Jazz Articles about Taylor Eigsti

Taylor Eigsti and the Prodigy Thing

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
October 22, 2004

Why do some players have it, and others don't?

Let's assume for the moment that it needs no definition--that we all recognize it when we hear it. We'll also set aside the tendency of the music business to elevate the less-talented and more photogenic, and the sad fact that not everyone who “makes it" actually has it. The question here is more basic: what creates a truly outstanding musician--that is, the one who has it ? Is it ...

Taylor Eigsti: Prodigy Taking Jazz World by Storm

by Katie Alvarez
March 11, 2004

Listening to the opening moments of Resonance, the Bop City debut of piano whirlwind Taylor Eigsti, is scary enough--those incendiary octaves that ignite “Got a Match" into a post-bop firestorm.

Imagine, though, what it was like to experience this intensity first-hand when this surreally gifted player, all of ten or eleven years old, blew me off the bandstand.

I remember Eigsti as an amiable kid, dark-haired and smiling, as a friend introduced us and asked if ...

Taylor Eigsti: Resonance

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
September 25, 2003

People who claim “jazz is dead," or that its only true practitioners are dying off, can be very tiresome. This CD also proves them, well, dead wrong. Taylor Eigsti (IKES-dee), just 19 years old, is eager to carry the torch into the next century and what's more, he's doing it. He opened for David Benoit at age 8, played with Dave Brubeck at 13, and joined the teaching staff of the Stanford Jazz Workshop at 15. Eigsti has already opened ...