Rick Simpson

Rick Simpson is based in London playing a wide variety of music, and leads his own group playing original jazz music. Rick is a regular performer at the 606 Jazz Club, Pizza Express Dean Street, The Vortex, The Bull's Head, Charlie Wright's, and larger venues such as the Royal Festival Hall and the Purcell Room.

In 2008 Rick won a Yamaha Scholarship Prize for Outstanding Jazz Musicians. A recording of Rick's band was put on the front cover of Jazzwise Magazine.

Since graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he has performed with musicians such as John Patitucci, Rufus Reid, Martin Speake, Stan Sulzmann, Jeff Williams and Alan Barnes as well as younger musicians in London such as Paul Booth, Phil Donkin, James Maddren, Zhenya Strigalev and Mark Hanslip. He has also performed at Ronnie Scott's with actor Kevin Spacey.