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UK TOUR OCTOBER 2013

Gwilym Simcock, Mike Walker, Adam Nussbaum, Steve Rodby

"The upper echelon of the jazz world is a place of constantly shifting alliances. But even by those standards, the Impossible Gentlemen is a rare and fabulous group of talents" The Times

The Impossible Gentlemen

29/06/2012 London Jazz

I don’t think I’ll hear a more memorable gig this year so they are worth travelling a long way for.

Album number two - to be produced by Steve Rodby (interviewed here)- is being recorded in the next few weeks – I’m in a state of aural salivation.
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27/06/2012 David Sinclair, The Times 4 stars****
The upper echelon of the jazz world is a place of constantly shifting alliances. But even by those standards, the Impossible Gentlemen is a rare and fabulous group of talents. Read More

14/06/2011 Jack Massarik, Evening Standard 5 stars *****

Crazy name, crazy group, but crazy like foxes. An OBE, please, for the anonymous producer who thought to introduce two US veterans, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Adam Nussbaum, to a couple of Mancunian mavericks who had never worked together before.
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"Packing more into eight tracks than many could manage in that number of albums ...it’s simply outstanding" BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 5 STARS *****

"This shimmering jewel of style and substance is jazz at its most exalted, and simply has to be heard. Here's a crude and approximate map reference, but one that gets close to the buried treasure.  Imagine guitarist Pat Metheny's trio masterpiece, Day Trip (Nonesuch, 2007), add a pianist of commensurate genius, and you are banging on the disc's front door. It is that good".

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VOTED MOST MEMORABLE GIG IN 2010 BY THREE OUT OF FIVE JOURNALISTS IN JAZZUK.

VOTED BEST GIG OF 2010 BY PETER BACON IN THE BIRMINGHAM POST AND AT THE JAZZ BREAKFAST

 

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