play

Swansea Jazzland 'Gwilym Simcock Trio plays Jaco Pastorius'

At Swansea Grand Theatre, Swansea · 1 performance from Wed 7 Oct to Wed 7 Oct.

Gwilym Simcock is one of the most gifted pianists and imaginative composers on the European scene. He moves effortlessly between jazz and classical music, with a ‘harmonic sophistication and subtle dovetailing of musical traditions’. Gwilym has been hailed as a pianist of ‘exceptional’, ‘brilliant’ and ‘dazzling’ ability, and his music has been widely acclaimed as ‘engaging, exciting, often unexpected, melodically enthralling, complex yet hugely accessible’, and above all ‘wonderfully optimistic’. Laurence Cottle's musical journey began at a young age when he took piano lessons before moving o