Edward Simon

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Simplicity 00:00 Tools
Infinite One 00:00 Tools
The Process 06:53 Tools
Harvey Wallbanger 05:37 Tools
You're My Everything I 00:00 Tools
The Midst Of Chaos 05:23 Tools
Abiding Unicity 05:58 Tools
Uncertainty 08:01 Tools
The Messenger 07:16 Tools
Pathless Path 05:30 Tools
Not So Unique 05:05 Tools
Gevriasolas 07:25 Tools
Eastern 04:15 Tools
Incessant Desires 03:29 Tools
Invocation 00:54 Tools
Giant Steps 09:48 Tools
Fiestas 00:00 Tools
We Dream Oceans 07:28 Tools
My Love For You (Take 1) 03:29 Tools
Winter 07:09 Tools
Navigator 05:41 Tools
Eugenia's Theme (quartet) 06:02 Tools
Unknown Path 00:00 Tools
Roby 07:46 Tools
Abiding Unicity (Reprise) 03:01 Tools
The Cha Cha 02:24 Tools
Evolution 06:40 Tools
The Prayer 01:18 Tools
South Facing 09:05 Tools
Caballo Viejo 07:10 Tools
La Bikina 14:32 Tools
You're My Everything II 00:00 Tools
Passeggiata Nel Parco 07:36 Tools
Calabria 07:04 Tools
One For J.P. 05:18 Tools
Triumph 04:23 Tools
Pere 14:19 Tools
Fiestas (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
Exit 00:00 Tools
Quinta Anauco 10:46 Tools
Woody'n You 08:07 Tools
Intention 05:35 Tools
Poesìa 07:48 Tools
Azules 04:23 Tools
In Cerca Di Cibo 05:53 Tools
Colega 05:31 Tools
Valzer Lento 05:23 Tools
Nel Parco (piano Solo) 03:09 Tools
Eugenia's Theme 06:20 Tools
Uninvited Thoughts 08:11 Tools
My Love For You (Take 2) 03:20 Tools
Prelude N. 9 04:11 Tools
Diario Di Un Maestro (piano Solo) 03:36 Tools
Govinda 05:11 Tools
Passeggiata Nel Parco (reprise) 06:34 Tools
Poesia 07:49 Tools
I'm In The Mood For Love 06:03 Tools
Amnesia 09:55 Tools
Diario Di Un Maestro 03:41 Tools
Mi Querencia 09:47 Tools
Equanimity 13:45 Tools
Red 06:14 Tools
Reprocess 04:10 Tools
El Parrandero 07:33 Tools
Impossible Question Reprise 03:35 Tools
Ericka 06:51 Tools
Alma Llanera (part 1) 08:21 Tools
Slippin' & Slidin' 09:01 Tools
In Cerca Di Cibo (piano Solo) 03:56 Tools
Triangle 07:45 Tools
Triumphs 01:23 Tools
What if 01:23 Tools
Twenty Four Miles To Go 06:21 Tools
Alma Llanera (part 2) 06:00 Tools
Magic Between Us 08:46 Tools
Glad You`re Here 08:46 Tools
Teen's Romance 08:11 Tools
Civil War 06:17 Tools
Chant 07:29 Tools
Tonada del Cabrestero 04:06 Tools
Prelude N.9 04:11 Tools
Stop Looking to Find (it Finds You) 07:52 Tools
Kingpin 07:52 Tools
Azules Reprise 03:22 Tools
Venezuela Unida 07:29 Tools
Aguantando 09:08 Tools
Chovendo Na Roseira 13:45 Tools
El Manicero -Part 1 08:39 Tools
Rebirth 02:23 Tools
87.5% Of You 02:23 Tools
Beauty of Space 05:55 Tools
Vidala 01:11 Tools
El Manicero -Part 2 07:45 Tools
El manicero (The Peanut-Seller) 04:33 Tools
Sadness 01:23 Tools
Impossible Question 09:13 Tools
Triangle (with Afinidad & Imani Winds) 02:23 Tools
Way of No Return 02:23 Tools
Dawn Of Indifference 05:55 Tools
Country 05:55 Tools
Home 07:29 Tools
Prelude 04:08 Tools
Reflecting 01:18 Tools
Red Reprise 02:23 Tools
Maracaibo 04:53 Tools
Libertango 06:40 Tools
The End and The Beginning 06:40 Tools
True To Life 06:01 Tools
August 07:08 Tools
Caracas 05:55 Tools
Ask The Dust 06:25 Tools
Coast Of The Desert 04:53 Tools
Tonado Del Cabrestrero 05:55 Tools
Barinas 05:01 Tools
I Hear A Rhapsody 07:32 Tools
Remembrance 05:01 Tools
El Diablo Suelto 07:08 Tools
Feuer Tanz 00:46 Tools
Lover`s Park 00:46 Tools
Alfonsina y el mar 04:30 Tools
What We See 10:05 Tools
Immersion 03:57 Tools
Lifelong 00:46 Tools
Chega de Saudade 08:23 Tools
When You Return 02:43 Tools
Merida 02:43 Tools
Patheless Path 05:30 Tools
The Messanger 00:30 Tools
Gracias a la vida 06:02 Tools
Capullito de Aleli 00:54 Tools
Azules (Reprise) 05:30 Tools
Alma Lianera (Part 1) 08:23 Tools
En La Orilla Del Mundo 08:23 Tools
The Process - Instrumental 05:31 Tools
Uninvited Thoughts (with Afinidad & Imani Winds) 05:31 Tools
Volver 07:04 Tools
One For J.P 03:57 Tools
True To Life - Reprise 03:57 Tools
Danny Boy 04:06 Tools
Incessant Desires (with Afinidad & Imani Winds) 13:45 Tools
How Deep Is The Ocean 07:53 Tools
Equanimity (with Afinidad & Imani Winds) 13:45 Tools
Alma Lianera (Part 2) 06:02 Tools
El Manicero Part 2 07:47 Tools
I Fall In Love Too Easily 04:30 Tools
Venezuela Unida (with Afinidad & Imani Winds) 06:40 Tools
True To Life (Reprise) 06:40 Tools
One for Antonio 00:54 Tools
Triumphs (with Afinidad & Imani Winds) 06:34 Tools
Monk's Dream 07:04 Tools
Uncertaintly 07:04 Tools
Chovendo Na Poseria 13:45 Tools
Chant (with Afinidad & Imani Winds) 06:40 Tools
Rebirth (with Afinidad & Imani Winds) 05:31 Tools
