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Huw Warren
Huw Warren is a distinguished Welsh jazz musician, composer, and pianist renowned for his boundary-crossing approach to jazz and his unique improvisational style. Born in Swansea, Wales, Warren displayed an early passion for music, which led him to explore various genres including classical, jazz, and contemporary music.
His collaborations with notable artists such as saxophonist Iain Ballamy and singer June Tabor have demonstrated his versatility and innovative approach to jazz. Warren's music often combines jazz with influences from other genres, creating a rich and engaging soundscape.
Elijah Jeffery & Eddie Gripper: Elijah Jeffery & Eddie Gripper
by Neil Duggan
English pianist Eddie Gripper was last featured on All About Jazz in 2023 with his debut album, Home (Ubuntu Music). He returns in the company of vocalist Elijah Jeffrey with their self-titled album, featuring eight tracks, seven of which are original songs, together with an adaptation of a 17th-century aria. Jeffrey has a distinctive ...
Say Pluto
By Sue Rynhart
Label: Mrsuusuerecords
Released: 2024
Track listing: Lowlands; Elm, Educate; Catacombs; A River; Cat; The Signalman; Long Years Ago.
Choro Choro Choro
By Huw Warren
Label: MaizehMusic
Released: 2024
Track listing: Atlantico; Odeon; Agradecendo; Naquele Tempo; Gaúcho; Velho Amigo; Intocável; Receita de Samba; Choro pro Zé; Desequilibrado; Chorinho for Hermeto.
Sue Rynhart: Say Pluto
by Ian Patterson
Traditionalist or avant-garde provocateur? Singer or poet? Dubliner Sue Rynhart is all these things and more, and therein lies her appeal. Her debut, Crossings (Songs For Voice And Double Bass) (Self Produced, 2015), an alluring duo recording with Dan Bodwell, earned Rynhart broad critical acclaim for its hybrid folk, indie pop, spoken word and jazz/improvised spirit. ...
Huw Warren: Choro Choro Choro
by Chris May
The Welsh pianist Huw Warren is not a household name--though he ought to be--so a little background to Choro Choro Choro is appropriate, just in case the album is taken to have effervesced out of nowhere. In the 1990s, Warren was co-leader of the singular London quartet Perfect Houseplants. The group's half-dozen albums ...
Tomos Williams: An Absolute Riot! Risings, Race And Identity In Wales
by Ian Patterson
Threads. They wind their way through history, overlapping, interconnecting and sometimes weaving strange and powerful narratives that never really end, but simply grow and evolve. In 2020, half a millennium after the first transatlantic slave ships set sail from Europe to Africa, cheering protesters in Bristol, England, dumped the statue of slave trader Edward ...
Eddie Gripper: Home
by Neil Duggan
Home is the debut album from Eddie Gripper, an English pianist, composer and educator from Oxfordshire. He's now based in Cardiff, where he studied jazz at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama with Huw Warren. He has collaborated with Warren and also with Iain Ballamy, John Parricelli and Welsh folk artist Angharad Jenkins of ...
Carole Nelson: Zen And The Art Of Music Making
by Ian Patterson
To what extent music is a product of nature versus nurture is impossible to qualify, but it is reasonable to assume that a musician's immediate environment plays into the music somehow. Difficult, certainly, to imagine bebop birthing anywhere other than in the hurly burly of 1940s New York, for example. For London-born, Ireland-based pianist Carole Nelson, ...
