MP3 Billy Lester - Captivatin´ Rhythm

Modern solo and trio jazz piano performing fresh and original compositions influenced by Bud Powell, Sal Mosca, and Lennie Tristano.

12 MP3 Songs in this album (66:46) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Piano Jazz, JAZZ: Contemporary Jazz

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Coda Magazine 1998 Writers Choice


âLester comes straight out of left field with a record like this, one that confounds most of the stereotypes in contemporary jazz piano. Though he plays slow as often as fast, and never at the hurricane tempo of original bebop, he sounds more closely attuned to bopâs lexicon than many a more fêted contemporary playerâ¦Some of the tracks were cut as far back as 1985 while others are more recent; but the record unfolds as all of a pieceâ¦Lester manages to suggest the fleetness of right-hand bop lines while never neglecting his left hand and the result is a music filled with dark sonorities, swinging without surrendering a certain inner reserve.â

Richard Cook & Brian Morton
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, Third Edition


âThis is music with real character, spiky and tangential in a period when more and more jazz piano sounds like background musicâ¦Itâs a tonic to all the obviousness that characterizes more common approaches. Thereâs growing interest in purer bop styles, and Billy Lester deserves a listen.â

Stuart Broomer
Cadence Magazine
August 1996


âLester explores the intricacies of keyboard improvisation while combining a variety of influencesâ¦[He] exhibits a texturally complex compositional style realized over the ferociously swinging rhythm section of [Frank] Canino and [Ed] Ornowski.â

John Cardinale
WKCR FM, New York City
April 1996