JOHN LAW (PIANO)
Genres: Post-Fusion Contemporary, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post Bop, Third Stream, Nu Jazz, Classic Fusion • United Kingdom

John Law is a British jazz pianist and composer born in London, to British and Austrian parents. He started classical piano at the age of four, playing in public at the age of six. With early encouragement from the Austrian concert pianist Alfred Brendel he was awarded a scholarship to study piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied from 1979–1983, winning prizes for piano playing. After being awarded an Austrian government scholarship to study with the Viennese pianist Paul Badura-Skoda he studied for a year in Vienna at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien. It was in Vienna that he first came across jazz and decided to pursue a career in this field, hoping to combine his love of the piano and performing with his interest in composition. After some initial studies with Simon Purcell his early interest lay in freely improvised music. He performed read more...