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Artist...: Taylor Eigsti
Album....: Lucky To Be Me
Genre....: Jazz
Label....: Concord Records
Lang.....: English
Year.....: 2006
Source...: CDDA
Rip.date.: 08-26-2017
St.date..: 03-28-2006
Encoder..: FLAC 1.3.1
Quality..: 751 kbps Avg 44.1kHz 2 channels
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01 Giant Steps 5:15
02 Get Your Hopes Up 5:11
03 Love For Sale 3:14
04 I've Seen It All 5:32
05 Argument 4:33
06 True Colors 4:32
07 Woke Up This Morning 5:38
08 Promenade 5:36
09 Adventure One 6:56
10 Darn That Dream 4:54
11 Freedom Jazz Dance 4:55
12 Lucky To Be Me 3:09
Total Size.: 12 Files/341.4MB/59:25 min
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What can you say about a 21-year-old jazz pianist who begins
with John Coltrane's "Giant Steps," turns the harmony inside
out, twists the mode, and presents its mirror image and reflects
the composer's lyricism and fire in fiery post-bop language, and
still maintain the integrity of the tune? Only that it's Taylor
Eigsti. Lucky to Be Me is Eigsti's third album, and his first
for Concord. It reeks of self-confidence and a bad boy's sense
of mischief, and with good reason: Eigsti's got the chops, both
technically and inspirationally, to pull this -- and much more
-- off. The instrumentation on this set is varied. Musicians
include bassist Christian McBride, drummer Lewis Nash (the
rhythm section on the aforementioned and the gorgeous read of
Cole Porter's "Love for Sale" just to name two), saxophonist
Eric Marienthal, drummer Billy Kilson, bassist James Genus,
guitarist Julian Lage, trumpeter Greg Adams, and more. The
shifting instrumentation and arrangements are characterized by
the tunes. McBride and Nash also appear on a jazz read of
Mussorgsky's "Promenade" and Alabama 3's "Woke Up This Morning,"
the theme from The Sopranos. That's not the half of it, though:
there are startling versions of Eddie Harris' "Freedom Jazz
Dance," "Darn That Dream," and Bj÷rk's "I've Seen It All."
Eigsti brings freshness, sophistication, and a deep sense of
maturity to these tunes. He reinvents them without ever tearing
them apart; in other words, his sense of "song" is profound and
foremost. The Harris tune is introduced by the a series of
contrapuntal moves by Eigsti and then flipped over into some
kind of bop/modal thing -- all the while keeping the rhythm
intact and forceful. But it is, perhaps, on his own
compositions, like the lovely "Get Your Hopes Up," where he
shines most. Eigsti is not an academic player, though he is a
flashy one. His sense of harmony and melody is not far removed
from the euphoric dynamics of Pat Metheny's, and here, as in
everything he writes on Lucky to Be Me, the sense of time is
fluid -- floating and yet anchored by his left hand. Eigsti
engages Lage on the head and then slips around him, playing
behind the beat first, double-timing it next, and finally coming
right through the middle of it to allow the lyric to reestablish
itself as the prominent voice in the tune. His large,
open-ringing chords are the signatures he imposes on his
harmonics and his changeups. This is a solid date throughout.
Though the track listing may read like it's schizophrenic and
manic, the disc is anything but. It flows from top to bottom,
and the listener will no doubt be moved and awed by some of
Eigsti's pyrotechnics -- though they always have soul -- and on
the tunes that feature Lage, listeners will be awed, too, by his
command of the jazz guitar language. Lucky to Be Me is a mature,
fiery, and surprising set by a talent who is still getting
started while arriving fully formed as an artist.
Url: http://www.tayjazz.com/
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