Bill Laurance (born 2 April 1981) is an
English
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composer,
producer, and multi-instrumental
musician
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. Laurance is a member of
jazz fusion
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and
funk band
Snarky Puppy
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, as well as founder and CEO of
London
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-based record label Flint Music.
Biography
Bill Laurance was born on 2 April 1981 and raised in
North London
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,
England
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. As a child he attended William Tyndale
primary school
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, during which he began learning piano and playing with his
school band
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. At age 9 Laurance performed on
organ during a school trip to London's renowned live-music venue
Union Chapel, a locale he would later again perform at as an adult during the recording of his fourth studio album ''Live at Union Chapel''. Having been trained on
ragtime
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and
swing
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, Laurance first began playing jazz at the age of 14 when he became the
resident performer for a small restaurant in the
Soho
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district on the
West End
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of London.
As an adult Laurance attended and graduated from the
University of Leeds
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, studying classical music, composition, and performance.
During his tenure at Leeds, Laurance met traveling University of North Texas
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jazz student Michael League
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, the two going on to perform a number of shows together in the UK.[ It was here that League and Laurance became close friends. League subsequently invited Laurance to join jazz ensemble ]Snarky Puppy
Snarky Puppy is an American instrumental band led by bassist Michael League. Founded in 2004, Snarky Puppy combines a variety of jazz idioms, rock, world music, and funk and has won four Grammy Awards. Although the band has worked with vocalis ...
before the recording of the group's first studio album. With Snarky Puppy's first album '' The Only Constant'' releasing in 2006, it wasn't until 2014 when Laurance would go on to release his first solo album ''Flint''.
Laurance is also an artist in residency at Morley College
Morley College is a specialist adult education and further education college in London, England. The college has three main campuses, one in Waterloo, London, Waterloo on the South Bank, and two in West London namely in North Kensington and in ...
and has taught master class
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es as a visiting lecturer
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with The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
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.
Film composition
Laurance was a 2018 participant of the Sundance Institute
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Film Music and Sound Design Lab, taking place at Skywalker Sound
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in California. His debut feature film score was for ''Un Traductor'' (2018), an independent
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drama
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by directing brothers Sebastián and Rodrigo Barriuso which was named as Cuba
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's official entry for the 92nd Academy Awards
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. Laurance also wrote several themes for ''Initials S.G.'' (2019),[ a film for which co-director and writer Rania Attieh won the 2019 ]Nora Ephron
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award at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
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. Laurance has also worked alongside Marcus Eaton as composer for the 2019 documentary '' David Crosby: Remember My Name''.[
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Collaborations
Laurance frequently collaborates with the guitarist, singer, and songwriter David Crosby
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Crosby joined the Byrds in 1964. They got ...
. He co-wrote and featured on piano in Crosby's track ''Your Own Ride'', lifted from the 2018 album, '' Here If You Listen''. Laurance is also featured on two tracks from Crosby's 2016 studio album, '' Lighthouse.'' Additionally, Laurance provided piano on the recording ''Somebody Home'', dual featured on both Crosby's 2017 album '' Sky Trails'', and Snarky Puppy's 2016 album ''Family Dinner – Volume 2
''Family Dinner – Volume 2'' is an album by American jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy that was released on February 12, 2016.
Track listing
All songs arranged by Michael League.
Bonus DVD and digital download tracks
Personnel
* Michael Leag ...
.'' In a 2018 interview, Crosby described Laurance as "one of the best piano players I've ever met in my life."
In November 2018, Laurance collaborated with the WDR WDR may refer to:
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Big Band of Cologne
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, performing concerts at Kölner Philharmonie
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and Southbank's Queen Elizabeth Hall
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in London. The concert in Cologne was recorded and resulted in a live album consisting of nine Laurance compositions, arranged by bandleader
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Bob Mintzer
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Early life
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.
As a member of Snarky Puppy, Laurance has collaborated with a number of artists and groups, including the Metropole Orkest
The Metropole Orkest (Metropole Orchestra) is a jazz and pop orchestra based in the Netherlands, and is the largest full-time ensemble of its kind in the world. A hybrid orchestra, it is a combination of jazz, big band and symphony orchestra. Com ...
, with whom the band won a GRAMMY award
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for the 2016 album, ''Sylva''. As part of their ''Family Dinner Vol.1'' and ''Family Dinner Vol. 2'' albums, Laurance collaborated with artists including Lalah Hathaway
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(whom he also accompanied at the GroundUP Music Festival in 2019), Salif Keita
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, Susana Baca Susana may refer to:
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, Laura Mvula
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and Jacob Collier
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.
Awards and honors
* 2014 - British newspaper The Guardian
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published an article praising studio album ''Flint'', titling Laurance a "jazz maestro".
* 2014 - Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance
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as a member of Snarky Puppy for title ''Something,'' featuring Lalah Hathaway
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'','' from the Snarky Puppy album ''Family Dinner Volume II''
* 2015 - UK digital radio station Jazz FM awarded Laurance as 'Breakthrough Act of the Year'.
* 2016 - Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
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as a member of Snarky Puppy for the album ''Sylva'' by Snarky Puppy and Metropole Orkest.
* 2017 - Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album as a member of Snarky Puppy for the album ''Culcha Vulcha'' by Snarky Puppy.[
*2017 - Online magazine UDiscoverMusic named Laurance's first live album ''Live at Union Chapel'' to their 2017 list of 'The 50 Greatest Live Jazz Albums', as well as Snarky Puppy's ''Sylva'' with Metropole Orkest.'
