Music
Pianist/composer Gwilym Simcock's latest solo CD "Near And Now" is shortly due out on ACT Music. Last year, this busiest of jazz musicians collaborated with singer Kizzy Crawford and Sinfonia Cymru on the "Birdsong" project. He tours with the Pat Metheny Group, regularly performs with reed-player Tim Garland and is in great demand - along with Mike Walker, Steve Swallow and Adam Nussabaum - as one of The Impossible Gentlemen. Welsh-born Simcock also explains why, whenever he does get a break in his schedule, he heads for Berlin…