Tim Richards Trio

b. 23 June 1952, London, Britain. As a kid, Richards took traditional piano lessons but at age 14, after hearing Thelonious Monk and Otis Spann, he trained himself jazz and blues piano. In 1979, Richards created Soul Level in Bristol, with Paul Dunmall (tenor saxophone), Paul Anstey (bass), and Tony Orrell (drums). In 1982, the music group won first reward in the Dunkirk Jazz Celebration in France, attained recognition and achievement and its workers remained remarkably steady for ten years. By the end from the 80s, a re-formed Heart Level included Jerry Underwood (tenor saxophone), Tag Sanders (drums), and Andy Cleyndert (bass; afterwards changed by Ernest Mothle). A middle-90s version from the music group, that maintained Underwood and included Pete Kubryk Townsend (bass) and Kenrick Rowe (drums), toured throughout European countries. In 1999, Richards produced a fresh nine-piece music group, Great Heart. The previous calendar year, Richards had recognized a commission in the Shed, the arts center at Brawby, near Malton, North Yorkshire, which acquired opened up its jazz program many years previous with an appearance by Heart Level. Richards’ brand-new work, ‘Collection For The Shed’, was premiered at York School on 22 Oct 1999, the starting time of Great Heart’s two-month tour, where these were broadcast live with the BBC plus they also made an appearance on the London Jazz Celebration. The music group recorded the collection for an record, its personnel offering a number of the leading music artists of the existing London jazz picture, including trumpeter Dick Pearce, saxophonists Gilad Atzmon, Denys Baptiste and Tony Kofi, vibraphonist Roger Beaujolais, guitarist Dave Colton, bass participant Davide Mantovani, and drummer Dave Ohm. Baptiste didn’t make the tour, getting changed on different times by Ed Jones and Patrick Clahar. Another UK tour, in Feb 2001, adopted, the music group this time around including saxophonist Pete Ruler, bass participant Tom Herbert, and drummer Sebastian Rochford. Richards’ composing and his group’s playing mix earthy, blues drenched hard bop with smart contemporary jazz noises, the whole becoming vital and immediate and possessed of internal dynamics and great depths of spirit. From the first 80s, Richards performed as sideman with several leaders and rings, varying over blues, Latin jazz, funk, African music and modern jazz. Included in this are Asuri, Beaujolais, Coup D’Etat, Dana Gillespie, Earl Green, Grooveyard, Mornington Lockett, Tag Lockheart, Claire Martin, Jim Mullen, Roland Perrin, Todd Sharpville, Andy Sheppard, Barbara Thompson, Keith Tippett, Jean Toussaint and Theo Travis. In 1988, Richards experienced created a trio, with bass participant Townsend and drummer Rowe. Later on trio members consist of Dominic Howles (bass), and Andrea Trillo and Matt House (drums). Also in 1988, Richards became a member of Otis Grand’s Dance Kings, touring Western club and event venues and documenting Always Sizzling in 1988. He also made an appearance with guitarist Joe Louis Walker. In 1993, Richards created a quintet, the London Blues Music group, including Jon Taylor (acoustic guitar) and Brian Iddenden (tenor saxophone). In the mean time, Richards also founded an ongoing operating romantic relationship with Austrian saxophonist Sigi Finkel. This started in 1996 with two duo times for BBC Radio 3 and was accompanied by information and UK and Western trips. Richards and Finkel will also be co-leaders of Soundscape, another members of the quartet becoming Phil Scragg (bass) and Marc Parnell (drums). In 1998, Richards toured European countries with guitarist Larry Garner, and caused vocalist Kate Zaitz aka Q Bee. Furthermore to his functionality schedule, Richards in addition has been energetic in education for just two years, teaching jazz piano, blues piano and improvisation at several centres including London’s Goldsmiths University and Morley University. Many of his piano parts have been released within the Associated Plank Jazz Piano and Rock and roll College Popular Piano syllabuses. Additionally, Richards provides written many tuition books including Discovering Jazz Piano and Improvising Blues Piano. Richards’ musical passions are decidedly eclectic; furthermore to his jazz and blues composing and playing, in 1998 he constructed ‘Timetrap’, a modern traditional piece for violin, cello and piano. His range proceeds to increase convincingly along fronts that could noticed disparate in a smaller musician, but he provides to earthy blues exactly the same degree of musical integrity as whatever he provides to adventurous modern improvised music. Taking into consideration his profession in its totality, his organizational capability and travel, his carrying out and writing abilities, in addition to his dedication to music education, Richards continues to be as essential and significant within the jazz picture of the first 00s as he was through the entire previous 2 decades.