Sound Frontiers: Gwilym Simcock
Donald Macleod is in conversation with composer and jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock. Including Those Are the Good Days, It Could Have Been a Simple Goodbye and A Kind of Red.
As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Donald Macleod speaks to five members of a new generation of British composers about their work. Featuring music by Anoushka Shankar, Gwilym Simcock, Helen Grime, Anna Meredith and Daniel Kidane.
Donald's joined today by composer and jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock (b 1981). Primarily a jazz artist, his ability to combine the art of improvisation with formalised structure has enabled him to straddle jazz and classical spheres in his compositions. His influences are equally wide ranging, from jazz legends including Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny, to classical composers including Maurice Ravel, Béla Bartók and Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Music includes:
Gwilym Simcock
Those Are The Good Days
Gwilym Simcock, piano
Gwilym Simcock & Mike Walker
It Could Have Been A Simple Goodbye
The Impossible Gentlemen
Gwilym Simcock
A Kind of Red
Delta Saxophone Quartet.
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Gwilym Simcock
These are the good days
- Good Days at Schloss Elmau.
- ACT.
- 1.
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Gwilym Simcock, Phil Donkin, Martin France, John Parricelli & Ben Bryant
Time and Tide
- Perception.
- Basho Records.
- 4.
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Sianed Jones & Gwilym Simcock
I prefer the gorgeous freedom - 3rd movement Innisfree
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Gwilym Simcock, Yuri Goloubev & Martin France
Industrial (for Alan) from "Move!"
- ACT: 9564-2.
- ACT.
- 5.
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Mike Walker, Gwilym Simcock & Adam Nussbaum
It Could have been a simple goodbye
- Let's Get Deluxe (The Impossible Gentlemen).
- Basho Records.
- 2.
Broadcast
- Tue 4 Oct 201612:00BBC Radio 3
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