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Album Notes

Don’t Fight The Inevitable is John Escreet’s eagerly awaited follow up to his award-winning debut album Consequences. It features the same personnel as that album, with the exception of a switch in the drum chair - David Binney (alto saxophone/electronics), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Matt Brewer (double bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums).

The album contains all-new original material composed by John, with the only cover on the album being an imaginative reinterpretation of Muhal Richard Abram’s Charlie In The Parker.

The album continues John’s concept of documenting a working band – it was recorded in NYC immediately upon returning from a nine-date European tour. “I wrote the new material specifically for this project, with these guys in mind”, says John. “Rehearsing the material in NYC, and then playing it one the road for nine consecutive nights really allowed us to explore and get inside the music. It opened up in ways I had never even imagined, and it granted us the kind of freedom that is only possible once everybody knows the music REALLY well. I think this definitely comes across on the album. When we hit the studio it almost felt like we were still on tour – in fact, the opening track of the album is the very first thing we laid down in the studio – it has that ‘fresh-from the-road’ vibe.”

Don’t Fight The Inevitable reflects John’s broad range of musical tastes and influences, as well as his ever-evolving skills as a highly original composer/pianist at the forefront of contemporary music.

“ Pianist John Escreet’s recent debut Consequences signals the jumpstart of a new voice in jazz.” – Downbeat

“A Superb band” – The New York Times