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Description: The award-winning London-based jazz pianist performs tracks from his album Perception.


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Dazzling technique from Gwilym Simcock and John Taylor

By Jack Massarik, Evening Standard  25.03.09
 
Gwilym Simcock and John Taylor

High-speed routine: Gwilym Simcock

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In a good week for home-grown talent, tenorist Dave O’Higgins and his mighty US guest Eric Alexander are at Ronnie Scott’s opposite singer Claire Martin, watched admiringly on Monday by Prince Harry. “Not bad for a gal from Colliers Wood,” gulped Claire. London’s leading pianists, meanwhile, discovered two new Steinways on this rival Dean Street bandstand.

Old master John Taylor and young pretender Gwilym Simcock were invited by manager Ross Dines “to release the colours of these superb instruments” after an opening set by altoist Peter King and tenorist Mornington Lockett, which was more duel than duet.

Their saxophone technique remains dazzling yet their high-speed routines are less enjoyable now than when these were fresh. As for their faithful solo party-pieces, Lush Life (King) and Chelsea Bridge (Lockett), please have mercy.

No such problems faced Taylor and Simcock, whose zestful versions of Maiden Voyage, Everything I Love, Black Narcissus and The Song Is You were full of two-handed originality. Better listeners than the saxmen, they dovetailed brilliantly without parroting each others’ phrases and also devised satisfying endings, something else beyond the reedmen, even with only two notes to think about.
Tonight: US vocal doyenne Sheila Jordan. (020 7439 0747).

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