Alex Maguire

Alex Maguire is a British born jazz and jazz-rock-fusion pianist, keyboardist and composer.
Maguire is British pianist and keyboard player.
He has studied with John Cage and Howard Riley, and has performed extensively around the globe. He has worked with Michael Moore, Elton Dean in several projects (including Newsense, Headless, EDQ etc), Pip Pyle's Bash, and was keyboardist of the reformed "Canterbury scene" band Hatfield and the North (2004-2006, with Phil Miller, Richard Sinclair and Pip Pyle).
With Phil Miller, Fred Baker and Mark Fletcher, he is also a founding member of InCaHat, a band performing the music of In Cahoots, Hatfield and the North and National Health. Moonjune Records released Brewed in Belgium, the debut album of the Alex Maguire Sextet, in 2008. In addition to other ongoing projects, Maguire is currently rehearsing with a power trio featuring Michel Delville and which will see the light in late 2009.
In January 2009, Alex Maguire was voted 3rd best keyboard player of the year 2008 (behind Hans-Peter Pfammatter and Chick Corea) in Arnaldo de Souteiro's 30th Annual Jazz Station Poll in the magazine Tribuna (Rio de Janeiro).
Press quotes
"Alex Maguire's piano work shows no overt allegiance to anyone and it's always a joy to hear a musician whose work is so self-contained." -All About Jazz
"Featuring mega-talented pianist Alex Maguire, this supremely talented European quintet generates some high-heat throughout this rather extroverted progressive-jazz date." -Jazz Review (on the CD Wishful Thinking, Cleanfeed Records 2007)
"Maguire is commanding and creative, whether asked to generate Cecil Tayloresque mayhem, subtle chord sequences or long, flowing legato lines" -Jay Collins, Cadence Magazine
"Any thoughts of Stewart’s absence were quickly dispensed with by Maguire, who managed to capture the essence of Stewart’s sound and harmonic conception without losing sight of his own not-insignificant voice. Clearly deep into the music, Maguire—whose own group, Psychic Warrior, released its fine eponymously titled debut disc a couple of years back—contributed some of the most exciting solos of Hatfield’s nearly two-hour set. Whether on Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ or synthesizer, his virtuosity and open ears made him the perfect replacement for Stewart, and one can only hope that a document of this new incarnation will be released at some point." - John Kelman, All About Jazz (review of the Hatfield and the North concert in Montreal, 2006)

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