Chicago-based pianist Paul Bedal has a crispness to his style of play. Not too ornate or flowery, expressive but direct, illustrative but pointed. This is his style on the keys and compositionally, as much as one can tell from his latest album, Mirrors, out now on BACE Records.Bedal's compositions are, as previously noted, direct, balanced, even-handed. "Glendale" is the … [Read more...]
Jesse Fischer – ‘Day Dreamer’
Pianist/keyboardist Jesse Fischer has always focused on the groove in his music. It's a bent of his that can at times lean to a kind of populism, it can also at times feel like overseasoning. Yet Fischer's latest album, Day Dreamer, and album from the new father, an album more rested, more settled, is his most straightforward collection of songs yet.The R&B influence that … [Read more...]
Jesse Fischer feat. Leon “Foster” Thomas – Nomads (Video)
Keyboardist Jesse Fischer is set to release his next album, Day Dreamer, on September 25 on Ropeadope Records. It's an album that sits back a bit elementally, Fischer as more contemplative,as his press release states, as he approaches fatherhood. What results is a less is more sound that may be some of his strongest work yet. The album opener, "Nomads", features Leon " Foster" … [Read more...]