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...]