„Gwilym Simcock is one of the best jazz players to come out of the U.K. in recent years [and] Near and Now serves as an intimate showcase for Simcock’s musical style, which blends highly narrative compositions with vivid, exploratory improvisations.“
Common and Kind returns to the Union Chapel in 2019 for a fourth extraordinary concert, connected to a series of partnership workshops bringing together schools, adult choirs, refugees & asylum seekers.
What does 3 beautiful Steinway Pianos, 264 keys, 6 hands sound like? Check out this masterpiece exclusively written and performed by Gwilym on 3 pianos across 3 different London PizzaExpress Live venues
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Gwilym will be touring in the US, UK and Mainland Europe celebrating his forthcoming solo piano album “Near and Now”. The touring starts in late February but there will be dates throughout the year.
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Gwilym has recently written an hour long suite of music “The Sawgrass Suite” for the NDR Big Band which will be performed in Hamburg on 9th May
There will be a second performance on Saturday 2nd Feb at LSO St Luke’s
Article and more photos at London Jazz News
Gwilym has long been an admirer of Pablo Held but they have never played together. Both were very much influenced by the late John Taylor. This year they will be teaming up at the Steinway Festival on Tuesday 19th March at Pizza Express Jazz Club.
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Gwilym is delighted that again his band will back the finalists in this year’s BBC Young Jazz Musician. This year it will be part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.
This year’s finalists will perform with Gwilym, jazz bassist and composer Paula Gardiner and jazz drummer and composer Asaf Sirkis.
Gwilym will play a set with vibraphonist Joe Locke at Kings Place on 5th September before the album launch of a new album out on Basho “Hourglass” featuring new music by Austrian composer Johannes Berauer. Gwilym also features in the Hourglass quintet together with Mike Walker on guitar, Thomas Gould on violin, Martin Berauer on electric bass and Bernard Schimpelsberger on percussion and drums.
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Gwilym played a solo concert at the incredible Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris on 3rd May 2018. The spectacular building was designed by Frank Gehry and was opened in 2014 as a cultural centre for the citizens of Paris.
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