An Evening with the Taylor Eigsti Quartet

4814 Chicago Ave,Minneapolis MN 55417

13 April, 2022

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An Evening with the Taylor Eigsti Quartet ALL AGES Taylor Eigsti A rare night of brilliant contemporary jazz with 2022 Grammy nominee jazz pianist & composer Taylor Eigsti and his band. Wednesday, April 13, 2022 An Evening with the Taylor Eigsti Quartet 6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music $35 Preferred Reserved Seating$25 Advance General AdmissionAll Ages Ticket Purchases are Final and Non-Refundable The Parkway Theater requires Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test Result for entry to all events. "HE'S THE MOST AMAZING TALENT I'VE COME ACROSS. REMEMBER HIM." — DAVE BRUBECK A rare night of brilliant contemporary jazz. With numerous Grammy nominations under his belt (including a 2022 Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for his 2021 release, Tree Falls), acclaimed jazz pianist & composer Taylor Eigsti and his band (guitarist Charles Altura, electric bassist David "DJ" Ginyard, and drummer Oscar Seaton) return to The Parkway! All four artists are members of Terence Blanchard's renowned E-Collective, who performed to a sold-out audience in November 2021. New York City-based pianist and composer Taylor Eigsti started playing the piano when he was four years old. Growing up in Menlo Park, CA, Eigsti was quickly labeled a prodigy, and has since released 8 albums as a bandleader, in addition to appearing on over 60 albums as a sideman. Eigsti has garnered 3 individual GRAMMY Award nominations over the years for his work as a recording artist and composer, including Best Instrumental Composition, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, and most recently received a 2022 GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for his eighth album as a leader, released in May 2021, entitled Tree Falls (GSI Records). Eigsti has also been featured on several other GRAMMY-nominated albums, including co-writing a featured composition with Don Cheadle for the 2017 GRAMMY-winning soundtrack to the motion picture Miles Ahead. Eigsti has performed, toured, or recorded with such luminaries as Dave Brubeck, Sting, Joshua Redman, Joshua Bell, Esperanza Spalding, Chris Botti, John Mayer, Vanessa Williams, Terence Blanchard, James Moody, Chris Potter, Nicholas Payton, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Snarky Puppy, Christian McBride, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Gretchen Parlato, Julian Lage, Ambrose Akinmusire, Joe Lovano, Hank Jones, and Frederica Von Stade, among many others over the years. It’s often said that a debut album encapsulates the lifetime of experience leading up to its recording. Given all that Taylor Eigsti has done since the release of his last studio album, the pianist’s ambitious GRAMMY-nominated Tree Falls is practically his second debut. Released on May 21, 2021 by GSI in digital form, it marks the triumphant return of an artist who’s been both a global road warrior and a constant—and consistent—composer. The 11 original compositions (a 12th, “Porch Break,” is a vinyl-only interlude) reflect his continued compositional pursuits including numerous long-form orchestral commissions in which he was a soloist starting in 2006. The album’s roster of musicians includes newer and longtime friends and collaborators. Guitarist Charles Altura and electric bassist David “DJ” Ginyard are bandmates in trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s E-Collective, with whom Eigsti has become a permanent member. (He and Altura first played together at Stanford Jazz Workshop when Eigsti was 11.) And Tree Falls drummer Eric Harland, co-owner of the state-of-the-art GSI Studios at which it was recorded, has been both Eigsti’s trusted sideman and later bandleader since 2006. Taylor Eigsti