Four Aces
Tim Richards Trio
The trio combine the classic with the contemporary and are clearly enjoying themselves throughout the album, which engages from the start and consistently hits the spot.
Four Aces
Tim Richards Trio
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The trio combine the classic with the contemporary and are clearly enjoying themselves throughout the album, which engages from the start and consistently hits the spot.
About
Jazz pianist Tim Richards releases his fourth TRIO album this month, featuring the new line-up of Alex Keen (bass) and Daniel Howard (drums).
Described in The Observer as a ‘cornerstone of British jazz’, Tim’s extensive career encompasses leadership of the long-running SPIRIT LEVEL quartet/quintet in the 1980s and 90s, followed by the nine-piece GREAT SPIRIT from 1999 and six-piece HEXTET, which featured between them the cream of British jazz musicians such as Ed Jones, Dick Pearce, Pete King, Tony Kofi, Gilad Atzmon, Jason Yarde, Seb Rochford, and many others.
Running alongside these larger ensembles, the more intimate setting of the piano trio offers Tim an opportunity to explore a range of attractive jazz styles, as well as being a vehicle for his original writing.
Contents and tracklist
- Tim Richards Trio
Awards and reviews
The trio combine the classic with the contemporary and are clearly enjoying themselves throughout the album, which engages from the start and consistently hits the spot.
The set wraps with Richards' infectious Blue Note styled New Cross Blues, it's not hard to imagine that one as the storming finale to a live performance.
On an album packed with so much quality music in terms of both playing and compositions, it is an impossible task to pick out favourite tracks as they change with each new hearing; but don't take my word for it, check it out for yourself.
Tim Richards is one of the great unsung heroes of British jazz and this is an unpretentious and highly enjoyable album that deserves to be widely heard.
