Neil Cowley Trio return with new album Entity and London live date

Pianist Neil Cowley has confirmed the return of his much-loved and widely acclaimed Trio – with bassist Rex Horan and drummer Evan Jenkins – after a seven year hiatus in which he worked as a solo artist exploring a highly personal electro-acoustic soundworld. Releasing their first single ‘Adam Alphabet’ on 5 June – taken from their new album Entity that’s released on 20 September – the band are also confirmed for a headline who at EartH, Hackney on 19 November as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival.

Entity sees the trio pick up where they left off, with some of the band’s earlier kinetic jazz-rock riffing replaced with a more emotive set of songs, notably derived from a purely acoustic set-up – with Cowley’s numerous electronic gizmos and effects consigned to his lock-up.

Commenting on the album Cowley said: “In contrast to the machines we are slave to, we’re presenting something that is unmistakably human; communal, supportive, flexible, reactive, instantaneous and flawed; and perhaps, when we are at our most elevated and selfless, what you might call an entity!”

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