Artist: Neil Cowley

Date of Release: 06/06/0006

Catalogue no: 963

Label: Hide Inside Records

Price: £11.99

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Track Listing

Displaced, an outstanding album of original recordings that present Cowley as a thoroughly modern player with an impeccable touch. As a pianist, Neil Cowley is dazzling, and as a composer he is stunning. With Richard Sadler on double bass, and Evan Jenkins on drums, Cowley has assembled a masterful jazz trio, whose bursts of energy and emotional infectiousness underpin Cowley’s tremendous flair for creating beautiful, sometimes forceful melodies.

Having rehearsed the material for one week, The Neil Cowley Trio recorded Displaced in one take over two days at Real World Studios. For Cowley, the tunes on Displaced had to tick the boxes of the past masters that live on his shoulders. Shostakovich, Ahmad Jahmal, Frank Zappa, Errol Garner, Taraf de Haidouks. “I love a chord!” he says, “My chords always come before my melody. Each chord has to have its own life and story and touch on something I feel. The melody is often how my fingers play around those chords.”

Displaced is an album of emotional integrity, and one that will surely become contender for Jazz Album of the Year. One thing is for sure, The Neil Cowley Trio have produced an album that demonstrates what should be at the core of all music making. Playing for sheer joy!

Reviews

12/07/0006 Mojo

"An absolute feast... debut of the year"

08/06/0006 The Times

"an adventurous eclecticism... resonant tunes, some rock dynamic and a fine sense of swing mark this debut out as special"

01/06/0006 Jazzwise

"Thrilling... dynamic... one of the most distinctive debuts you're likely to hear this year"