British pianist Bill Laurance, a five-time Grammy Award winner, has built a career that uniquely blends musical genres that would seem to be completely at odds with one another.
Originally trained as a classical pianist, Laurance has for many years demonstrated his unique creativity and improvisational skills as the founder of the band Snarky Puppy.

Those familiar with the Helsinki jazz scene at the turn of the millennium may remember first hearing Timo Lassy with U-Street All Stars on the Blue Note label, or perhaps with The Five Corners Quintet, a jazz project led by the Nuspirit Helsinki collective, that morphed into a live band setting stages on fire the world over.