Search - Taylor Eigsti :: Resonance

Five stars is 995 too few!

T. A. Lorenzin | Mooresville, NC United States | 05/14/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I was collared by my radio almost a year ago as Bonnie Grice spun Juliette on our local jazz station, and it was my favorite on first run-through of the album when I got it. Now, they're ALL my favorites. Eigsti's earlier album Taylor's Dream is only suggestive of this genius's mastery. Resonance deserves your fully focused attention on every track and many, many hearings. He's like a Beethoven symphony - something new to be heard in each subsequent pass. This is a man who has lived a lot of life in his scant twenty years, and it all comes out at his fingertips. AMAZING! You should have heard him with Marian McPartland - the ~seventy years difference in their ages evaporated in a flash of brilliance, beauty, and just plain fun.



WOW! AHHHHhhhhhhh!"

Mature, inventive, phenomenal technique

veil_26 | new york, ny | 09/06/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I heard Eigsti for the first time yesterday at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. My dad and I had gone to hear Marian McPartland (still a very cool musician at 86) tape her "Piano Jazz" show for NPR. We're big jazz piano fans--McCoy Tyner, Bennie Green, and lots of greats no longer with us (Bill Evans, Art Tatum)--and we adore Marian and would have gone no matter who her guest was. Eigsti blew us away. Listening to him, you would have no idea he's 19--he sounds like he's done at least twice that much living. His chops are overwhelming, but they serve his musicality and aren't the reason to listen to him. I picked up "Resonance" and have listened to it a dozen times in the last 24 hours. He did a solo version of Ivan Lins's "Love Dance" at Tanglewood, and a trio version is on this CD (good, but not as great as his solo). His own tunes are good; of the classics, "Angel Eyes" is perhaps the most innovative treatment I've heard of this already complex tune, and Corea's "Got a Match" and Sonny Rollins's "Oleo" are absolute barnburners, and on Bernstein's "Somewhere" and Mercer Ellington's "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" you'll think you're listening to someone who's played in clubs and recorded for twenty years. Astounding. Live at Tanglewood, he did "Give Me Fever" (or whatever the name of that Peggy Lee song is) and just tore up the piano. I hope that one shows up on another CD soon."

"Wow" sums it up

Maxwell O'Connor | Chicago, IL USA | 04/07/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This young man sizzles on the ivories along with Shifflet (Bass) and Lewis (Drums). Every song on "Resonance" takes you into a different space and the vibe is pure improvisation. I think Eigsti will introduce Jazz to a new generation. Here's a musician on the verge of breaking new sound barriers and I anticipate his next release to be even edgier. Very cool, I'm hooked."