Since graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2008 Rick Simpson has performed with musicians such as Christian Scott, Eric Harland, Joe Sanders, Michael Janisch, Ernesto Simpson, Martin Speake, Earl Burness Travis, Stan Sulzmann, Jeff Williams and Brandon Allen as well as younger musicians in London. Rick plays in the ensembles of Jay Phelps, Tim Thornton, Tommy Andrews, Leo Richardson, Paul Riley, and US jazz singer Hailey Tuck amongst others. As a composer he writes “exceptional original music with a variety of influences inside and out of the jazz world, and ruminating on themes as diverse as identity theft, scary forests and sexual volcanoes” Rick is based in London, playing a wide variety of music, and leads his own group playing original jazz music.