Alexander Hawkins

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alexander Hawkins
Occupation	Pianist
Date Of Birth	May 3, 1981(1981-05-03)
Age	43
Birthplace	Oxford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Alexander Hawkins Biography

Alexander Hawkins is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on May 3, 1981 in Oxford, England, United Kingdom.

Hawkins was born in Oxford on 3 May 1981. His father played piano and clarinet and introduced Hawkins to jazz through early Duke Ellington recordings. Hawkins at first played classical music, principally on organ. He was educated at Radley College. He decided to concentrate on piano practice when he was 18. He started playing jazz in his mid-teens and played gigs in pubs with friends.

Alexander Hawkins (born 3 May 1981) is a British jazz pianist and composer. Three of the main groups he has led or co-led are the Alexander Hawkins Ensemble; the Convergence Quartet (with Taylor Ho Bynum, Harris Eisenstadt and Dominic Lash); and the Hammond organ-based Decoy (with John Edwards and Steve Noble).

Alexander Hawkins Net Worth

Alexander Hawkins is one of the richest Pianist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alexander Hawkins 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hawkins uses compositions by musicians who became prominent in avant garde jazz in the 1970s, including Arthur Blythe, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Oliver Lake, and Wadada Leo Smith: “what interests me about that period is that those are some masters who are showing interesting ways with structure. One way to create an interesting language: there’s the micro level of the notes you play and in what order but also the macro-level language of what structure you’re using, how you’re deploying people [in an ensemble]”. Hawkins also uses his own compositions in his various bands.

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Financial Times jazz reviewer Mike Hobart described Hawkins’ improvising in 2010 as being “rooted in the early days of free jazz, when collective freedom was built on urgent rhythms, clear direction and a sense of history. He plays to the pulse and builds up a ferocious momentum. […] Opening melodies provide structure, especially when modulated to different keys, and there are spiky riffs, swooping arpeggios and a bundle of jazzy references.”

Facts & Trivia

Steve Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Alexander Hawkins celebrates birthday on May 3 of every year.

In 2012, Hawkins recorded his first solo piano album, Song Singular. It was described by The Guardian’s John Fordham as “state-of-the-art contemporary piano jazz”. It was released in 2014, at the same time as Step Wide, Step Deep by the Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, containing Otto Fischer on electric guitar, Shabaka Hutchings on reeds, violinist Dylan Bates, bassist Neil Charles and Tom Skinner on drums and percussion.