David Chesky – Aural Paintings (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:15 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chesky Records
While conceived as a series of tonal paintings, somehow David Chesky’s cornucopia of oblique ruminations on TRIO IN THE NEW HARMONIC suggest to this scribe something more declamatory, and poetically austere, like some non-denominational evening service at a distant Northern latitude and longitude, bathed in a wintery glow, with the faint promise of spring colors peeking through the firmament-illuminating a largely black and white canvas with pastel intimations of some elusive wakening.
As such, the sonic pedigree of Chesky’s conceptions, informed as they are on one hand by a tonality redolent of the Second Viennese School of Arnold Schonberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern, and a collective improvisational sensibility which evokes the prayerful impressionistic ruminations of Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock and Paul Bley, suggests elements of both 20th Century Classicism and of Modern Jazz in its most chamber like iterations.
Tracklist:
1-1. David Chesky – Painting No. 1 (08:25)
1-2. David Chesky – Painting No. 2 (09:34)
1-3. David Chesky – Painting No. 3 (09:01)
1-4. David Chesky – Painting No. 4 (08:21)
1-5. David Chesky – Painting No. 5 (09:56)
1-6. David Chesky – Painting No. 6 (07:29)
1-7. David Chesky – Painting No. 7 (09:15)
1-8. David Chesky – Painting No. 8 (07:12)