![]() ![]() ![]() They toured the UK and appeared at festivals in England and France. This group recorded four critically-acclaimed CDs, one of them, The Onliest, exploring the music of Thelonious Monk. He formed a trio with Tim Wells (bass) and Paul Clarvis (drums). Concentrating on this music, John gave concerts in the UK in concert halls, churches and universities, and appeared at major festivals in London, Le Mans and Clusone.įrom 1996, moving away from the freer improvising end of jazz, John Law began to be more involved with contemporary jazz and composition. The CDs received outstanding reviews around the world. The four-CD series Chants, Cornucopia CRCDS01 (Talitha Cumi, 1994, FMR CD06, Pentecost, 1996, FMR CD027, The Hours, 1997, FMR CD40 and Thanatos CRCD04) was based on plainchant and, as well as jazz, explored the history and techniques associated with classical piano as well as introducing certain harmonic elements derived from early and mediaeval music. While John Law was exploring the more radical and freely improvised areas of jazz he also began a series of solo CDs which were to lead him back to an exploration of his classical roots. John was also involved occasionally during this period with the Evan Parker Quartet.so full of joy that it can renew your faith not just in jazz, but music itself. They released the CD Extremely Quartet (Hat Hut CD6199) in 1997. ![]() A later quartet, formed 1993, with Paul Dunmall (saxophones), Barry Guy (double bass) and Louis Moholo, called Extremely Quartet, toured the UK and appeared at the 1998 Nickelsdorf Festival, Austria. With his own small groups John recorded and toured in the UK, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Russia, Lithuania and Belarus, including many festival appearances. The Jon Lloyd Quartet appeared on British radio, toured the UK opposite Bill Frisell, made three acclaimed CDs and played at festivals, including the 1995 FMP Festival, Berlin. ![]() The John Law/Louis Moholo Duo recorded the highly praised CD The Boat Is Sinking, Apartheid Is Sinking (Impetus 19322), appeared on British radio and toured extensively in the UK, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France and Canada, appearing at many major festivals. Despite winning an Austrian government scholarship to study in Vienna and receiving mentoring from an early classical influence, pianist Alfred Brendel, he turned to jazz in 1986, forming his first group ATLAS, a mainly freely-improvising trio.įrom 1986 to 1996 John concentrated more on the experimental end of jazz, particularly in his association with the South African drummer Louis Moholo, with the Jon Lloyd Quartet and with his own quartet. After winning an Open Scholarship he studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he won prizes for piano playing. John Law started classical piano aged four and performed first in public at six. combining the vocabularies of jazz and classical in a singular and seamless way, coalescing improvisational surprise and a deep elegiac musicality. You wonder if there is actually anything that this pianist cannot do. technical bravura with crystal clear, fast passagework coupled with a sovereign command over everything that is pianistically possible. John’s main projects currently are his acclaimed quartet Congregation, featuring Mercury Prize nominee James Mainwaring and playing John’s original music, bringing together acoustic and electronic music, his all-acoustic quartet Re-Creations, featuring Parliamentary Jazz Award winner Sam Crockatt, playing versions of tunes from jazz/pop/classical and Renaissance, an ambient, electronic keyboards project with saxophonist Jon Lloyd and visual artist Patrick Dunn, playing improvised music over samples created out of sacred vocal music from the 15th and 16th centuries.Īn interesting and highly gifted maverick musician Alfred Brendel One of this country's most imaginative young pianists The Times When he records for ECM he'll become a star Jazzthethik, Germany. He has played at over fifty festivals worldwide including North Sea Jazz Festival (Rotterdam), Delhi International Jazz Festival and London Jazz Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and in clubs and concert halls all over the UK, mainland Europe, North America and beyond, working with musicians as diverse as Gwilym Simcock, Andy Sheppard, Jason Rebello, Tim Garland and Evan Parker. John Law, a prize-winning classical prodigy on piano, turned away from classical piano studies to pursue jazz and improvised music when he was 23 and has been involved in, and acclaimed for, a wide variety of contemporary jazz and classical projects: from solo piano concerts and albums, through trio and quartet tours and recordings, right through to large scale works for his semi-classical ensemble Cornucopia. ![]()
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