Tyson Naylor Trio

Tyson Naylor is a Vancouver-born pianist, accordionist and composer. After spending three years living in Berlin, where he played with ICP Orchestra members Tobias Delius and Tristan Honsinger, as well as free jazz drummer Christian Lillinger, he moved back to Canada. In addition to recording and touring in Dan Mangan’s band (in the process garnering a Juno), he formed a formidable piano trio of his own with Vancouver bassist Russell Sholberg and drummer Skye Brooks and took it into the studio for his long-overdue debut recording, with the brilliant Vancouver clarinettist François Houle guesting on two tracks. Although the trio enjoys creating improvised sonic spaces, Naylor’s compositions draw from a rich pool of musical influences as far reaching as West Africa, Amsterdam, New Orleans and South Africa. Songlines founder Tony Reif describes Naylor’s debut CD, Kosmonauten, as “a diverse but ultimately unifying record that well displays the group’s strengths – great rapport across a range of styles and grooves, from stompin’, jazzed-up rock’n’roll to free improv; writing that taps into a rich vein of lyricism; and a playful yet at the same time highly comm... more...