Gwilym Simcock

Guardian Music — Jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock performs a track from his latest solo album, Good Times at Schloss ElmauBen KapeAndy Gallagher more info

Guardian Music — Radio 1 DJ announces new award to celebrate the year's best album by a Welsh artistRadio 1 DJ Huw Stephens has announced a new award to celebrate the year's best album by a Welsh artist. Modeled on Scandinavia's Nordic Council music prize and Canada'... more info

Guardian Music — Warm Brains, LondonThere are a million shades to a British indie rock occasionally thought of as uniformly grey, and whether as producer or musician, Rory Attwell has roamed across this spectrum. A one-time member of the shortlived Test Icicles and l... more info

Guardian Music — Of the 12 albums on the Mercury shortlist, 11 can be listened to in full, for free, on SpotifyThese days, as soon as the Mercury shortlist is revealed, you can go online and decide whether the judging panel is talking nonsense or not. Of the 12 album... more info

Altsounds — Gwilym Simcock - Good Days at Schloss Elmau 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize – An Album of the Year Pianist Gwilym Simcock's solo album Good Days at Schloss Elmau has been nominated for the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize as one of the 12 best... more info

Guardian Music — (Basho)Last year, this world-class Anglo-US quartet (touring the UK until 23 June) first unveiled the breadth of its appeal – from byzantine contemporary bebop to raw, Hendrix-like guitar blues by way of Pat Metheny's lyricism and Gwilym Simcock's... more info

Guardian Music — Pizza Express, LondonThe word is that every night of the current UK tour by the Anglo/US quartet the Impossible Gentlemen has been different so far, and given the technical firepower of the individuals and their swashbuckling confidence, it seems lik... more info

Guardian Music — The Horrors, On tourIt was obvious when they appeared on NME's cover in 2006 in Victorian gaoler chic that the Horrors had something, although what that might be wasn't clear from the endearingly rubbish garage-goth rumble of their debut. However, th... more info

Guardian Music — (Basho)When you're dealing with this level of accomplishment, generations mean nothing. The Impossible Gentlemen are four musicians: pianist Gwilym Simcock (30), guitarist Mike Walker (48), drummer Adam Nussbaum (55) and bassist Steve Swallow (70).Ea... more info

Guardian Music — (ACT)Gwilym Simcock is an admirer of the remarkable Iiro Rantala, Finland's best-known jazz pianist, and you can hear why. Like the younger Simcock, Rantala's solo work draws on classical music as much as jazz, and fizzes with glittering contrapuntal... more info