With Adele's album "21" being this year's global chart topper and the biggest selling album of the decade, pianist Neil Cowley is - quite literally – the most listened to pianist on the planet this year. Add to that his contributions to the forthcoming release from Scottish singer-songwriter Emeli Sande who was announced the winner of the 2012 Brits Critics Choice award recently, plus recording sessions with its runner-up Michael Kiwanuka, and it's no surprise that Cowley is the go-to piano man.
Yet his is not a name you're likely to see in too many of next year's CD sleeve credits. For Cowley's passion lies with his own band, the Neil Cowley Trio, an award-winning piano, bass and drums outfit whose jazz-meets-rock ethic have earned him a raft of plaudits across the musical spectrum.
On 23rd January, the Neil Cowley Trio will be releasing their new recording, "The Face of Mount Molehill", on Naim, from which "Rooster Was A Witness" is taken.