*2021 - Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album as a member of Snarky Puppy for the album ''Live At The Royal Albert Hall'' by Snarky Puppy.][
]
Personal Views
Brexit
In 2019, while touring in Berlin
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, Germany
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to promote his studio album ''Cables'', Laurance played a completely improvisation
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al piano piece channeling the emotions elicited by the UK electorate's decision to officially withdraw from the European Union
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(EU), commonly referred to as Brexit
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. Laurance described the decision to leave the EU and the ensuing political events as "total madness and chaos", stating "It's devastating, the prospect, that eas a British person wouldn't be part of Europe." In a related interview with Sam Howson of UK film group Mascot Video, Laurance stated "Everything is about to become more segregated and divided. I believe now, more than ever, we need to celebrate what we have in common over what we don't."
In a 2019 interview with Band on the Wall
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, Laurance shared "I think now more than ever that it’s important to be active about this stuff. There are things I’ve shied away from in the past, but now I feel like it’s part of the responsibility of a musician to raise these things and be more active. It’s passivity that has led us to Brexit, Trump… so we have to be more engaged".
Technology and science
In 2019, Laurance released his fifth solo record ''Cables'' which was influenced heavily by technology
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, science fiction
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, and science fact. In an interview with David Vincent of BrumNotes magazine, Laurance stated, "I’m fascinated by technology and the speed at which it’s growing and I think that it has to be harnessed in some way. If you’re dealing in any creative world I think technology, and using technology, is an important part, and has to be an important part, of what we do." Examples of Laurance's passion for science and technology can be found throughout ''Cables'', as many of the songs are inspired, named after, and composed in honour of these subjects.
Track two of ''Cables'', entitled ''HAL,'' is named after the fictional artificially intelligent (AI) computer HAL 9000
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, a character in Stanley Kubrick's
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'''2001: A Space Odyssey. Track four of ''Cables'', entitled ''Ebb Tide'', was inspired by climate change
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and the fragility of the Earth's now rising sea level
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. While performing ''Ebb Tide'' at Kölner Philharmonie
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in Cologne
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, Germany
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, Laurance stated "Climate change is real."[ The final and eighth track of ''Cables'', entitled ''Cassini'', is named after the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, whose mission was to study ]Saturn
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. The cadence
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of the song follows the spacecraft's final mission
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, commonly referred to as the "Grand Finale", in which the satellite was deliberately sacrificed in order to maximum scientific output while also preventing biological contamination of Saturn's local moons.
Climate change
Laurance has been vocal about his acceptance of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change
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. Laurance is amongst the musicians and music organisations who have signed the Music Declares Emergency
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declaration, which calls for 'an immediate governmental response to protect all life on Earth.' During a 2019 concert at La Petite Halle, Paris
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, Laurance stated "Climate change is real ..we have to be more active about it."
Discography
As group member or sideman:
with Eddie Roberts
* ''Roughneck (Live In Paris)'' (One Note Records, 2006)
* The Eddie Roberts Quintet ''Trenta'' (One Note Records, 2007)
* Eddie Roberts & Freckles ''Move'' (One Note Records, 2010)
with Snarky Puppy
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* '' The Only Constant'' (Sitmom, 2006)
* '' Bring Us the Bright'' (Sitmom, 2008)
* '' Tell Your Friends'' (Ropeadope
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, 2010)
* '' groundUP'' (GroundUP, 2012)
* '' Amkeni'' with Bukuru Celestin (Ropeadope, 2013)
* '' Family Dinner – Volume 1'' (Ropeadope, 2013)
* ''We Like It Here
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'' (Ropeadope, 2014)
* '' Sylva'' with Metropole Orkest
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(Impulse!
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, 2015)
* ''Family Dinner – Volume 2
''Family Dinner – Volume 2'' is an album by American jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy that was released on February 12, 2016.
Track listing
All songs arranged by Michael League.
Bonus DVD and digital download tracks
Personnel
* Michael Leag ...
'' (GroundUP, Universal Music Classics, 2016)
* '' Culcha Vulcha'' (GroundUP, 2016)
* '' Immigrance'' (GroundUP, 2019)
* '' Live at the Royal Albert Hall'' (GroundUP, 2020)
with Gabby Young & Other Animals
* ''One Foot in Front of the Other'' ( Fontana North/Musebox. 2014)
with David Crosby
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Crosby joined the Byrds in 1964. They got ...
* '' Lighthouse'' ( Decca / Groundup Music, 2016)
* '' Sky Trails'' ( BMG, 2017)
* '' Here If You Listen'' (BMG, 2018)
with Ana Silvera
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Silvera's solo music can be characterized as folk in style, but draws on diverse genres including jazz, pop and contemporary classical. As a composer, she has been ...
* ''Oracles'' (Gearbox Records, 2016)
with The Sachal Ensemble
* ''Song of Lahore'' (Universal, 2016)
featured on:
* ''Mad Mats: Digging Beyond the Crates'' (BBE
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* Baldwin Beach Express, a highway in Alabama
* Bangba language ...
, 2017)
* ''Modern Jazz Dance Classics, Vol. 1'' (Staubgold, 2019)
References
External links
Official Website
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1981 births
Living people
British male jazz musicians
21st-century British male musicians
21st-century jazz composers
English jazz pianists
English jazz composers
Snarky Puppy members
GroundUPmusic artists
Grammy Award winners