Taylor Eigsti Group at Dinkelspiel Auditorium, July 30, 2019

Stanford Jazz Workshop presents the Taylor Eigsti Group featuring Matt Brewer, Dawn Clement, Jeff Parker, and Kendrick Scott
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Stanford University, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-3006 USA
8:00 PM, Tuesday, July 30, 2019

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[8:03 PM lights down, announcements; mic trouble for Jim Nadel; JN greetings; TE enters alone]

1. [8:08 PM] Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
   [8:12 PM; TE brings out MB & KS; MB on contrabass]
2. [8:13 PM] Darn That Dream
   [8:20 PM; TE back announce; introduces DB, JP; MB swaps to bass]
3. [8:23 PM] (unintelligible scribble, ?“Hotichinite”)
4. [8:29 PM] (unidentified; lyric snippet: “Ancient Oceans”) (DC)
5. [8:37 PM] Magnolia (DC)
   [8:43 PM; TE back announce]
6. [8:45 PM] Sandwiches
   [8:50 PM; TE introduces the next pair of songs]
7. [8:51 PM] Motion »
8. [8:58 PM] Underneath (DC)
   [9:03 PM; TE banter; drop JP, KS]
9. [9:04 PM] Rainbows
   [9:09 PM; add JP, KS; MB swaps back to contrabass]
10. [9:09 PM] Caravan (DC)
    [set ends 9:21 PM; TE introduces the band again; all off after bow]
    
    Encore
    [9:24 PM; all back after a few minutes; MB on bass]
11. [9:24 PM] Skylark (DC)
    [show ends 9:31 PM]

• Matt Brewer: contrabass, bass;
• Dawn Clement: Fender-Rhodes electric piano, vox;
• Taylor Eigsti: piano;
• Jeff Parker: guitar;
• Kendrick Scott: drums.

I don't recall that it was particularly dark inside Dinkelspiel, but my show notes for tonight are unusually hard to read. Might have something to do with the pint of Pliny that I had with dinner at Gott's? Something like that…

Both Caravan and Skylark were radically rearranged – with the latter being particularly hard to recognize. I'll give Taylor points for pushing himself creatively, but neither effort really hit the brass ring. Good effort, keep trying kid!

And while various sources had hyped Dawn Clement as both singer and song-writer, I wasn't much taken by what I heard tonight. Her electric piano was a little too far down in the mix for me to hear most of the time, and when I could hear her, it sounded as if she was contributing tone color more than making any sort of melodic statement. Yeah well, sometimes you need to give someone a couple chances to show their strengths, right?

Brightest spot of the night for me were Jeff Parker's solos – the more I hear him, the more I want to hear him play more!

Lily O'Brien posted a promo article in advance of the show with SFCV; to date, no one seems to have reviewed the gig, a pity!

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2019 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2019 event list! ☸ On to the next event!