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Welcome
Welcome to the website of pianist and composer Alexander Hawkins.
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Biography
Alexander Hawkins is a composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader who is ‘unlike anything else in modern creative music’.
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Regarded as one of his generation's most innovative, his own unique soundworld is shaped by a profound fascination with composition and structure, alongside a love of chance and open forms.
His writing has been said to represent ‘a fundamental reassertion of composition within improvised music’, and his voice one of the ‘most vividly distinctive...in modern jazz’.
As a pianist, he has been described as ‘remarkable...possessing staggering technical ability and a fecund imagination.’
Concerning his organ playing, critic Brian Morton recently commented that ‘[t]he most interesting Hammond player of the last decade and more,