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Neil Cowley Trio: Radio Silence
by AAJ Italy Staff
Bambino prodigio in ambito classico, poi tastierista dei Brand New Heavies e ora tra i più apprezzati esponenti del jazz inglese, il pianista Neil Cowley si inserisce a pieno titolo tra quegli artisti che lavorano con un lessico flessibile e pieno di groove alla formula del piano trio. Il suo, di trio, giunge con questo Radio Silence alla sua terza prova discografica [il disco d'esordio, Displaced è stato riconosciuto nel 2007 miglior disco dell'anno dalla BBC] e conferma la presenza ...
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by Bruce Lindsay
Since it formed in 2005 the Neil Cowley Trio has developed its distinctive sound across two well-received albums. Displaced (Hide Inside Records, 2006) won the 2007 BBC Jazz Award for Best Album, while the follow-up, Loud, Louder, Stop (Cake, 2008), gained additional plaudits. Radio Silence is album number three and it finds the Trio at the peak of its power, staking a real claim to being one of the most impressive piano trios in contemporary jazz. The ...
Continue ReadingNeil Cowley: A Rock and Roll Take on Jazz
by Bruce Lindsay
It's not an observation based on hard evidence, but the jazz world seems to be more awash with piano trios than it has been for many years. Whether it's a whim of fashion, a response to economic recession, a reaction to the over-digitization of music technology, or something else entirely, is far from clear. But there do seem to be a lot of them about, and many of them are extremely good.
So how does ...
Continue ReadingThe Neil Cowley Trio: Loud Louder Stop
by Ian Patterson
To win the BBC Jazz Album of the Year poll is a laudable achievement, but might it be a double-edged sword? The Neil Cowley Trio won the prestigious British award for Displaced (Hide Inside Records, 2007) and joined trumpeter Colin Steele and saxophonists Gilad Atzmon and Tony Kofi as recent winners whose careers have received a boost as a result.
The thing is, pianist Cowley's trio is art-pop without vocals, e.s.t. unplugged and minus the devilish improvisation, jazz ...
Continue ReadingNeil Cowley Trio at Norwich Arts Centre
by Robert Mitchell
Neil Cowley TrioNorwich Arts CentreNorwich, EnglandApril 11, 2008
Jazz pianist Horace Silver once released an album called Jazz Has a Sense of Humor. No one on the contemporary scene seems to embody that statement more than pianist Neil Cowley and his trio (Richard Sadler, bass; Evan Jenkin, drums). His piano style could be seen as the antithesis of the E.S.T. school, with Cowley proffering more of a rock-oriented approach but with moments of beauty nonetheless, ...
Continue ReadingNeal Cowley Trio: Displaced
by Budd Kopman
The short story of Neil Cowley is that he was a child prodigy performing Shostakovich at the age of ten, became enormously successful in the pop, soul and funk world, and then emerged from an electronics-induced existential crisis to lead a predominately acoustic, and very hot jazz trio. If one scored points for pure energy, then Cowley would win by a mile, but Displaced has much more going for it than that. However, comparisons do help relay ...
Continue ReadingThe Neil Cowley Trio: Displaced
by John Kelman
It's rare to hear a new group create a sound so unique from the get-go that antecedents are rendered irrelevant. British pianist Neil Cowley's trio is on the verge of something very significant with Diplaced. More forceful than EST but less clunky than The Bad Plus, the Neil Cowley Trio has plenty to appeal to fans of these more youthful and, for the moment, better-known alternatives to the mainstream piano trio.
A talented child prodigy who performed classical concertos at ...
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