Peter Edwards Trio
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GB London – Jazz / Afro-Latin / World Jazz / soul/jazz
Peter Edwards Trio

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Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder A Matter of Instinct Album 2016
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Safe and Sound Album 2014
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Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Peter Edwards Trio EP 2010
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Peter Edwards is a pianist, composer and bandleader whose ‘soulful music…[is] full of emphatic chording, Latin grooves and romantic, cinematic themes’ (Guardian).

He is the 2015 Parliamentary Jazz Awards ‘Newcomer of the year’ and was among the nominees for the 2015 Jazz FM 'Breakthough Artist' award. His debut album 'Safe and Sound' was in MOJO's top 10 jazz albums of 2014.

In 2010, Peter formed his piano trio and released a Jazzlotion E.P. The following year Help Musicians presented him with a Development Award to help support the band’s progress. In 2013,
Peter returned to the studio to record his debut trio album ‘Safe and Sound’. The album has received glowing reviews – 4* in MOJO, 4* in 'The Evening Standard' and 3* in 'The Guardian'.

Selection for Edition IX of Serious' Take Five talent development programme provided him with the skills to make the most of the early success of his debut album. In July 2015 the group was selected play at the Montreal Jazz Festival for a ‘BBC Introducing’ showcase in association with the PRS Foundation. The performance was recorded and later broadcast on BBC Radio's ‘Jazz on 3’ and Jamie Cullum's Radio 2 programme.

Peter is currently working on a his second trio album 'A Matter of Instinct' due to be released in Spring 2016.