Birthday Samba 03:08 Tools
Matriarch 05:28 Tools
Rare Days 05:28 Tools
Reprise 1 05:28 Tools
Arena (Sand) 05:59 Tools
Challenge within 07:25 Tools
She Moved Through The Fair 07:29 Tools
Mastery of All Situations 07:29 Tools
Poesía 07:48 Tools
Ballade 06:34 Tools
Did You get It? 07:16 Tools
Beauty of Space (with Afinidad & Imani Winds) 07:16 Tools
El Manicero Part 1 08:41 Tools
You're My Everything 1 08:41 Tools
Reprise 2 08:41 Tools
Beauty Within 08:41 Tools
Blame It On My Youth 07:33 Tools
Solar 06:40 Tools
You're My Everything 2 06:40 Tools
Fiestas(Reprise) 06:40 Tools
El Manicero I 06:40 Tools
In Search of Power 06:40 Tools
The calling 06:40 Tools
Mérida 06:40 Tools
Prelude N. 9 - Brian Blade 06:40 Tools
Inner Urge 05:31 Tools
Giant Steps (with John Patitucci & Brian Blade) [Live] 05:31 Tools
El Manicero 05:31 Tools
El Manicero (The Peanut Vendor) Part 1 05:31 Tools
El Manicero, Pt. 2 05:31 Tools
Homecoming 05:31 Tools
El dia en que me quieras 05:31 Tools
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Edward Simon was born in the coastal town of Punta Cardón, Venezuela where he grew up in a family of musicians surrounded by the sounds and rhythms of Latin and Caribbean music. The talent he showed as a youth led his father to send him to study in the US, where he won scholarships in classical piano at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia under the tutelage of concert pianist Susan Starr and in jazz at the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Harold Danko. While a student in his teens, Simon performed with Philly guitarist Kevin Eubanks and saxophonist Greg Osby. Settling in New York City in 1989, he performed with many jazz masters, including Herbie Mann, Paquito D'Rivera, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Watson, Terence Blanchard, Jerry Gonzalez and The Fort Apache Band, Arturo Sandoval, Many Oquendo and Libre and Don Byron. Simon quickly discovered that if he wanted to use jazz as a medium of expression he needed to immerse himself in this tradition. Membership in Bobby Watson’s influential group Horizon (1989-94) and the Terence Blanchard Group (1994-2002) were instrumental to this end during his formative years. The experience of playing with Paquito D'Rivera proved to be pivotal, as it sparked an interest in the music of his native country. Simon made his first recording as a leader in 1994 (Beauty Within, on Audioquest), giving birth to the Edward Simon Trio. That same year he became a Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition finalist. Since then he has written extensively for the trio, using it as a platform for other projects and developing his unique compositional voice. In 1995 Edward received his first commission and composed Rumba Neurótica for Relache. In recognition of his distinctive accomplishments, Chamber Music America awarded Edward Simon the New Works: Creation and Presentation grant to compose the Venezuelan Suite. In recognition for his outstanding work in jazz composition. In 2005, he received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship. Simon has served as adjunct faculty at the University of the Arts and continues to teach clinics, seminars and workshops at music schools and universities around the world. Currently, he serves as adjunct faculty at The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music in New York City. Simon has participated on more than forty recordings, including several Grammy nominated albums, lead by jazz greats such as Terence Blanchard, John Patitucci, Bobby Watson, and Herbie Mann among others and numerous soundtracks. He has produced seven critically acclaimed albums as a leader including two New York Times Top Ten jazz records of the year: Edward Simon (Kokopelli, 1994) and Simplicitas (Criss Cross, 2005). Today, Simon keeps himself busy writing for and leading his trio, Ensemble Venezuela, Afinidad - a quartet co-lead with long time collaborator saxophonist David Binney and Simon, Simon & Simon, a project co-lead with his two brothers. Simon is a 2008 fellow in Music Composition from the New York Foundation for the Arts and has received a commission from Chamber Music America to compose a work for Afinidad. While he may be considered as part of a new generation of “multilingual” musicians which have grown up studying classical, jazz and Latin American music, Edward is inventing a language that transcends any rigid genre. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.