Resonance

Taylor Eigsti | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 12, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bop City Records
• ASIN: B0000A59TP
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #308,417 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Got a Match?

2. Juliette

3. Oleo

4. Angel Eyes

5. Avolation

6. Somewhere

7. Love Dance

8. Uncle Smith

9. Cubano Chant

10. Things Ain't What They Used to Be

11. Introspection [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five stars is 995 too few!, May 13, 2005

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T. A. Lorenzin "Tomm Lorenzin" (Mooresville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Resonance (Audio CD)

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!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mature, inventive, phenomenal technique, September 5, 2004

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veil_26 (new york, ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Resonance (Audio CD)

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prodigy proves he's not just a novelty, August 28, 2003

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A. Fischer "fischjazz" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Resonance (Audio CD)

What an awesome musician! With chops that strike comparisons to Benny Green and Geoff Keezer, but with musicality that hints at Brad Mehldau, Eigsti's album is a great listen. The CD opens with "Got A Match?" and right off the bat Eigsti opens with a smokin' two-handed solo that raises eyebrows. Next, "Juliette," is said to have been written in the studio by the trio (John Shifflett on bass and Jason Lewis on drums) and recorded in one take. "Oleo" continues the spectacle, particularly when Eigsti breaks into a stride solo late in the song that is astounding. Following "Angel Eyes" is an Eigsti original, "Avolation" which, along with the two other originals on the album ("Introspection" and "Uncle Smith," the latter being named for the late Smith Dobson, a bay area pianist whose influence on the young talent is evident) prove that Eigsti is not just playing party favors. The kid can PLAY, and this record proves why he turns heads all around the world. I highly suggest this album for anybody who wants to get in on the ground floor of a jazz legend.