French jazz guitarist

Welsh composers
Best-selling solo piano album
Wombles guitarist

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Biog

Ian Shaw is one of the most recognisable names on the UK jazz scene, performing in the UK and worldwide both solo and in collaboration with an array of first-class musicians and ensembles. His career of over thirty-five years encompasses not only music but also broadcasting, comedy and acting. “The leading male jazz singer of his generation in the UK” (Jazzwise, March 2008), Ian delivers “shades of Mark Murphy and Jon Hendricks, artists in whose company Shaw very much belongs.” (All About Jazz, February 2025)

Ian is the recipient of two BBC Jazz Awards and a Parliamentary Jazz Award.

Early Life

Ian was born in St. Asaph, Wales, into a musical family. He joined local youth bands and took part in youth theatre, and in his teens he regularly played keyboard at local pubs. At eighteen, he moved to London where he took a music degree at King’s College, London.

In his early 20s, Ian worked as a piano player in bars in London and across Europe and North America with a repertoire of contemporary pop. He developed a love of jazz, regularly visiting

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Ian Bargh

IAN MARTIN BARGH (pianist) was born on January 8, 1935 in Prestwick, Scotland and passed away January 1, 2012. By the age of 17, he was playing classical piano and working with jazz groups and dance bands all over the Midlands, England and Scotland until 1957.

It was then he emigrated to Toronto where he was a vital part of the jazz genre.

He quickly became a familiar figure on stage and playing in jazz clubs all over the city, frequently at the famous George’s Spaghetti House. He began backing jazz greats who visited Toronto throughout the ’60s and ‘70s: Buddy Tate, Buck Clayton, Bobby Hackett, Vic Dickenson, Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson, Ernestine Anderson, Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, Edmund Hall, Doc Cheatham, Tyree Glenn, and others.

In the early ‘80s, Bargh began an eight-year run as the resident pianist for Jim Galloway’s Saturday afternoon “Toronto Alive!” sessions at Toronto’s Sheraton Centre, a gig which was broadcast live on radio, and showcased a non-stop parade of jazz greats who were usually

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Ian Carr

Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator

For the guitarist, see Ian Carr (guitarist).

Ian Carr
Birth name	Ian Henry Randall Carr
Born	(1933-04-21)21 April 1933 Dumfries, Scotland
Died	25 February 2009(2009-02-25) (aged 75)
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, writer, educator
Instrument	Trumpet
Labels	Vertigo

Musical artist

Ian Carr (21 April 1933^[1] – 25 February 2009)^[2] was a Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator. Carr performed and recorded with the Rendell-Carr quintet and jazz-fusion band Nucleus, and was an associate professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He also wrote biographies of musicians Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis.

Early years