David Cook – Loyal Returns (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:48 minutes | 866 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The life of a professional musician typically requires stretching beyond a single genre to insure a healthy career. Pianist David Cook is a jazz pianist and composer of the highest order. He also wears another hat as a musical director in the realms of pop, folk, and blues. Returning to jazz and his incredible quintet is as much a pleasure for him as for his listeners, as heard on his new recording, Loyal Returns.
Originally from Ohio, Cook settled in New York City in 1999. His career in music has required him to split his time between his own jazz related projects and being a musical director for big name acts like Taylor Swift, Shoshana Bean, and Shayna Steele. Even with all these divergent tasks, Cook remains true to first love: jazz.
The pianist takes inspiration from the entirety of the jazz canon but has been particularly attracted toward blending the classic quintet sounds of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with the sounds of more contemporary practitioners, like Kneebody and Fred Hersch’s quintet. Cook’s music therefore blends straight ahead with a certain ethereal, through composed feel, with a groove ever present.
Tracklist:
1-1. David Cook – The Flaw (In My Business Model) (03:33)
1-2. David Cook – Hawks (07:06)
1-3. David Cook – Blues In Muri (06:18)
1-4. David Cook – St. Lawrence (03:49)
1-5. David Cook – Visitor From Everywhere (01:25)
1-6. David Cook – Party Song (04:38)
1-7. David Cook – Loyal Returns (06:39)
1-8. David Cook – Brighter Places (04:10)
1-9. David Cook – Night Circle (04:06)
