Jim Hart

Jim Hart (2017)

Jim Hart (* 1983 in Cornwall ) is a British jazz - vibraphonist , drummer and composer .

Live and act

Jim Hart began playing piano and drums at the age of four; at the age of ten he was occupied with jazz and harmony . From 1994 he attended Chetham's School of Music in Manchester . He was a finalist as a percussionist in the BBC contest of the Young Musician of the Year and won the John Dankworth Most Promising Musician Award . He then moved to London to study piano and drums at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama . He then worked for three years as the drummer of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and began to play the vibraphone under the influence of Joe Locke , initially with Gwilym Simcock . In 2002 he founded the Gemini formation with saxophonist Ivo Neame and began composing for the band. He was one of the founding members of the London music cooperative LOOP Collective , on whose label the first album Emergence was released. Hart also played as a drummer with John Dankworth and Cleo Laine ; He has also worked in the band projects Neon (with Stan Sulzmann and Gwilym Simcock), The Liquorice Allsorts (with Alan Barnes and Paul Clarvis ), the Ivo Neame Quartet, the New Jazz Couriers and the Tom Richards Jazz Orchestra, and also with Ralph Alessi , Michael Janisch and Marius Neset .

Prizes and awards

After receiving the British Jazz Awards (2006/07) as “Musician of the Year (Other Instruments)”, he was nominated for Musician of the Year for the British Parliamentary Jazz Awards in 2011 . In 2013 and 2014 he received further British Jazz Awards .

Velvet Revolution with Théo Ceccaldi , Daniel Erdmann , Jim Hart

Discographic notes

• Jim Hart's Gemini: Emergence (Loop Records, 2006)
• Neon: Here to There (Basho, 2007)
• Jim Hart's Gemini: Narrada (Loop, 2009)
• Jim Hart Quartet: Words & Music (Woodville Records, 2009)
• Neon Quartet: Catch Me (Edition Records, 2010)
• Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution: A Short Moment of Zero G ( BMC / Note 1 2016, with Daniel Erdmann, Théo Ceccaldi)
• Jim Hart & Alfred Vogel : Come Rain, Come Shine (2017)
• Jim Hart & Ivo Neame : Multiverse (Edition Records, 2020), with Matt Calvert

Web links

• Web presence
• Jim Hart at Allmusic (English)
• Jim Hart - The Art of Juggling . Interview in All About Jazz (2011)
• Portrait, photos and reviews from Edition Records

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jim Hart - The Art of Juggling . Interview in All About Jazz (2011)
2. ↑ Band portrait at Basho Music  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 301 kB)  
3. ^ Information (2010) in The Guardian
4. ↑ Vibraphonist Jim Hart Nominated For Musician Of The Year In Parlimentary Jazz Awards - April 6, 2011