St Mary's Perivale Events details

Thursday 26 June 2.00 pm

Gareth Williams (piano/vocals)
Dave Green (bass)

present a Jazz afternoon....

Programme to be announced.

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or watch the recording on YouTube

One of the most intensely creative, dynamic and exciting performers on the UK scene, Gareth Williams has been receiving increasing critical and public acclaim since the 90s: winner of the piano category in the 2013 British Jazz Awards. Described as “a jewel of a player... spinning out luminous introductions and codas” by (Jazziz Magazine USA) and “…a fantastic improviser” (John Fordham, The Guardian). An electrifying performer, he is the “embodiment of creative energy, a physical player… with a keyboard command that's both impressive and well-directed” (Peter Vacher, Jazzwise). He came to prominence as pianist for singer Claire Martin and as keyboard player/MD for jazz hip-hop band Us3. He has worked with many international jazz greats, including Art Farmer, George Coleman, Bud Shank, James Moody, Dave Liebman and Jerry Bergonzi, plus top British musicians such as Jim Mullen, Martin Taylor, Tommy Smith, Gwyneth Herbert and Iain Ballamy. For the last 15 years, he has toured the world with the late Pee Wee Ellis. His albums, THREE (live at Ronnie Scott's in 2001) and Shock! (Linn Records, 2009), were hugely successful. His latest album, Short Stories is out now on Miles Music. “Williams is a hugely gifted pianist, with an apparently endless fund of ideas” (Dave Gelly, The Observer). “A prodigiously talented pianist… a joyous, uncompromising celebration of sophistication, musicality, muscularity…” (Mojo Magazine).

Born 5 March 1942 in London. Dave Green's first important engagement as a professional musician was with the Don Rendell – Ian Carr Quintet, which he joined in December 1963. By the end of the decade he had established himself on the British jazz scene and was working concurrently with the bands of Stan Tracey and Humphrey Lyttelton. He remained with Humph for 18 years, from 1965 – 83. He has, since the 1960s, played and recorded with many of the great visiting American musicians including Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Sonny Rollins, Roland Kirk, Lee Konitz, George Coleman, Ruby Braff, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Benny Carter, Pee Wee Russell, Kenny Davern, Buck Clayton, Harry “Sweets” Edison. Barney Kessell, Jim Hall, Herb Ellis and many more. In the early 1980s he led his own group, ‘Fingers', which featured saxophonists Lol Coxhill and Bruce Turner together with pianist Michael Garrick and drummer Alan Jackson. He had a long musical association with Garrick from 1964, playing in the pianist's various groups alongside Henry Lowther, Art Themen, Trevor Tomkins and vocalist Norma Winstone. From 1985 Dave was involved with his childhood friend Charlie Watts in various jazz projects including Big Band, Quintet and Tentet. In 1998 Dave Green formed his own trio featuring Iain Dixon and Gene Calderazzo. He joined the Chris Barber Band in 2007 and stayed for three years. Since 1990 Dave has been a member of Scott Hamilton's Quartet, playing regularly with Scott in the UK and Europe. From 2009 to 2013 Dave toured Europe and America with the ABC&D of Boogie Woogie with Axel Zwingenberger, Ben Waters and Charlie Watts. In June 2013 they performed at the Lincoln Center in New York. Apart from his freelance activities Dave plays regularly with ‘Still Waters' a band led by his good friend trumpeter Henry Lowther, the Karen Sharp Quartet, the Alex Clarke Quartet, Hungarian pianist Matyas Gayer's trio and in duo with pianist Gareth Williams. Dave has been the recipient of numerous British Jazz Awards since 1987. In September 2014 he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Worshipful Company of Musicians.

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