Pianist David Gordon at Chandos Arms Jazz

“An awesome jazz musician, composing dazzling melodies with extraordinary harmonies, and playing with exceptional swing, demonstrating a brilliant virtuoso technique. His world-class playing has the reach and breadth of continual inventiveness and sensitivity.” Jazz Direct

David is an award-winning composer, a harpsichordist for the highest-level baroque orchestras, a world-touring tango-ist (?!) and one of the most creative contemporary jazz pianists you are ever likely to hear!

David writes: “I started piano lessons at age 4, composing at 6, and discovered jazz for myself at the keyboard one day at 10. The house where I grew up was always full of baroque music, and contained a harpsichord....

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“An awesome jazz musician, composing dazzling melodies with extraordinary harmonies, and playing with exceptional swing, demonstrating a brilliant virtuoso technique. His world-class playing has the reach and breadth of continual inventiveness and sensitivity.” Jazz Direct

David is an award-winning composer, a harpsichordist for the highest-level baroque orchestras, a world-touring tango-ist (?!) and one of the most creative contemporary jazz pianists you are ever likely to hear!

David writes: “I started piano lessons at age 4, composing at 6, and discovered jazz for myself at the keyboard one day at 10. The house where I grew up was always full of baroque music, and contained a harpsichord.
Jazz and baroque music have remained equally irresistible forces on me ever since.

While a mathematics student in Bristol in the mid to late 80s, I was fortunate enough to play with all the great musicians around, including Keith Tippett, Andy Sheppard and Jerry Underwood. If I hadn’t been a part of this thriving jazz scene, I would undoubtedly be a maths teacher in some school now.

Dance then saved my life. Playing for classes at various London dance schools taught me self-sufficiency as an improviser, really challenging my power to create – and the nature of suffering. And playing for rehearsals and performances – some of them including the really great ballet dancers – raised my game no end.”

‘a richly gifted player with a sparkling style and boundless imagination’ Independent on Sunday

‘one of our most brilliant pianists’ London Jazz News

with Steve Watts: bass • Jeremy Shoham: sax • Rick Finlay: drums

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