TIM RICHARDS

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London-based pianist Tim Richards has been a presence on the UK and international jazz scene since the early 1980s.

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,
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TIM RICHARDS Spirit Level : Mice in the Wallet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Spirit Level : Mice in the Wallet
Hard Bop 1982
TIM RICHARDS Spirit Level: Proud Owners album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Spirit Level: Proud Owners
Hard Bop 1984
TIM RICHARDS Spirit Level : New Year album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Spirit Level : New Year
Hard Bop 1990
TIM RICHARDS Spirit Level : On the Level album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Spirit Level : On the Level
Hard Bop 1994
TIM RICHARDS The Other Side album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Other Side
Hard Bop 1998
TIM RICHARDS Great Spirit : Suite for The Shed album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Great Spirit : Suite for The Shed
Hard Bop 1999
TIM RICHARDS Tim Richards' & Sigi Finkel's Soundscape : Shibop album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tim Richards' & Sigi Finkel's Soundscape : Shibop
Hard Bop 1999
TIM RICHARDS Twelve by Three album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Twelve by Three
Hard Bop 2003
TIM RICHARDS Great Spirit : Epistrophy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Great Spirit : Epistrophy
Hard Bop 2005
TIM RICHARDS Shapeshifting album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Shapeshifting
Hard Bop 2010
TIM RICHARDS Tim Richards' Hextet : Telegraph Hill album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tim Richards' Hextet : Telegraph Hill
Hard Bop 2014

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TIM RICHARDS Spirit Level : The Swiss Radio Tapes album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Spirit Level : The Swiss Radio Tapes
Hard Bop 1988

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