Gwilym Simcock: 'If I couldn't do this, I'd jump off a cliff'

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 identification parade, you almost certainly wouldn't go for the boyish and sprucely groomed Gwilym Simcock. A lot of jazz musicians acquire an air of embattled road-weariness, which they couple with a deadpan Bill Baileyish relish for the bleakly ludicrous – ...

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