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LIAM NOBLE talks to Chris Searle about his new album The Long Game
Mr Versatility: Liam Noble
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The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
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OF ALL British jazz pianists, Liam Noble is perhaps the most versatile. I’ve heard him play brilliantly reinvented solo versions of Wouldn’t It be Loverly? and Body and Soul and soon after performing in free-wheeling gigs with some of the most avant-garde improvisers.
Lambeth-born, he started piano lessons at seven and after “hacking” through Beethoven “and thereby ruining some of my favourite music,” he discovered Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Earl Hines and Duke Ellington, who opened up the world of jazz to him.
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