Jazz Articles about Dave Meder

About Dave Meder

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Hymn tunes are having a bit of a moment with players such as Dave Douglas and James Brandon Lewis calling on these sturdy old melodies for projects that often wander far from their plain, homespun source material. On New American Hymnal (Outside in Music, 2023), pianist Dave Meder goes a step further by making the communal nature of hymn-singing a metaphor for the current state of society in the United States. “Modern Gothic" joyously references the simple triadic harmonies of ...

Radio & Podcasts

Dave Meder's New American Hymnal Plus Other New Releases

by Bob Osborne
August 17, 2023

On this show we featured a selection of new and recent releases from Dave Meder, Michael Blicher with Dan Hemmer & Steve Gadd, Ab Baars plus Ig Henneman with Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey, Leo Genovese with Demian Cabaud and Marcos Cavaleiro, Linda May Han Oh, Susan Alcorn with José Lencastre and Hernâni Faustino, Christian Dillingham, Nina Simone, Noah Gershwin, Nick Maclean Quartet ft. Brownman Ali, and, John Butcher with Pat Thomas and Dominic Lash & Steve Noble.

Album Review

Dave Meder: Passage

Read "Passage" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
February 2, 2019

"Philosophically, what I'm after is the lofty goal of being able to play everything," says 28-year-old pianist David Meder of his ambitions and crowd-sourced debut, Passage. Like he says, that's pretty lofty, if not downright cocky. But what is jazz, let alone any artistic endeavor, if not an equal mix of both, and the chops to pull it off? Upon repeated listenings of Passage, Meder is well on his way. A semifinalist in the 2018 Thelonious Monk International ...