JOHN LAW
Music: J.S.Bach/John Law
Piano: John Law
Visuals: David Daniels
Performance of visuals: Patrick Dunn
With added
electronic ambient opening and closing bookends, Bach’s work is
presented on piano, with added visuals. The complete score,
including John’s added opening and closing compositions, has been
stylishly visualized, the film operated live to fit the live
performance of the music. The resulting experience is a deeply
moving one that goes right to the essence of the music contained in
this epic masterpiece.
In the first half
John will be performing original solo jazz compositions, partly
inspired by Bach, and also some original Bach, to tie in with the
Goldberg.
Biographical
Information:
John Law,
a prize-winning classical prodigy on piano, turned away from
classical piano studies to pursue jazz and improvised music when he
was 23 and has been involved in, and acclaimed for, his work in a
wide variety of contemporary jazz projects: from solo piano concerts
and albums through trio and quartet tours and recordings, right
through to large scale works for his semi-classical ensemble
Cornucopia. He has played at over fifty festivals worldwide and
recorded over thirty albums, working with musicians as diverse as
Gwilym Simcock, Andy Sheppard, Jason Rebello, Tim Garland and Evan
Parker. John’s main projects currently are his acclaimed
trio/quartet Congregation,
which has toured all over Europe, appearing to stunning audience
acclaim in concert halls, clubs and at festivals such as the North
Sea jazz Festival (Rotterdam) or the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London,
at the London Jazz Festival, as well as solo piano projects, his
electric project Boink! which combines electric keyboards, guitar,
saxophone and drums with electronic music soundscapes and live,
interactive visual backdrops and
Goldberg, his recreation, with added visuals, of Bach’s original
work.
"...combining the vocabularies of jazz and classical in
a singular and seamless way, coalescing improvisational surprise and
a deep elegiac musicality..." All About Jazz 2011
“An interesting and highly gifted maverick
musician”
Alfred Brendel
“One of this country’s most imaginative
young pianists”
The Times
“When he records for ECM he'll become a
star”
Jazzthethik, Germany
“...technical
bravura with crystal clear, fast passagework coupled with a
sovereign command over everything that is pianistically possible.
You wonder if there is actually anything that this pianist cannot
do.”
Jazz Podium Germany
1997
John Law - photo credit: Mel Day
