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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gwilym Simcock

February 24, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Gwilym Simcock's birthday today! ”I feel confident that Simcock already deserves to occupy the inner circle of the great contemporary pianists along with Mehldau, Jarrett, and Rubalcaba” David Kane, Cadence U.S.A. 28 year old, Gwilym Simcock is one of the most gifted pianists and imaginative composers on the British scene. Able ...

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News: Website

Jazz Near You Imports GigPress Events for Jazz Musicians

February 13, 2019

Jazz Near You—the web's leading jazz event aggregator—now imports events uploaded by musicians through GigPress—the WordPress calendar plugin. Musicians including trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, both GigPress users, now see their dates uploaded to Jazz Near You within 24 hours of uploading them to the Greenleaf Music website. If you are a jazz musician ...

Album

Good Days At Schloss Elmau

By Gwilym Simcock

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: These are the Good Days; Mezzotint; Gripper; Plain Song; Northern Smiles; Can We Still Be Friends?; Wake Up Call; Elmau Tage.

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Article: JazzLife UK

It's Our Generations

by Bruce Lindsay
October 17, 2011

It's been a strange summer here in the UK. To be fair, that description can be applied with no trace of irony to almost any British summer--and the summer of 2011 seems to have been a strange one for much of the world. But this is a JazzLife UK article, and parochial concerns are paramount, thus ...

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Article: Album Review

Sam Crockatt Quartet: Flood Tide

Read "Flood Tide" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
September 19, 2011

The Sam Crockatt Quartet's first album, Howeird (Loop Records, 2008), garnered much critical praise, and won Best Album in the 2009 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Its second album, Flood Tide, therefore, has a lot to live up to, so it's to this young quartet's credit that Flood Tide keeps up the early momentum, with a combination of ...

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Article: JazzLife UK

So Why Can't Jazz Guitarists Play Chords?

by Bruce Lindsay
July 29, 2011

This edition of JazzLife UK starts about as far from Britain as it's possible to get in the USA without toppling head first into the Pacific. It returns to its spiritual and physical homeland of Norfolk, where it can happily hide from the real world until next time, and looks forward to a festival that combines ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Gwilym Simcock, Mike Walker, Steve Swallow, Adam Nussbaum: The Impossible Gentlemen

by Chris May
May 30, 2011

The Impossible GentlemenThe Impossible GentlemenBasho Records2011 You may not have heard of The Impossible Gentlemen, for this is the group's first album, and you may not have heard of one of its two chief protagonists, as he has chosen to spend most of his career away from ...

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Article: Interview

Jim Hart: The Art of Juggling

by Alan Bryson
March 23, 2011

Jim Hart is one of the hottest young musicians on the U.K. jazz scene. His impressive skills are matched by a level of experience and maturity that belie his age. His musicianship elicited this praise from vibes heavyweight Joe Locke: “Some of the best music I've heard in a long time. Definitely the best vibes playing ...

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Article: JazzLife UK

It's Been A Very Good Year

by Bruce Lindsay
March 21, 2011

The New Year is past its infancy, leaving toddlerhood behind and heading into those difficult pre-school years. Olympic Fever jostles with a forthcoming Royal Wedding for the attentions of the Great British Public (at least according to the more populist media). Across the Atlantic, Esperanza Spalding won a first for jazz: the Grammy Award for Best ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Brad Mehldau: Live in Marciac

by John Kelman
March 2, 2011

Brad Mehldau Live in Marciac Nonesuch Records2011 If there's any (relatively) young pianist ready to take the torch from Keith Jarrett when it comes to solo performance, it's Brad Mehldau. In the space of (again, relatively) a few short years, from his mid-1990s emergence with saxophonist Joshua Redman through his ...