Alexander Hawkins is a composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader unique in modern creative music. Regarded as one of his generation’s most innovative thinkers, his own unique sound world is shaped by a profound fascination with composition and structure, alongside a love of chance and open forms. His writing has been said to represent a fundamental reassertion of composition within improvised music, and his voice one of the most vividly distinctive in modern jazz. As a pianist, he has been described as possessing staggering technical ability and a fecund imagination. His Ensemble music, at the core of which often sits his long-standing trio, was said to be all the future jazz you might imagine without ever being able to conceive of the details.
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