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Taylor Eigsti

GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and composer Taylor Eigsti started playing the piano when he was four years old. Growing up in Menlo Park, CA, Eigsti was quickly labeled a prodigy, and has since released 8 albums as a bandleader, in addition to appearing on over 60 albums as a sideman. Eigsti recently won a 2022 GRAMMY® Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for his most recent album “Tree Falls”, released in 2021 on GSI Records. In addition to this recent honor, Eigsti has garnered 3 individual GRAMMY® nominations over the years for his work as a recording artist and composer, including Best Instrumental Composition, and Best Jazz Instrumental Solo. Eigsti has also been featured on several other GRAMMY® nominated albums by Gretchen Parlato and Julian Lage, and co-wrote a featured composition with Don Cheadle for the GRAMMY® - winning soundtrack to the motion picture “Miles Ahead” (2017).

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Article: Live Review

Dominick Farinacci & Friends / Taylor Eigisti & Christian Tamburr Celebrate Chick Corea and Gary Burton at Tri-C JazzFest 2025

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Dominick Farinacci and Friends Taylor Eigsti and Christian Tamburr Celebrate Chick Corea and Gary BurtonMimi Ohio Theatre Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, OH June 28, 2025 Afternoon presentations at multi-day jazz festivals tend to be low key--and often low-pressure--events. So it was on the final afternoon of the two-day Tri-C JazzFest. ...

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46th Annual Tri-C JazzFest

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46th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Playhouse Square Cleveland, OH June 26-28, 2025 Jazz festivals occupy a precarious space these days. Pressured by financial constraints, too many have drifted toward booking artists with only a passing connection to the jazz tradition. Cuts to both public and private funding have only compounded ...

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Article: Play This!

Sasha Berliner: Khan Younis

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Fantôme (Outside In Music, 2025) is vibraphonist Sasha Berliner's third release as a leader, and it is excellent from start to finish, due to its diversity of moods, energy, instrumentation, arrangements and well-written compositions. This is an ensemble effort, with everyone contributing to bringing Berliner's ideas to life. The core band consists of Taylor Eigsti (piano), ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Yazz Ahmed, Jeong Lim Yang, and Neil Ardley

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This episode features recent releases by Yazz Ahmed, Jeong Lim Yang, and Judy Wexler alongside older music from Neil Ardley, Art Tatum, and Bruno Raberg. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Art Tatum “I Cover ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Birthday Shoutouts To Foremothers Jutta Hipp, Blanche Calloway Plus Carole King & More

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This broadcast includes new releases from Nicole Zuraitis, Dave Potter and Monique Chao, with birthday shoutouts to foremothers Jutta Hipp (100!) Blanche Calloway (older sister of Cab Calloway) plus Carole King and Carmen Staaf. Happy listening and please support the station and the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue ...

Album

Plot Armor

Label: GroundUP Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Let You Bee; Bucket of F's (feat. Ben Wendel); Look Around You (feat. Becca Stevens); Plot Armor; Light Dream (feat. Terence Blanchard); Fire Within (feat. Lisa Fischer); The Rumor; Actually; Beyond The Blue (feat. Gretchen Parlato); 201918; Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered; Bad Sport Lobby.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser

Read "Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes Grammy nominations, new releases from the Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser plus a single from säje, with birthday shoutouts to Michelle Ann May and Jazz Master Sheila Jordan. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to ...

Article: Live Review

Mantova Jazz Festival 2024

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Teatro Ariston, Auditorium Monteverdi Mantova Jazz 2024 Mantova 11 ottobre--16 novembre 2024 Il Mantova Jazz Festival conferma la sua rilevanza tra le rassegne autunnali italiane continuando a selezionare proposte d'alto profilo nel panorama nazionale e internazionale. Il festival prende il nome da Roberto Chiozzini, storico fondatore negli anni cinquanta del ...

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Tracy Yang, Taylor Kelly, Quatuor Bozzini with junctQín keyboard collective and James McGowan

Read "Tracy Yang, Taylor Kelly, Quatuor Bozzini with junctQín keyboard collective and James McGowan" reviewed by Cheryl K.


During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, new music from composer and bandleader Tracy Yang, pianist/composer Satoko Fujii and trumpeter /composer Natsuki Tamura, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Kelly, Quatuor Bozzini with junctQín keyboard collective, the trio Tarbaby, and pianist James McGowan and his Ensemble. Playlist Duke Ellington “Wanderlust" from Duke Ellington ...


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