JAZZ at THE GEORGE: The Jim Blomfield Trio, Wednesday 18 February, 8.00pm
A much in demand player, Jim Blomfield is widely recognised as one of the UK’s finest jazz pianists with a repertoire spanning contemporary jazz, prog-influenced electronica and, increasingly, Latin Jazz.
Jim started classical piano lessons at a young age, but it was only around the age of eighteen that he decided to study music more seriously. His combined skill in improvisation and classical technique came to fruition when he enrolled on a music degree course at Dartington College of Arts, where he studied not only jazz piano but also composition, twentieth-century classical music and the Balinese Gamelan.
Since moving to Bristol in 1991, Jim has become recognised as an exciting, versatile and engaging pianist, appearing with stalwarts of the Bristol scene such as Andy Hague and Kevin Figes and at numerous venues and festivals up and down the country. A highly acclaimed Salsa and Latin pianist, he also performs with Cuban trumpeter Michel Padron, the eighteen-piece Dockside Latin Orchestra and Bristol Salsa Orchestra.