Dave Gelly 

Simcock & Goloubev: Reverie at Schloss Elmau – review

Gwilym Simcock and Yuri Goloubev's collaboration reaches near telepathic levels on this beautiful set, writes Dave Gelly
  
  


Gwilym Simcock has collected almost every jazz prize going, but his work, as both pianist and composer, ranges so widely that it amounts to a genre of its own. It combines the mercurial, improvised flow of jazz with the consistency and detail of European classical music. In Russian bassist Yuri Goloubev he has obviously found a collaborator with the same expansive imagination and equal virtuosity. The interplay between the two is like musical telepathy. These nine duets, with their changing moods, harmonic light-and-shade and fleeting melodies, are almost too rich to take in at one hour's listening.

 

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