Tom Cawley - piano
Sam Burgess - bass
Joshua Blackmore - drums
Influences
Brad Mehldau; Phineas Newborn, Jr.; Rufus Wainwright; Wynton Kelly; Ahmed Jamal; Django Bates; Debussy; Chopin; Schubert; J.S. Bach; Sufjan Stevens; James Taylor; Stevie Wonder; Paul Simon; Acoustic Ladyland; Polar Bear; Hermeto Pascoal; Students at the Royal Academy Of Music.
Sounds Like
Reviews of Closer:
"Intricate, witty and profoundly musical, Curios have become, within two albums, the most formidable piano trio in the UK." MOJO magazine
"Three sharp musical minds in perfect accord." The Obsever
"An album of subtelty and nuance, this is a quintessentially English type of treasure." BBC Music
"Puts the group up with the world-class practitioners of this intricate and intimate kind of jazz." **** The Guardian
"While lots of jazz pianists are technical whizzes, Cawley can touch the heart, too." The Times
"Continually compelling its dynamic variety, bristling energy and sheer musical adventurousness." vortexjazz.co.uk
"Closer shows off Cawley's improvising skills to dazzling effect." Metro
"As good a piano trio album as you're likely to hear all year." TheJazzMan.com
Welcome to the Curios myspace. Here should be all things Curios. Not quite though - at our website (www.curiosmusic.com) we have more music, pictures, biographical information, etc. At the label's website (www.impuremusic.com) we have more stuff still, including free dowloadable albums. Please visit them both.
More to the point though, we're a band that plays gigs and makes records and that sort of stuff. Forthcoming is our London Jazz Festival gig at the Purcell Room on the South Bank, on November 18th. We're rather excited about this one. Please consider going - it's going to be a goody.
Our band members are:
Tom Cawley - piano
Sam Burgess - bass
Joshua Blackmore - drums
We are currently the Best Band, according to the BBC Jazz Awards.
4-7 of June - FINDAMORALE FESTIVAL 2009, HOXTON, LONDON. with SUPER double bills from Paris on 5th and 6th of June featuring 1) - HADRIEN FERAUD (Bireli Lagrene, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea) and RUMEURS 2) - LINLEY MARTHE ( Joe Zawinul, Mino Cinelu, Dave Liebman, Trilok Gurtu, Richard Galliano) Project. You will have a rare chance to see these two bands on one night for the price of one! Only at CHARLIE WRIGHT'S INTERNATIONAL (45 Pitfield Street, N1 6DA). For more info call 07918635328 or go www.myspace.com/charliewrights
and his band ITALUBA playing two exclusive gigs at Charlie Wright's
on Sat 15th and Sun 16th of Nov as part of London Jazz Festival.
Horacio Hernandez has worked with McCoy Tyner and guitar icon Santana, yet he's revered for his ability to play four different rhythms at once in virtually any style.
Thank you so much for your friendship, and for listening to my music sounds! Wishing you a wonderful week ahead :)
Also, some exciting news - my new album, Meridians, has just been released on iTunes, Amazon. com & CDBaby. com! I'm very happy to be able to share it with listeners in a high-quality format. Just click on the links or image above to check it out...music like autumn leaves falling...
Greetings!! Just weeks away from Election 2008....Please check out our anti-Bush/McCain video (“Same Old Story”) and pass it on! # 32 on Neil Young’s “Living with War” video website page: http://www. neilyoung. com/lwwtoday/lwwvideospage. html Thanks!
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