Taylor Eigsti - Plot Armor [CD]

GroundUP Music LLC

£19.78

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: GUM0324TECD
Barcode: 198391133671
Release Date: 10 May 2024
Genre: Contemporary Jazz

GRAMMY-award winning pianist and composer, Taylor Eigsti, started playing the piano when he was four years old. He has since released 8 albums as a bandleader, in addition to appearing on over 70 albums as a sideman. Eigsti recently won a 2022 GRAMMY® Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for his most recent album “Tree Falls”, released in 2021. Eigsti has performed, toured, or recorded with such luminaries as Dave Brubeck, Esperanza Spalding, John Mayer, Chris Potter, Chick Corea, Snarky Puppy, Julian Lage, among others, and is a regular touring member of Terence Blanchard’s E-Collective and a duo collaboration with vocalist Lisa Fischer. The follow-up LP to his GRAMMY-winning, ‘Tree Falls,’ the pianist-composer-bandleader's ninth album and GroundUP Music label debut boasts twin masters in each instrumental slot—featured guest (vocalist Lisa Fischer, trumpeter Terence Blanchard); vocals (Gretchen Parlato, Becca Stevens); saxophone (Ben Wendel, Dayna Stephens); guitar (Charles Altura, Julian Lage); keyboards/piano (Maya Kronfeld, the man himself); bass (David "DJ" Ginyard, Harish Raghavan); drums (Oscar Seaton, Jr., Kendrick Scott), plus many appearances by a layered string section (Stephanie Yu, Corinne Sobolewski, Mia Barcia-Colombo, Jules Levy). The album is supported by a 21-stop US tour spanning February through May 2024. He has roughly 55,000 monthly listeners and 10,000 followers on Spotify.

Tracklisting
1. Let You Bee
2. Bucket of F’s (feat. Ben Wendel)
3. Look Around You (feat. Becca Stevens)
4. Plot Armor
5. Light Dream (feat. Terence Blanchard)
6. Fire Within (feat. Lisa Fischer)
7. The Rumor
8. Actually
9. Beyond The Blue (feat. Gretchen Parlato)
10. 201918
11. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (feat. Dayna Stephens and Charles Altura)
12. Bad Sport Lobby