Chris Conway Jazz

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Chris Conway is a superlative jazz pianist.
Modern, atmospheric ECM, blues, Latin and other styles mix, match & alternate.

He also is a wonderful jazz singer and writer of jazz songs.
Brazilian jazz singer Ithamara Koorax has recorded one of his songs.

He has also played with violin maestro Dr L Subramanium, legendary Finnish sax player Sakari Kukko (leader of Piirpauke band), Talvin Singh, Guy Barker, Andy Sheppard, Stan Sulzman, Martin Speake amongst others. He has recorded several jazz CDs and world jazz fusion CDs.

live jazz acts

solo
solo piano Jazz pianist extraordinaire - original compositions, standards and improvisations, atmospheric ECM stylings, blues, latin - he's got it all.	solo jazz singer & piano Piano and guitar backed jazz songs - many wonderful original Conway jazz songs plus some favourite jazz classics. CC's rich mellow voice is a truly great jazz voice.
bands
Chris Conway & Andy Nicholls Piano/guitar/voice and tenor sax - a great combination. Styles vary from ECM atmospherics to latin, world music touches, to straight-ahead jazz instrumentals and songs, classics and originals.	Chris Conway & Geoff Overon Classic jazz & blues songs. Head to head - two characters - chatty pianist/singer Conway and wiley blues guitarman & singer Overon give any venue that intimate after-hours feeling. Geoff has played with Eric Clapton, Ric Grech, and even played at Robert Cray's wedding.
The Chris Conway Band Sax, piano, bass, & drums and sometimes guitar propel Conway original instrumentals & songs with classic standards, often with hint of Latin in the mix.	Jazz Orient/Re-Orient Voice & dance, sitar & tabla, keyboards & guitar & flute - plus bass and drums for bigger gigs - an exotic East-West Jazz fusion mix - more here
CC also plays in duos with guitarist Andy Hagiioannu sax player David Graham singer Mellow Harmony Avstreih and is a member of the Freestyle Collective

chris conway's history in jazz

Chris Conway taught himself the piano as a child. Early influences were Tom Coster, Chick Corea, then Steve Kuhn & Richie Beirach before getting into avant garde realms in his college days, inspired by Howard Riley and Kieth Tippett.

He then formed bands - a trio Solaris, then another trio Happy Landings which was inspired by the ECM label artists like Arild Andersen's groups, Bobo Stenson, Rainer Bruninghaus etc. This became a quartet which became more mainstream. A collection from these years was gathered together and released on his Breathtaking CD.

All through this time he was blending his jazz East-West fusion groups, The Rain Garden and Jazz Orient/Re-Orient and others which slowly became the main outlet for his jazz music as his focus turned to singer-songwriting. The Jazz Orient/Re-Orient CDs represent this period and contain a number of his compositions.

Eventually, perhaps due to his increacing piano bar sets which he had never stopped doing, he returned to jazz, though often as a jazz singer and songwriter inspired by the interest in his songwriting shown by Brazilian singer Ithamara Koorax. He released a live set of songs Minute of the Hour.

He has also kept up an interest in improvised music which can feature jazz elements in an electronic setting, often featuring his theremin.

In 05 he releases a solo piano album Sanctuary - a collection of his atmospheric solo jazz piano music.
In 07 he released Chocolate Bossa - an album of jazz bossas featuring Ithamara Koorax and Thiago DeMello as guests

jazz - world music fusion cds
CLICK on album cover for more info, track listing and soundclips
Breathtaking	Minute of the Hour	Chocolate Bossa	River of Life	Sanctuary
.with others
Jazz Orient Bird Dancer	Jazz Orient Live at the South Bank	Re-Orient Indian World Music Fusion	Re-Orient Seven Steps To The Sun	Baluji Shrivastav & Re-Orient Re-Orient
The Rain Garden Ritual of the Sky People	Puleston & Conway The Healing Drum

jazz - improvised - avant garde cds
.CLICK on album cover for more info, track listing and soundclips
The Planet Scanners Live and Scanning	The Planet Scanners In Orbit	The Planet Scanners The Third Expedition	The Scanner Game Musici	The Scanner Game Courteous
Continuum Neptune	Continuum Best Kept Secret

compilation jazz/fusion cds
click 4 link		tracks featuring CC
	Melting Pot - global sounds from arc music ARC Music EUCD8660 2004	1 - Rendezvous With Rama
	Crossing Borders ARC Music EUCD1660 2001	2 CC tunes - Rendezvous With Rama & Bird Dancer - Re-Orient CDs. CD also features Larry Coryell, Trilok Gurtu
	ARC Music 25th Anniversary sampler ARC Music 2001	1 - Rendezvous With Rama