Tuesday, 5 May, 2009

8.30 - 11.00pm
£4 on the door

Jim Hart was born in Cornwall, and began learning piano and percussion at the age of four. Taking an early interest in jazz he was playing both drums and piano in the Tamar Youth Jazz Orchestra when he was eleven. He now plays regularly with Martin Drew's New Jazz Couriers, Stan Sulzmann, Gwilym Simcock, Alan Barnes, Paul Clarvis and the Matt Wates Sextet. Jim was the winner of a 2007 British Jazz award, the 2006 British Jazz award for 'Rising star' and the 2006 Worshipful Company of Musicians Jazz medal. "His vibes playing is a revelation" - Alyn Shipton, The Times." Hart has developed an impressively individual voice, using a four mallet technique that allows him to switch between pointed chords and mellifluous runs with ease" - Daniel Spicer, Jazzwise.

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