Forest Floor

Forest Floor is the third studio album by Scottish jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie, released on 8 April 2022 by Edition Records.

Other Scottish musicians such as trumpeter Colin Steele and drummer Tom Bancroft have drawn on similar sources, as has pianist Dave Milligan, but nobody has integrated these into the format of the jazz piano trio quite as convincingly and successfully as McCreadie."

"[7] London Jazz News's Graham Spry agrees, writing that "Fergus McCreadie's music is very much rooted in his native country, and yet it has both audience and critical appeal well beyond Scotland's shores.

"[3] Jazz Views's Nick Lea calls McCreadie "too young to apply the old adage of improving with age", but that this still appears to be occurring for the whole trio who have "developed intuitively, and almost telepathically, to a level of integration that is phenomenal", with "truly breath taking" playing throughout the record that "continues to remind us why the piano trio occupies such a vital, vibrant, ever changing and ubiquitous presence in jazz.

"[8] JazzTimes's Andrew Hamlin says McCreadie "ignites" the album "with a flurry of precisely placed notes, rich harmonies in forest-fire motion.