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Basho Records
2 x CD: SRCD 322
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GWILYM SIMCOCK
"Blues Vignette"
LIMITED OFFER PRICE ONLY £10.49
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Blues Vignette moves Gwilym Simcock onto a new musical plane. An extraordinarily gifted pianist/composer, his music is engaging, exciting, melodically enthralling, complex and wonderfully
optimistic. Double CD for single CD price.
Gwilym Simcock’s new double album “Blues Vignette” launches his new trio with extraordinary,
classically trained Russian bassist Yuri Goloubev and young UK drum star James Maddren as well as
documenting Gwilym’s emerging voice as a solo pianist. The first CD offers a mix of stunning
improvisations and new Simcock compositions as well as insightful interpretations of Grieg’s Piano
Concerto and the popular tune “On Broadway”. It also provides a brief window into the mind of a
composer who mixes classical and jazz without effort, with a recording of a suite for cello and piano
originally written for the opening of London’s newest venue King’s Place. Classical cellist Cara Berridge
features on this work. The trio CD is a stunning mix of Simcock compositions and brilliant
interpretations of great classics such as “Black Coffee” and “Cry Me A River”.
Gwilym says “recording an album is like taking a photograph. An album is a document of a specific
moment in time, a vignette, an insight into the stage that one as a musician has reached. This album
marks both the beginning of a fresh journey with a new trio, and documents my continuing quest
towards finding an individual voice as a solo pianist.
All of this music is neither 'Jazz' nor 'Classical'. It is just music What I feel is important in music is
lyricism, subtlety and clarity in harmonic and rhythmic movement, and an overall sense of an
emotional connection with the listener, whatever the context of the music may be”.
“Just when you thought the piano could go no further in jazz one emerges to raise the bar of invention and virtuosity still higher. On this recording Gwilym Simcock seems to have breached a dam of inhibition and let loose a flood of music that is truly exhilarating”.
Helen Mayhew, Jazz FM
Track Listing CD 1:
Little People / Exploration on Mvt. II of Grieg Piano Concerto / On Broadway / Improvisation I
- Statues / Improvisation II – Letter to the Editor / Improvisation III -Be Still Now / Caldera / Jaco and
Joe / Suite for Cello and Piano: Part 1 - Kinship / Part 2 - Homeward
Track Listing CD 2:
Introduction / Tundra / Blues Vignette / Black Coffee / Longing To Be / Nice Work If You Can
Get It / Cry Me A River / 1981
Personnel:
GWILYM SIMCOCK - Piano, YURI GOLOUBEV - Double Bass, JAMES MADDREN - Drums |
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