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Taylor Eigsti: Let It Come To You
by Martin Gladu
It is always a joy, not to mention quite reassuring, for any serious acoustic jazz cognoscente to happen upon a young interpreter of the music that not only masters its tradition, but significantly develops his own voice and sound.Already a veteran at only 23, Taylor Eigsti strongly contests a high-ranking position amidst the ever ...
Concord Jazz Will Release Taylor Eigsti's "Let It Come to You" on May 6th
Concord Jazz Will Release Taylor Eigsti's Let It Come To You On May 6th New Release Finds Pianist Honoring His Jazz Roots While Forging New Path Into The Future On May 6, 2008, 23 year old pianist, composer and bandleader Taylor Eigsti will release Let It Come To You, his sixth overall ...
Lucky To Be Me
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2006
Track listing: Giant Steps; Get Your Hopes Up; Love for Sale; I've Seen it All; Argument; True Colors; Woke
Up This Morning; Promenade; Adventure One; Darn That Dream; Freedom Jazz Dance; Lucky
to be Me.
Taylor Eigsti: Lucky To Be Me
by Ken Franckling
Fire and crisp delicacy go hand in hand on Lucky To Be Me, Taylor Eigsti's major label debut. It is clear that he loves rhythm shifts within a song--and from song to song. His teasing rearrangements of “Giant Steps and “Love For Sale are edgy and delightful. He then turns pop singer Björk's dark ballad “I've ...
Taylor Eigsti: Lucky To Be Me
by Paul Ryan
To play with veteran jazzmen like Christian McBride and Lewis Nash at the tender age of 21, you have to have both talent and a good dose of confidence. Pianist Taylor Eigsti possesses both of these traits and then some, as his first album on Concord, Lucky To Be Me, indicates. McBride and Nash ...
Taylor Eigsti: Lucky to Be Me
by Ken Kase
It must indeed be a lucky thing to be Taylor Eigsti, a 21-year-old pianist who has already been performing for over a decade. After a handful of independent discs comes his Concord debut, Lucky to Be Me, a collection of originals, standards and unexpected interpretations featuring bassist Christian McBride, drummer Lewis Nash and guitarist Julian Lage.
Taylor Eigsti: Lucky to Be Me
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Lucky to Be Me is the fifth release by the talented pianist/composer Taylor Eigsti, and his first on the Concord label. Concord thought enough of Eigsti's label debut to bracket him with some of the best players in the business, including Christian McBride and Lewis Nash. And given the numerous photos of this handsome 21 year-old, ...
Taylor Eigsti and the Prodigy Thing
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
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" ...
Taylor Eigsti: Prodigy Taking Jazz World by Storm
by Katie Alvarez
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 ...
Resonance
Label: Bop City Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Got a Match?; Juliette; Oleo; Angel Eyes; Avolation; Somewhere; Love Dance; Uncle Smith; Cubano Chant; Things Ain't What they Used to Be; Introspection.
