East Grinstead Jazz Club is delighted to be featuring The Adrian York Trio with conversations with Bill.

Adrian’s new project is a show with his trio Conversations with Bill, an exploration of and dialogue with the repertoire and recordings, compositions and piano style of one of the greatest and most distinctive of all jazz pianists, Bill Evans.

Dr Adrian York began his musical career in the early 1980s as a member of the chart-topping swing-pop band Roman Holliday. He then worked for a plethora of artists from the worlds of pop, jazz and light entertainment including Working Week, Jimmy Ruffin, Darts, Mari Wilson, Sandie Shaw, Seal, Lisa Stansfield, Lilly Savage, Michael Bolton, Shirley Bassey, Paul Young, and Girlstalk to name just a few. In the jazz world Adrian has performed with Ian Shaw, Ronny Jordan, Jean Toussaint, Tim Garland, Tina May and Alan Barnes as well as being musical director for a host of JazzFM live acts.