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The Billy Lester Trio: Italy 2016
by Dan McClenaghan
Piano trios jazz can charm or seduce, and occasionally mesmerize. In modern times, they can also rock the house, but they seldom jump out of the speakers at you with joy. The Billy Lester Trio, Italy 2016, does just that. The initial impression of pianist Lester's influences--as the opener “An Evening With Friends" plays--is Bud Powell. ...
Unabridged
By Billy Lester
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Overture: Passionate Musings;
Jamba Swing;
One After Another;
Blues for Charlie Christian;
Spree-Ing;
Songbook Harmony;
Self-Encounters;
Finale-3:43- Reprise.
Visceral
By Billy Lester
Label: Coppens Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: G Minor Jazz; You Go To My Head; Out of Nowhere; Too Marvelous For Words; Everything Happens To Me; Just Friends.
Billy Lester: Visceral
by Francis Lo Kee
On this set of five standards and one original, pianist Billy Lester displays a strong original approach to jazz improvisation. He also leads a flexible, yet muscular trio, that moves along with him with telepathic skill. Lester has a wide range of approaches: single-note right-hand lines, dissonant block chords, left-hand bass runs that ...
Four into Four
By Billy Lester
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Person-L (9:55)
2. Grasshopper's Holiday (11:05)
3. G-Minor Jazz (8:02)
4. Oso Furioso (7:26)
5. Skip's Bounce (8:39)
Billy Lester: Four into Four
by Elliott Simon
Four into Four, recorded live at NYC’s Roulette, with its sense of swing and tight rhythms, gives the impression that the Billy Lester Quartet can see for miles, but then those who stand on the shoulders of giants can. Pianist Lester is a self-admitted anachronism who during the ‘50s and ‘60s, while piano jazz evolved modally ...
