Chris Conway -
jazz & piano music



Chris Conway is a superlative jazz pianist.
Modern, atmospheric ECM, blues, Latin and other styles mix, match & alternate.

He also is a wonderful jazz singer and writer of jazz songs.
Brazilian jazz singer Ithamara Koorax has recorded one of his songs.

In jazz he has worked with Guy Barker, Andy Sheppard, Stan Sulzman, Martin Speake, Talvin Singh, Dr L Subramanium, and the legendary Finnish sax player Sakari Kukko (leader of Piirpauke band) amongst others.

Want to book Chris Conway to play piano or sing jazz songs at a special occasion or jazz venue? - check his agent's bookings page.

Jazz Albums
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Piano Plus...
Chris Conway - When Pianos Dream
When Pianos Dream
Chris Conway - Through Mirrors We Met
Through Mirrors We Met
Chris Conway Piano Dreamer
Piano Dreamer
Chris Conway CD Retracing My Steps
Retracing My Steps

4am
Solo Piano
Chris Conway - Little Introspections album
Little Introspections
25 piano improvisation
miniatures
Chris Conway Spring Full Moon Solitude
Spring Full Moon Solitude
piano improvisations
Chris Conway - Nocturnes
Nocturnes
piano improvisations
Chris Conway - A Full Moon Summer Night's Dream
A Full Moon Summer Night's Dream
piano improvisation

Chris Conway Outside In
Outside In
piano improvisation
+ outside sounds
Chris Conway - Midnight Window Blue
Midnight Window Blue
piano improvisations
Chris Conway Piano
Piano
download only

Glisten
piano improvisations
Chris Conway CD Piano Natural
Piano Natural / Sanctuary
piano compositions
 
Jazz Groups
with Andy Nicholls
Chris Conways Happy Landings
Chris Conway Quartet
Chris Conway & Andy Nicholls - Pathways
Pathways
piano & saxophone improvisations
Chris Conway's Happy Landings Think Blue Count Two
Think Blue, Count Two
Chris Conway's Happy Landings Sky High
Sky High
Chris Conway's Happy Landings Meet You there
Meet You There
Chris Conway Quartet Who Cares?
Who Cares?
with Leaf Storm
Quartet & HL compilation
     
Leaf Storm Dwellers In the Mirage?
Dwellers in the Miirage
Chris Conway Band - Breathtaking CD
Breathtaking
     

Jazz Songs / Bossa
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with Jodi Krangle
Chris Conway
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Jodi Krangle Time Will Tell
Time Will Tell

Chocolate Bossa
Chris Conway - Minute of the Hour CD
Minute of the Hour
jazz songs live

Déjà Blue
jazz songs
 

World Music Jazz Fusion
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with Re-Orient
Conway & Puleston

Undiscovered Time

Re-Orient
Re-Orient - Seven Steps To The Sun CD
Seven Steps To The Sun

Indian World Music Fusion
Chris Puleston & Chris Conway - The Healing Drum CD
The Healing Drum
with Jazz Orient
with The Rain Garden
Jazz Orient - Live at the South Bank CD
Live at the South Bank
Jazz Orient - Bird Dancer CD
Bird Dancer

Dangerous Ground

India

Ritual of the Sky People
with The Rain Garden

Cosmic Engineers

Live

Closer To The Flame

Practical Candle Magic
The Rain Garden Back Of Beyond
Back Of Beyond

Jazz Influenced Electronic / Improvisation / Avant Garde
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with Audible Light
 
with Bridge
Audible Light - Convergence
Convergence
Audible Light - Submergence
Submergence
Audible Light - Luminescence
Luminescence
Audible Light - Radiance
Radiance
Bridge - Sun Ship
Sun Ship
with Continuum
with Avant Garden

Space Time

Yttrium

Best Kept Secret

Neptune
Avant Garden - Living In The Here & There
Living In The Here & There
with The Planet Scanners
Moses/Styring/Conway
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The Third Expedition

In Orbit
The Planet Scanners - Live and Scanning CD
Live and Scanning
Moses Styring Conway Unnatural Prospect
Unnatural Prospect
 



Chris Conway Jazz History
Chris Conway
Chris Conway taught himself the piano as a child. Early influences were Tom Coster, Chick Corea, then Steve Kuhn & Richie Beirach before getting into avant garde realms in his college days, inspired by Howard Riley and Kieth Tippett.

He then formed bands - a trio Solaris, then another trio Happy Landings which later became a quartet, which was inspired by the ECM label artists like Arild Andersen's groups, Bobo Stenson, Rainer Bruninghaus etc. A collection from these years was gathered together and released on his Breathtaking CD. His Happy Landings trio albums have been remastered and relased on CD and download.

All through this time he was blending his jazz in east-west fusion groups The Rain Garden and Jazz Orient/Re-Orient and others. These slowly became the main outlet for his jazz music as his focus turned to songwriting. With Jazz Orient/Re-Orient he played twice at the Southbank and played with many of the best jazz and world music musicians

Perhaps due to his increasing piano bar sets, he returned to jazz, though often as a jazz singer and songwriter inspired by the interest in his jazz songwriting shown by Brazilian singer Ithamara Koorax. He released a live set of songs Minute of the Hour.

He has also kept up an interest in improvised music which can feature jazz elements in an electronic setting, often featuring his theremin.

In 2008 he released Chocolate Bossa - an album of jazz bossas featuring Brazilians Ithamara Koorax and Thiago DeMello as guests. In 2010 he released Glisten - an album of solo piano improvisations. In 2012 he released a reunion album with Re-Orient - "Undiscovered Time"
. In 2012 he released an album of atmospheric jazz Retracing My Steps. In 2014 he released an album of improvised pieces with 15 female vocalists Through Mirrors We Met which was the culmination of a year's work.
2015 sees him release an album with jazz singer Jodi Krangle and an album of solo piano improvisations, Midnight Window Blue.
In 2016 Chris released Outside In an album of a single 50 minute piano improvisation with sounds from outside the studio. 3 more piano improvisations albums followed