Remember the latter’s Nut Rocker? Cowley’s piano playing has a similar percussive joviality – as on the batty Gerald here – and, like the late Esbjorn Svensson, he has a talent for tender, deceptively simple melodies.
Three albums into their career, the Neil Cowley Trio are increasingly confirming the first impression they made back in Edinburgh’s Jazz Bar in the mid-noughties as the missing link between EST and B Bumble And The Stingers.
Remember the latter’s Nut Rocker? Cowley’s piano playing has a similar percussive joviality – as on the batty Gerald here – and, like the late Esbjorn Svensson, he has a talent for tender, deceptively simple melodies.