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Tim Lapthorn Trio
Natural Language
Recorded: Jan 2004
Release Date: Sept 2004
Label: Basho Records (
www.bashorecords.co.uk)

Tim Lapthorn - piano
Tom Herbert - double bass
Pat Levett - drums

This very popular album contains 4 original compositions, some jazz standards, tunes by Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Bill Frisell and an Irish folk tune. Highly recommended.
"piano trio jazz played with love and respect. Should you buy it? Definitely!" - Jazz Views
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Tim Lapthorn Trio
Outlines
Recorded: June 2002
Release date: Sept 2002
Label: 1A Productions 

Tim Lapthorn - piano
Tom Herbert - bass
Pat Levett - drums

Only a few copies left! This contains 6 original compositions incluiding an extended one. Order now before this album goes out of print.
"some of the most intense, most exciting piano jazz this writer has heard in some time" - Jazzrag
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Ian Shaw

Drawn to all Things: The Songs of Joni Mitchell

Recorded: Nov 2005
Release date: April 2006
Label: Linn

Featuring: Tim Lapthorn, Nigel Hitchcock, Claire Martin, Lea Delaria, Guy Barker, Jim Mullen, Mark Fletcher, Simon Little and more....

Beautiful album tastefully reworking Joni Mitchell songs with a jazz twist. Very nicely produced by Richard Cottle.

Tim Lapthorn/Arnie Somogyi/Stephen Keogh
Seventh Sense
Recorded: Nov 2005
Release date: tbc
Label: Basho Records (www.bashorecords.co.uk)

Tim Lapthorn - piano
Arnie Somogyi - bass
Stephen Keogh - drums

Not yet released, this album features a top UK rhythm section and features original compsitions and standards with lots of storytelling through the improvisation. Very accessible yet extremely exciting music - swingy, bluesy, funky. Please email should you wish to purchase a preview copy (timlapthorn@yahoo.co.uk)

Ambulance

Worthless Originals

Recorded: Nov 2004
Released: 2005

Arnie Somogyi - bass
Dave Smith - drums
Paul Booth - saxophones
Tim Lapthorn - piano/percussion/Juno 106

Great little EP of this highly inventive group recorded on the back of a week's residency at Ronnie Scott's Club in London.