Punch Elliot Galvin Trio

• 1 Punch and Judy 04:42
• 2 Hurdy-gurdy 04:02
• 3 Tipu's Tiger 05:40
• 4 Rolling 00:10
• 5 Blop 03:30
• 6 Lions 03:09
• 7 1666 02:51
• 8 Mack The Knife 05:47
• 9 Polari 03:46
• 10 Cosy 04:36
• Total Runtime 38:13

Info for Punch

Elliot Galvin is one of the rising stars of jazz. A superbly gifted composer and pianist with a maverick imagination, he has a magpie-like ability to blend a disparate world of influences into his own. Galvin's music is both playful and deadly serious, drawing on a wide range of influences from Keith Jarrett and Stravinsky to Deerhoof and the Beatles, as well as the films of David Lynch, the Dada movement and the literature of James Joyce. Winner of the 2014 European Young Jazz Artist of the Year Award in Germany, the Elliot Galvin Trio released their début album Dreamland to rave reviews, with the Guardian calling it ''audaciously accomplished'' and BBC Radio 3 saying it was ''bold and progressive.'' Punch marks the trio's Edition Records début.

„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)

„With Punch Elliot Galvin has produced an even better album than his first, excellently iconoclastic recording, and whilst his compositions might initially appear challenging, they're actually quite brilliantly inventive, retaining the pianist's idiosyncratic style and wry sense of humour.“ (AllAboutJazz)

Elliot Galvin, piano, kalimba, melodica, accordion, stylophone
Tom McCredie, double bass
Simon Roth, drums, percussion, glockenspiel

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, which in 2014 was announced winner of the European Young Jazz Artist of the Year Award in Germany. That same year they released their debut album ‘Dreamland’ to rave reviews, with the Guardian calling it “audaciously accomplished” ****, Jez Nelson (BBC Radio 3, Jazz on 3) saying it was “Perhaps one of the strongest debuts that I’ve heard from a UK artist in a long while… extremely bold and progressive” and The German magazine ‘JazzThing’ naming it as an album of the year.

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