Neil Cowley Trio – Analogue Rhapsody
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Pianist Neil Cowley's instinct for a punchy pop-hook has never been in doubt – in fact his pounding piano on Adele’s 21 album made him the most listened to jazz pianist on the planet in 2011.
Yet having patented his own eccentrically English take on EST’s power piano trio, reaping both critical and commercial rewards in the process, Cowley and his Trio felt the need to look afresh at their music. Speaking frankly to Selwyn Harris about their change of direction on their fifth and latest album, Touch and Flee, the pianist reveals that digging into the band’s emotional side and rediscovering jazz on vinyl has brought out a warmly elegiac side to their sound
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