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 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.

He is a true multi-instrumentalist playing flutes and Irish whistles, keyboards, guitars, kalimbas, theremin and zithers.

In world fusion music he has worked with tabla player Talvin Singh, violin virtuoso Dr L Subramanium, sarangi maestro Ramesh Mishra and tabla masters Sarwar Sabri, Partha Murathi Mukherje, and Ustad Faiyaz Khan.

He's released 5 CDs with Jazz Orient (a.k.a. Re-Orient) with sitar maestro Baluji Shrivastav featuring many of his own compositions. 2 of his pieces are alongside tracks by Trilok Gurtu, Hariprasad Chaurasia and Larry Coryell, on the world music CD compilation Crossing Borders.

He has released 6 albums with world music fusion group The Rain Garden with sitar player Carl Peberdy and has featured in it's ranks percussionist Sudha Kheterpal.

His music has been heard on BBC TV and on TV and radio stations all over the world.

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 singer-songwriting.

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.

Chris Conway's world music fusions usually centre around Indian Music or Celtic Music.

Indian music interest began after studying sitar for a year with Dharambir Singh. Meeting sitar playerCarl Peberdy led to the formation of The Rain Garden. UK tours followed, and a host of cassette albums and 1 CD were made in their 15 year association. 4 remastered albums have been released for CD and download..

He was then noticed by, and later toured with, Pushkala Gopal & Unnikrishnan Indian classical dance troupe. This in turn led to his joining Jazz Orient (also known as Re-Orient for their ARC Music CDs), recording 5CDs.
He has also played with Dr L Subramanium, Talvin Singh, Ramesh Mishra, Sarwar Sabri, Kumar Saswat during this time and toured with with kathak dancer Nilima Devi's dance projects.
In 2003 he released Ayurveda blending Indian influences with relaxation and atmospheric music.
In 2009 The Rain Garden released India - their first album in 10 years
In 2011 Re-Orient recorded a new album for ARC Music called Undiscovered Time to be released by the end of the year.

Celtic music - check out the Celtic Music Page