Audio You are listening to Fish Wish - a duet with saxophonist Ed Jones from the Epistrophy CD. To pause this recording, click on the MP3 player above. There's more audio at the bottom of this page, also on the CDs/Music and Composition pages, and on Tim's Soundcloud page. Latest Recording
Cindy Douglas with the Tim Richards Trio Previous Recording
Tim Richards Trio CDs available from
Latest publication Exploring Latin Piano, a collaboration with pianist John Crawford, published by Schott Music on 20 October 2010.
Exploring Jazz Piano was published by Schott in 2005. It won the Music Industry Association (MIA) award for 'Best Pop Publication 2006'. Vol 1 deals with jazz basics up to and including ninth chords; Vol 2 deals with more complex harmony and takes things up to professional level. Tim's first book, the highly acclaimed Improvising
Blues Piano was published in 1997 by Schott Music. |
London-based pianist Tim Richards has been a presence on the UK and international jazz scene since the early 1980s. His style has been described as:
Tim's first encounter with a piano was at the age of 8 in a dentist's waiting room. After classical piano lessons he began to teach himself jazz and blues from the age of 14, when he saw Thelonious Monk and Otis Spann on TV. In 1979 he formed the seminal modern jazz group Spirit Level, a band that toured the Britain and Europe extensively in the 1980s and 90s, released seven albums, and was nominated 'Best Small group' in the 1995 British Jazz Awards In recent years, Tim has won acclaim as a composer and arranger, developing ideas in the larger instrumental setting of his nine-piece band Great Spirit, which has featured key players on the British scene such as Pete King, Ed Jones, Gilad Atzmon, Denys Baptiste, Tony Kofi, Jason Yarde, Roger Beaujolais, Seb Rochford and many others. The band released their second CD Epistrophy (33Jazz120) in 2005 (5-star online review) and toured the UK for the fourth time in November 2006 with Finnish saxophonist Jari Perkiomaki, with the help of a New Music award from the PRS Foundation.
Tim has a Masters Degree in composition from London's Trinity College of Music, and has also written pieces for a wide variety of non-jazz ensembles, from string quartet to symphony orchestra, also collaborating with dancers and filmmakers. To hear a selection, go to the Composition page. Tim Richards Trio - UK Tour Jan/Feb 2011 In a more straight-ahead vein, the Tim Richards Trio have been entertaining audiences from Istanbul to Inverness since the mid 1980s. The trio's third CD Shapeshifting is out now on 33Jazz. Here's the trio playing the title track shortly after their recent UK tour in 2011:
An earlier YouTube clip can be seen here: Tim also enjoys playing blues and has toured and recorded with many well-known blues artists including the award-winning Otis Grand, Dana Gillespie, Earl Green, and US guitarists Joe Louis Walker and Larry Garner.
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Free sample piano lessons • Thickening the Melodic Line Interview Feature by Alyn Shipton in PIANO magazine, May 2006 |
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BBC Radio 3 Jazz Library These can be heard by clicking on the mp3 player (right) - each progremme is in two 30-minute sections. If Fish Wish is already playing, please pause it in the player at the top of the page before listening to Jazz Library. . |
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