Eddie Gripper
contemporary jazz post-bop
Influences: Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett
Pianist Eddie Gripper leads a trio through his album 'Americana', a suite of original compositions inspired by an 8,000 km hitchhiking journey from Alaska to California. The music evokes vast landscapes and specific moments from that journey with relaxed virtuosity, balancing imaginative treatments of standards with original material of refreshing originality rooted in the post-bop piano tradition.
Personnel:
Eddie Gripper (piano)
Clem Saynor (double bass)
Patrick Barrett-Donlon (drums)