Elliot Galvin Trio - Punch (2016)

Elliot Galvin is one of the rising stars of UK jazz. A superbly gifted composer and pianist, whose maverick imagination and magpie-like ability to blend a disparate world of influences into his own unique musical vision has seen him compared to Django Bates, although in truth he sounds like no one except himself. From deconstructing standards to creating his own microtonal melodica, Galvin s music is both playful and deadly serious, drawing on a wide range of influences from Keith Jarrett to Stravinsky, Ligetti, Deerhoof and the Beatles as well as the films of David Lynch, the Dada movement and the literature of James Joyce. A regular collaborator with Laura Jurd, he also plays in a free improv duo with Mark Sanders, but his main artistic vehicle is the Elliot Galvin Trio. He reminds me of the young Django Bates, and the impression Django made on me in the 1980s great improv chops, strong character as a player and a composer, evident love of the jazz tradition without wanting to repeat the past, very English sense of humour. He s the kind of artist you always want to stay tuned in to, because you know he s going to keep on coming up with surprises. John Fordham

TRACKLIST
01. Punch and Judy
02. Hurdy-Gurdy
03. Tipu's Tiger
04. Rolling
05. Blop
06. Lions
07. 1666
08. Mack the Knife
09. Polari
10. Cosy