Seismic Shift

Escreet has a strikingly unique approach to jazz that’s largely both highly percussive, dense harmonically and full of tension, and Seismic Shift is no exception; yet there’s an eerie quality... — Jazzwise, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Oct 2022
Catalogue No: WR4793
Label: Whirlwind Recordings

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Pianist John Escreet, hailed by Time Out London as a transatlantic jazz genius, continues his artistic ascent with the bold, exploratory new album Seismic Shift. It is Escreets ninth album as a leader but his first at the helm of a trio, and also one of the first to see release since his move to the West Coast in early 2020. The UK native, former Brooklynite and now Los Angeles transplant teams up with fellow Angelenos Eric Revis (bass) and Damion Reid (drums) for a set brimming with fire and invention.

Seismic Shift offers ground-shaking evidence that Escreet, with his limitless technique, harmonic imagination and refined grasp of the improvisers art, ranks as one of the top pianist-auteurs of our time. Equally at home in mainstream, electric, avant-garde and world jazz contexts, he has also built a reputation as a versatile sideman and collaborator with credits including Antonio Sanchez, Tyshawn Sorey, Amir ElSaffar, David Binney, and Evan Parker to name a few.

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Escreet has a strikingly unique approach to jazz that’s largely both highly percussive, dense harmonically and full of tension, and Seismic Shift is no exception; yet there’s an eerie quality in his ambiguously-voiced spread chords compared to his more aggressively accented, sonic splashes and dense, spiky phrasing.

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