Guardian Music — (ACT) Unaccompanied piano performance is a challenge 30-year-old Gwilym Simcock hasn't confronted since his childhood classical training, and one that's all the greater because it invites comparison with a significant personal influence: Keith Jarret... more info

Guardian Music — Gwilym Simcock is not your average jazz star. After being classically trained, he found his true calling in the communal and anarchic spirit of improvIf you had to pick a jazz musician – or any other kind of social deviant – out of an identificat... more info

Guardian Music — (Act)Gwilym Simcock is a stupendous improviser and a remarkable musician all round. He was a teenage classical piano prodigy when he discovered jazz and now, at 29, he has collected most of the British jazz awards going. But, left alone with a piano,... more info

The Telegraph — Gwilym Simcock's Good Days at Schloss Elmau is in turns gloopy and formidable. Rating: * * * more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offThe Smiths Reel Around the Fountain A collection of Smiths demos that circulated on the web this week offered a reminder of what a phenomenon they were: a band who emerged... more info

Guardian Music — (Basho)The Royal Academy of Music's jazz courses are producing some quirky young players, and this session from composer and saxophonist Trish Clowes features various small jazz groups plus a big classical ensemble under the direction of the Heritag... more info

Guardian Music — Various venuesThere's hardly a festival this year that isn't homing in on the 200th anniversary of Schumann's birth, but Cheltenham's focuses on his mental illness and that of three other composers, Gesualdo, Wolf and Mahler, whose anniversaries also... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonJazz supergroups are volatile concoctions, bespoke teams of virtuosi often just getting in each other's way. But the Anglo-US quartet built from scratch this week around the untried partnership of pianist Gwilym Simcock and Sal... more info

All About Jazz — All About Jazz is celebrating Gwilym Simcock's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Gwilym Simcock"I feel confident that Simcock already deserves to occupy the inner circle of the great contemporary pianists along with Mehldau, Jarrett, and Rub... more info

Guardian Music — (Fuzzy Moon)The reputation of the expat Canadian composer John Warren rests mostly on some sumptuous big-band music under his own name in the early 1970s, fine writing for John Surman's larger groups, then influential teaching work in his adopted Yor... more info