NEAR AND NOW / Gwilym Simcock
ACT (2019)
Jazz / Piano Jazz
About Album
“Near and Now” is Gwilym Simcock's second full album for solo piano. Recorded at Simcock's home in Berlin, the pianist is aiming for an “honest and personal sound,” for which he cites Keith Jarrett’s home-recorded album “The Melody At Night, With You” as a model. The instrument is a newly-acquired Steinway “B” from around 1900, completely custom-rebuilt for Simcock by the Klangmanufaktur partnership in Hamburg. Each of the pieces on the album has another piano player as its dedicatee, his first jazz piano teacher and mentor included.
Song List
- 1. Beautiful Is Our Moment Part I ( Gwilym Simcock)
- 2. Beautiful Is Our Moment Part II ( Gwilym Simcock)
- 3. Beautiful Is Our Moment Part III ( Gwilym Simcock)
- 4. Before The Elegant Hour ( Gwilym Simcock)
- 5. You're My You ( Gwilym Simcock)
- 6. Inveraray Air ( Gwilym Simcock)
- 7. Many Worlds Away Part I ( Gwilym Simcock)
- 8. Many Worlds Away Part II ( Gwilym Simcock)
- 9. Many Worlds Away Part III ( Gwilym Simcock)
Comments
"...one of the most exciting and progressive British jazz musicians of our generation."
London Jazz News
"The pieces on 'Near and Now' are generally quite meditative ballads with blues inflections scattered throughout, allowing Simcock to achieve his goal of creating an 'honest and personal sound.”
Jazz Journal
