Less than a month after winning an Ivor composition award for 'The Caged Bird' pianist and composer Nikki Iles is also, announced in the Queen's New Year Honours list, to become a recipient of a B. E. M, a medallist of the Order of the British Empire, for services to music.
Well-known pieces by the Dunstable born 58-year-old composer, bandleader and academic whose playing style and pastoral sensibility to some shares a strong affinity with the music of John Taylor includes the ‘Printmakers Suite’ for the Creative Jazz Orchestra and extensive work for the jazz piano Associated Boards curriculum.
- Nikki and the iconic singer Norma Winstone along with saxophonist Stan Sulzmann and bassist Dave Green perform ''A Time Remembered: The Music of Bill Evans'' at Pizza Express Jazz Club in London on 13 January
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