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Bill Laurance

Live At Union Chapel

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Union Chapel Trailer
Red Sand
December in New York
Swift

Tour Dates

11/14/2019 - Royal Albert Hall / London, United Kingdom
03/04/2020 - Nasjonal Jazzscene / Oslo, Norway
03/05/2020 - Fasching / Stockholm, Sweden
03/12/2020 - Ronnie Scott's / London, United Kingdom
03/13/2020 - Ronnie Scott's / London, United Kingdom
03/19/2020 - Bimhuis / Amsterdam, Holland
03/20/2020 - Paradox / Tilburg, Holland
03/22/2020 - LantarenVenster / Rotterdam, Holland
1 The Rush  
2 Never-Ending City  
3 The Good Things  
4 December in New York  
5 Red Sand  
6 The Real One  
7 Swift  
8 Gold Coast  
9 Denmark Hill  
10 Swag Times  
11 Fjords  
12 Ready Wednesday  
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Recorded in late May 2015 in front of a live audience at Union Chapel in London, this powerful performance features the very best of this talented keyboardist's (and founding member of Snarky Puppy's) solo catalogue. Featuring Snarky Puppy bandmates Michael League (electric and upright bass) and Robert "Sput" Searight (drums), with contributions from percussionist Felix Higgenbottom and a full string section and French horn. This is a truly great contemporary jazz piano concert with nods to modal jazz icon Bill Evans, post-Coltrane piano giants McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock, and the fusion of Joe Zawinul & Chick Corea. Includes 90-minute concert DVD with behind the scenes footage during rehearsal, designing the set list, an interview with Michael League, and a tour of Sput's drum "castle."

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  • Bill Laurance mixes it up at Festival Gnaoua / jazzwise
    Posted At: July 13, 2017 12:00 AM

    The mid 20th century saw several jazz A-listers working with the Gnawa, the Sufi healer musicians of Morocco: Archie and Ornette, Randy and Pharaoh, But each year for the last 20 an array of free-thinking musicians from the Motherland and beyond have come to Essaouira, a whitewashed town of cawing gulls and cleansing winds tagged the 'jewel of the Atlantic', to jam with these mystical brotherhood...
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  • Bill Laurance Q&A with The National
    Posted At: January 23, 2017 12:00 AM

    Bill Laurance is waiting for no one. After a decade touring the world as a core member of genre-blurring, Grammy-winning sensation Snarky Puppy, the prodigious pianist/composer has struck out – releasing four solo albums in less than three years. The first, Flint, topped the iTunes jazz chart in the summer of 2014. The latest, Live at Union Chapel, collects the best of its three predecessors, brave...
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  • Bill Laurance - Live From Union Chapel / Jazz Weekly review
    Posted At: January 9, 2017 12:00 AM

    Away from the litter of Snarky Puppy, keyboardist Bill Laurance more than holds his own delivering his own material with a rich mix of acoustic swing and electronic grooves. He's got a joyful touch on the piano as Puppy drummer Rob Searight's ride cymbal cracks the whip and Michael League's bass solo goes deep on "The Rush." The team is able to create exciting waves that rise and relax like a w...
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  • Bill Laurance - Live at Union Chapel / WCHL: Radio review
    Posted At: January 8, 2017 12:00 AM

    Recorded in May 2015 and released this past November, Bill Laurance's "Live at Union Chapel" represents everything good about Grammy-winning artists. The politics of any award are often going to get in the way of giving credit where credit is due. We've seen it in #OscarsSoWhite and Iggy Azalea, in winners being chosen out of sheer popularity and sales numbers. "Art" and "talent" are large words, brimmin...
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  • Charlie Haden - Time Life & Bill Laurance - Aftersun make 'Dirty Dog: Top Jazz Releases For 2016'
    Posted At: December 30, 2016 12:00 AM

    Congrats to Charlie Haden – Liberation Music Orchestra & Bill Laurance. Your 2016 releases make 'Dirty Dog Best Of.' The last recordings with Charlie Haden and his Liberation Music Orchestra on disc for the first time, plus three works written by Carla Bley and recorded with LMO in the wake of Charlie's death. Released on Impulse!/ Verve, Time / Life: Song of the Whale...
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  • Bill Laurance - Live From Union Chapel makes 'Observer top 5 live jazz albums of 2016'
    Posted At: December 20, 2016 12:00 AM

    Ron Hart of The Observer gave some of his particular favorite highlights in live jazz albums from 2016, a cornucopia of unearthed treasures fit for the appetite of the most ravenous music collector. As a chief member of Snarky Puppy, keyboardist Bill Laurance is the funky heart of a giant machine. But this solo performance, shot and recorded in May of 2015 at London's historic Union Chapel, is a far ...
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  • Bill Laurance Project plays EFG Jazz Festival / LondonJazz
    Posted At: November 22, 2016 12:00 AM

