Album Review: Follow Up from Eric Lilley
Album: Follow Up Artist: Eric Lilley Label: Goat Music Website: https://ericlilley.com From Latin salsas to funky grooves, slinky bop-infused struts and free-style ruminations, pianist Eric Lilley travels through a gamut of jazz-inspired patinas on his latest release Follow Up . Supported by Mark Diamond on bass and Dru Heller on drums, the trio create a lively banter that demands listeners to simply sit back and let the music fill in the empty spaces of their lives. The traipsing stride of Lilley's keys glinting along "The Weston Walk" are layered by the taut pulse of Mark Diamond's bass and the frolicking drumming of Dru Heller. The trio form a plush thickness across the melodic progressions that continues to take centerstage through the prancing ripples of the bass clinging to the frenzied statements made by the keys in "The Hollow Way," delivering a hardcore bop-bent in the trio's spontaneous prattle. Lilley's free-style leanings in ...