Life; Come to Dust; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Never the Same Way Once; The Wooden Man Sings, And the Stone Woman Dances.
CD7 (Footloose and Fancy Free Part 1): Footloose and Fancy Free; If Summer Had Its Ghosts; A Part, and Yet Apart; Triplicity; Come to Dust; No Truce with the Furies; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances.
CD8 (Footloose and Fancy Free Part 2): Revel Without a Pause; Never the Same Way Once; Original Sin; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Dewey-Eyed, then Dancing; The Emperor’s New Clothes; Bridge of Inhibition.
CD9 (Random Acts of Happiness): My Heart Declares A Holiday; White Knuckle Wedding; Turn and Return; Tramontana; Bajo del Sol; Seems Like a Lifetime Ago (Part 1); Modern Folk; With Friends Like These…; Speaking With Wooden Tongues; One of a Kind (Part 1); One of a Kind (Part 2).
DVD1 (Footloose in NYC): Intro; Revel Without a Pause; Never the Same Way Once; Original Sin; Come to Dust; Some Shiver While He Cavorts; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances; The Emperor’s New Clothes; The Shadow of a Doubt; Triplicity; Footloose and Fancy Free; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Bridge of Inhibition.
CD10 (Footloose in NYC Part 1): Intro; Revel Without a Pause; Never the Same Way Once; Original Sin; Come to Dust; Some Shiver While He Cavorts; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances.
CD11 (Footloose in NYC Part 2): The Emperor’s New Clothes; The Shadow of a Doubt; Triplicity; Footloose and Fancy Free; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Bridge of Inhibition.
DVD2 (A Video Anthology Volume 1: 2000s): Triplicity; Original Sin; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Revel Without a Pause; Baja del Sol; Tramontana; Beelzebub; Footloose and Fancy Free; Libreville; Highland Games; Youth; Song; White Knuckle Wedding; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances.
CD12 (A Video Anthology Volume 1: 2000s Part 1): Triplicity; Original Sin; Cloud Cuckoo Land; Revel Without a Pause; Baja del Sol; Tramontana; Beelzebub.
CD13 (A Video Anthology Volume 1: 2000s Part 2): Footloose and Fancy Free; Libreville; Highland Games; Youth; Song; White Knuckle Wedding; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances.
DVD3 (A Video Anthology 2: 1990s): Up North; All Heaven Broke Loose: (a) Psalm; (b) Old Song; Stromboli Kicks; Bridge of Inhibition; Emotional Shirt; Candles Still Flicker in the Dark; Nerve; Pigalle; Never the Same Way Once; Some Shiver While He Cavorts; Bridge of Inhibition (Alternative Version).
CD14 (A Video Anthology 2: 1990s Part 1): Up North; All Heaven Broke Loose: (a) Psalm; (b) Old Song; Stromboli Kicks; Bridge of Inhibition; Emotional Shirt; Candles Still Flicker in the Dark.
CD15 (A Video Anthology 2: 1990s Part 2): Pigalle; Never the Same Way Once; Some Shiver While He Cavorts; Bridge of Inhibition (Alternative Version).
CD16 (Earthworks Underground Orchestra): Libreville; Up North; Pigalle; Speaking in Wooden Tongues; Footloose and Fancy Free; Bajo del Sol; It Needn't End in Tears; The Wooden Man Sings, and the Stone Woman Dances.
DVD4 (Earthworks in Santiago, Chile): Turn and Return; Revel Without a Pause; Bajo del Sol; Modern Folk; Come to Dust; Triplicity; Seems Lie a Lifetime Ago Pt 1; One of a Kind; The Wooden Man Sings And the Stone Woman Cavorts; Beelzebub; Footloose and Fancy Free.
CD17 (Earthworks in Santiago, Chile): Turn and Return; Revel Without a Pause; Bajo del Sol; Modern Folk; Come to Dust; Triplicity; Seems Lie a Lifetime Ago Pt 1; One of a Kind; The Wooden Man Sings And the Stone Woman Cavorts; Beelzebub; Footloose and Fancy Free.
CD18 (From Conception to Birth): Bridge of Inhibition Demo; Bridge of Inhibition; Pressure Demo; Pressure; Hotel Splendour Demo; Hotel Splendour; Lingo Demo; Lingo; If Summer Had Its Ghosts Demo; If Summer Had Its Ghosts; Original Sin Demo; Original Sin; Footloose and Fancy Free Demo; Footloose and Fancy Free; Triplicity Demo; Triplicity; Banyan Demo.
CD19 (Heavenly Bodies Expanded Part 1): Stromboli Kicks; Making a Song and Dance; Up North; Candles Still Flicker in Romania’s Dark; Pigalle; My Heart Declares a Holiday; Temple of the Winds; Nerve; Gentle Persuasion; It Needn’t End in Tears; Libreville; Dancing on Frith Street; Bridge of Inhibition.
CD20 (Heavenly Bodies Expanded Part 2): No Truce With the Furies; Dewey-Eyed, Then Dancing; A Part, And Yet Apart; Revel Without a Pause; The Sound of Surprise; White Knuckle Wedding; Youth; Rosa Ballerina; Thud; Blues for Little Joe.