    Bill Laurance couldn't stop smiling at Sunday night's 20th (November 2016) EFG London Jazz Festival gig in this newly refurbished performance space at Shoreditch Town Hall. It's easy to see why. Laurance is a founding member of one of the world's hottest jazz-influenced bands, Snarky Puppy. A co-winner of two Grammys with the same. He's been married just a month. His brand new CD/DVD Live at Union Chapel...
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  • Bill Laurance - Live at Union Chapel / The Panoptic review
    Posted At: November 19, 2016 12:00 AM

    As a founding member of Snarky Puppy and having heard their previous work, I knew that chances are, keyboardist Bill Laurance's new album Live At Union Chapel would be a strong one. The album was recorded live in May 2015 at Union Chapel in London, joined by Snarky Puppy bandmates Michael League on bass, Robert Searight on drums and by Felix Higgenbottom on percussion, with a full strings section an...
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  • Bill Laurance - Live at Union Chapel / Irish Times review
    Posted At: November 11, 2016 12:00 AM

    Being a core member and co-founder of Grammy-winning groove collective Snarky Puppy has certainly afforded keyboardist Bill Laurance the sort of creative freedom of which other jazz musicians can only dream, but so far the London-born pianist has used his clout wisely. Recorded live in a London church before an adoring hometown audience, his fourth solo release – two CDs and accompanying DVD &ndash...
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  • Bill Laurence plays Milano's JazzMi festival / Music News review
    Posted At: November 10, 2016 12:00 AM

    The JazzMi festival has many wonderful jazz artists playing in selected theatres all over Milano during a 10 day period this month. Tonight at the delightful Teatro dell'Arte, set in the Sempione Park was Snarky Puppy keyboardist Bill Laurence with his 4 piece who hit the stage in fine form, relaxed and ready to groove with their contemporary ambient jazz style with a pleasant soulful bent. Felix Higginb...
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  • Bill Laurance - Aftersun makes Global Village Top 40 for July
    Posted At: August 5, 2016 12:00 AM

    "It's a personal exploration. I'm discovering my own voice, my own sound all the time", explains Bill Laurance. "I get a kick out of that journey." That journey has led Laurance, an English native currently living in London, across the globe and through a myriad of award-winning musical projects. A world-renowned multi-instrumentalist, producer and vocalist dubbed a "jazz maestro" by The Gua...
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  • Bill Laurance set to play Ribble Valley Jazz Festival / Lancashire Telegraph
    Posted At: April 28, 2016 12:00 AM

    "IT was like some sort of surreal, crazy dream," recalled jazz maestro Bill Laurance who opens the seventh Ribble Valley Jazz Festival at Clitheroe's Grand Theatre tonight. "Snarky Puppy had been invited to play on a cruise ship in the South China Sea, and at the end of the set Quincy Jones came over said, ‘You know man, every time I hear Snarky Puppy play the sound makes my soul smile'. "I couldn'...
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  • LA's Jazz Bakery - Moveable Feast presents: The Bill Laurance Project / Jazz Weekly review
    Posted At: March 23, 2016 12:00 AM

    If jazz is going to get a foothold in the present generation's ipod, it is not going to be through mindless  and endless cacophonic solos, but through the type of accessible yet swinging music delivered by bands like Snarky Puppy. One of Snarky Puppy's litter, co-founder Bill Laurance, brought his quartet to the Moss Theatre for a vibrant set that had enough bona fide jazz for the hard core fan and ...
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  • Bill Laurance - Aftersun / theguardian review
    Posted At: March 13, 2016 12:00 AM

    Snarky Puppy pianist Bill Laurance has let the solo persona he introduced on painterly and cinematic journeys such as 2014's Flint and last year's Swift off the leash with Aftersun. It's an uninhibited jam on more succinct materials, featuring his Snarky Puppy rhythm-section partners Michael League and Robert Searight and the exciting St Louis-based Ghanaian Weedie Braimah, whose ha...
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  • Bill Laurance goes solo on Aftersun / Irish Examiner
    Posted At: March 11, 2016 12:00 AM

    Bill Laurance has taken a break from jazz heroes Snarky Puppy to work on some incredible solo material on his new GroundUp - Universal album - Aftersun. The album was saved by Miles Davis. The British pianist, and founder member of Snarky Puppy, tells of a crisis of confidence in the days before the recording session. "I had written about 50% of the album," he says, "and I just felt like I didn't have en...
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