Taylor Eigsti Group feat. Gretchen Parlato and Zack Grooves

Taylor Eigsti’s annual performance at the Stanford Jazz Festival typically falls in the Festival’s last week, providing a bold exclamation point to the previous weeks of musical adventures. Though he’s never hidden his incandescent talent, Eigsti waited a decade between albums before reemerging with 2020’s Tree Falls, a GRAMMY winner. His 2023 release, Plot Armor, took home another GRAMMY, and he’s joined here by the luminous Gretchen Parlato, who lends her voice to both albums.

Eigsti has toured widely with Parlato and recorded on several of her albums. They’re thrilled to regroup with a newer collaborator, YouTube sensation ZackGrooves (aka Zack Graybeal). A stellar drummer who was known mostly as a busy sideman around North Carolina, he’s turned his YouTube channel into a bustling educational resource for fellow trap set acolytes with close to a half-million subscribers. ZachGrooves has been touring with Eigsti over the past couple of years, including a 2024 European jaunt featuring Parlato and tenor saxophonist Ben Wendel and a fall 2025 European tour with vocalist Becca Stevens. The concert has all the makings of a season highlight.

Artist Website

GRAMMY Article

WBGO Article

Personnel:

• Taylor Eigsti, piano
• Zack Graybeal, drums
• Ben Williams, bass
• Gretchen Parlato, vocals

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