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So Why Can't Jazz Guitarists Play Chords?
by Bruce Lindsay
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 ...
Gwilym Simcock, Mike Walker, Steve Swallow, Adam Nussbaum: The Impossible Gentlemen
by Chris May
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 ...
Jim Hart: The Art of Juggling
by Alan Bryson
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 ...
It's Been A Very Good Year
by Bruce Lindsay
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 ...
Brad Mehldau: Live in Marciac
by John Kelman
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 ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Gwilym Simcock
All About Jazz is celebrating Gwilym Simcock's birthday today! Gwilym Simcock”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... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Gwilym Simcock ...
Iiro Rantala: Lost heroes
by Bruce Lindsay
German record label ACT Music is rapidly cornering the market in stylish solo piano albums. With Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala's Lost Heroes, it adds another distinctive and glorious recording to its collection, alongside Gwilym Simcock's Good Days At Schloss Elmau (2011) and Danilo Rea's A Tribute To Fabrizio De André (2010), among others. ...
Trish Clowes: Tangent
by Bruce Lindsay
Trish Clowes' Tangent is an ambitious project that brings together free improvisations, small band numbers and full-scale orchestral pieces to create a fascinating collection of new music. Projects of this scale in jazz are far from easily achieved, and the fact that this is composer, leader and tenor saxophonist Clowes' debut--recorded at the age of 25--renders ...
Gwilym Simcock: Good Days At Schloss Elmau
by Bruce Lindsay
The world of jazz is currently enjoying a surfeit of great piano players, and the ACT label is home to some of the most innovative: musicians such as Michael Wollny of [em], Yaron Herman and Danilo Rea. Gwilym Simcock is the latest addition to the ACT roster with his solo Good Days At Schloss Elmau, a ...
Blues Vignette
Label: Basho Records
Released: 2010
Track listing:
CD 1:
1. Little People - 6:56; 2. Exploration on Mvt II Of Grieg Piano Concerto - 8:34; 3. On Broadway (Mann/Well) - 4:13;
4. Improvisation I - Statues - 3:06; 5. Improvisation II - Letter to the Editor - 3:49; 6. Improvisation III - Be
Still Now - 4:04; 7. Caldera - 8:38; 8. Jaco and Joe - 9:21; Suite for Cello and Piano: 9. Part 1 - Kinship - 14:57;
10. Part 2 - Homeward - 6:04.
CD 2:
1. Introduction - 4:46; 2. Tundra - 7:04; 3. Blues Vignette - 8:12; 4. Black Coffee (S. Burke) - 5:23; 5. Longing to
Be - 6:35; 6. Nice Work If You Can Get It (G. Gershwin) - 6:35; 7. Cry Me a River (A. Hamilton) - 8:05; 8. 1981 - 8:29.
Ove non indicato le composizioni sono di Gwilym Simcock.
