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High Standards
By Billy Lester
Label: Ultra Sound Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: There Will Never Be Another You; Somebody Loves Me; What Is This Thing Called Love?; I’ll
Remember April; You Go to My Head; Just Friends; Out of Nowhere; Lover, Come Back to Me;
Free Improvisation.
Billy Lester: High Standards
by Richard J Salvucci
This is a very difficult recording to evaluate. If Billy Lester is living in Italy, the Italians are lucky. Someone has to be beyond sophisticated to pull off what Lester has done. He has, in essence, taken the GAS (Great American Songbook) and, with perhaps one exception, has improvised to the chord changes over the tunes. ...
The Billy Lester Trio: High Standards
by Pierre Giroux
With The Billy Lester Trio pianist Billy Lester offers a thrilling new chapter in his decades-long exploration of melodic abstraction and rhythmic vitality. Joined by bassist Marcello Testa and drummer Nicola Stranieri, Lester delivers a set that is as spontaneous, virtuosic, and inventive as any in his discography. For those unfamiliar with his music, this album ...
Billy Lester Trio: High Standards
by Jack Bowers
Pianist Billy Lester's album High Standards, recorded in 2017 in Italy, encompasses Lester's singular versions of eight memorable standards from the Great American Songbook. Although Lester plays sublimely, and his Italian rhythm section is first-class, the lingering impression is that something is missing. Yes, something is clearly missing...but what could it be? Lester's ...
Italy 2016
By Billy Lester
Label: Ultra Sound Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: An Evening With Friends; Yeah Man!; To Julia; Pop Pop Train; Consolidation; Omens.
Abandoned and Forgotten
Label: Ultra Sound Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. La via lungo il mare (R. Carella); 2. Tu si 'na cosa grande (Gigli-Modugno); 3. E se poi (R. Carella); 4. Abandoned lands (R. Carella); 5. Stella by starlight (Victor Young); 6. Thanks Wes (R. Carella); 7. Um dia de chuvisco (R. Carella); 8. The Maghreb girl (R. Carella); 9. Quel posto nel cuore (R. Carella); 10. Giudizi Universali (S. Bersani); 11. Biancospino (R. Carella); 12. Man in the mirror (M. Jackson); 13. Honeysuckle (R. Carella); 14. All my love (R. Carella); 15. The sunset ballad (R. Carella)
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. ...
Nausicaa
Label: Ultra Sound Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Below Sea Level; The Famous G; Last Whistle; Invisible Lady; Nausicaa; Lucinda's Dream; Clapton Cowboys; Nausicaa--reprise.
Kristian Borring: Nausicaa
by Bruce Lindsay
Nausicaa is the debut album from London-based Danish guitarist Kristian Borring. It's an assured and confident debut, demonstrating Borring's talents as a composer and player. There are some complex time signatures on display, but they're never overdone and the music remains accessible from the get-go. Borring studied guitar in Holland and in London, ...
