Andrew McCormack
Born (1978-03-24) 24 March 1978
London, England
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)Piano
Websitemccormackmusic.com

Andrew McCormack (born 24 March 1978) is a British jazz pianist.

Biography

McCormack recorded his debut album Telescope in 2006 and was awarded BBC Jazz Awards Rising Star in the same year. The London Symphony Orchestra commissioned a piece from him for a Barbican Centre concert in 2009 as part of their Panufnik Young Composers Scheme.[1] Since 2007, he has been a member of Kyle Eastwood's quintet. McCormack's second album, Live in London, was released by Edition in 2012.[2][3]

McCormack has performed[4][5] and recorded two albums with saxophonist Jason Yarde.

In 2014, McCormack performed as the Andrew MacCormack Trio with drummer Colin Stranahan and bassist Sam Lasserson.[6]

Reviewing McCormack's 2020 album, Solo, John Fordham described him as "one of UK jazz's most imaginative graduates of the inspirational and inclusive Tomorrow's Warriors education programme", saying that "McCormack's resourcefulness embraces a McCoy Tyner-like percussive power, a knack for giving familiar materials contemporary spins, and an inclination to fastmoving idiomatic scene-shifts within pieces – jazz-improv to baroque counterpoint, for instance."[7]

Discography

  • Telescope (Dune, 2005)
  • My Duo with Jason Yarde (Joy and Ears, 2009)
  • Places and Other Spaces with Jason Yarde (Edition, 2011)[8]
  • Live in London (Edition, 2012)
  • First Light (Edition, 2014)[6]
  • Graviton (Jazz Village, 2017)
  • Graviton: The Calling (Ubuntu Music, 2019)
  • Solo (Ubuntu Music, 2020)

References

  1. ↑ "London Symphony Orchestra - Panufnik Composers Scheme". Lso.co.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Andrew McCormack Trio: Live in London". The Guardian. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "thejazzmann.com". The Jazz Mann. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "Concert review: Meadow and McCormack & Yarde « thejazzbreakfast". Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Review: Andrew McCormack and Jason Yarde at The Vortex". Londonjazznews.com. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  6. 1 2 Fordham, John (15 July 2014). "Andrew McCormack Trio review". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  7. ↑ Fordham, John. "Andrew McCormack: Solo". Jazzwise. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  8. ↑ May, Chris (28 September 2011). "McCormack & Yarde Duo: McCormack & Yarde Duo: Places and Other Spaces". All About Jazz. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
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