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Neil Cowley Trio: Radio Silence (Naim Jazz)

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.