Album

From This Place

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: America Undefined; Wide and Far; You Are; Same River; Pathmaker; The Past in Us; Everything Explained; From This Place; Sixty-Six; Love May Take Awhile.

Album

Heavenly Bodies – The Expanded Collection

Label: Summerfold UK
Released: 2019
Track listing: Disc 1: Stromboli Kicks; Making a Song and Dance; Up North; Candles Still Flicker in Romania's Dark; Pigalle; My Heart Declares a Holiday; Temple of the Winds; Nerve; Gentle Persuasion; It Needn't End in Tears; Libreville; Dancing on Frith Street; Bridge of Inhibition.


Disc 2: No Truce with the Furies; Dewey-Eyed, Then Dancing; A Part, and Yet Apart; Revel Without a Pause; The Sound of Surprise; White Knuckle Wedding; Youth; Rosa Ballerina; Thud; Blues for Little Joe.

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Various Artists: Newvelle Muri

Read "Newvelle Muri" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Swiss drummer/percussionist and composer, Stephan Diethelm lived in Zimbabwe for several years and was musically influenced by the African rhythms he heard. He had appeared on four albums when he launched the Muri Series, an ongoing succession of concerts that began in 2002, sometimes called Musig im Pflegidach. Pflegidach is a monastery that dates to the ...

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Ambleside Days Contemporary Jazz Festival 2019

Read "Ambleside Days Contemporary Jazz Festival 2019" reviewed by Mike Collins


Ambleside Days Contemporary Jazz Festival Ambleside, UK August 29-September 1, 2019 'Music that requires a different kind of listening' were the words Derek Hook used, to describe the essence of the Ambleside Days Festival programme at the start of the third edition of this small but top quality festival.

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Trish Clowes: Ninety Degrees Gravity

Read "Ninety Degrees Gravity" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Trish Clowes' stock has risen steadily since her debut, Tangent (Basho Records, 2010), which featured jazz quartet and, on several tracks, orchestra. That record announced a promising and ambitious voice, one equally at home with jazz and classical colors. Since then the saxophonist has continued to explore the meeting of jazz, voice and strings, attracting a ...

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Bill Bruford's Earthworks: Earthworks Complete

Read "Earthworks Complete" reviewed by John Kelman


Since retiring as a professional musician in 2009, progressive/art rock turned jazz drummer Bill Bruford has successfully managed to maintained a place in the public eye. Beyond his engaging, informative and successful Bill Bruford: The Autobiography (Jawbone Press, 2009), the drummer/percussionist has more recently released a second, equally captivating book, Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer ...

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Q4: Uphill Struggle

Read "Uphill Struggle" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Saxophone quartets are a relatively infrequent phenomenon in jazz. Perhaps the last one to cause a stir was the Delta Saxophone Quartet whose albums Crimson! (Basho Records, 2016) and Bowie, Berlin & Beyond (FMR Records, 2018) offered new perspectives on the music of King Crimson and David Bowie respectively. But even the DSQ relied on occasional ...

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Mike Walker: Ropes

Read "Ropes" reviewed by Duncan Heining


Ropes is Manchester-based guitarist Mike Walker's second album as a leader and it couldn't be much more different from his fusion-oriented debut Madhouse and the Whole Thing There (Hidden Idiom, 2008). This album is a jazz-with-strings affair and a fine one at that. The mood is mostly gentler, more reflective and more pastoral than on his ...


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