David Paul Mesler In Spiritu 2 CD

"Brilliant" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer"Stunning" -- Victory Music"A Sure Winner" -- Sound Choice* * * * *DAVID PAUL MESLER is a genre-defying artist whose adventurous jazz band plays over 125 dates a year. An award-winning pianist and an Emmy-nominated composer, David uses his classical training and 25 years as a professional jazz musician to explore jazz-classical hybrids in unconventional and dramatic ways. Virtuosic in the extreme, versatile in the extreme, and consistently inspired, David is now considered Northwest piano royalty and has been compared favorably to McCoy Tyner, Keith Jarrett, Cecil Taylor, Ahmad Jamal, Thelonius Monk, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, and Bud Powell.IN SPIRITU III is the final act in a dramatic free improv trilogy that uses Gregorian chant and spirituals as the jumping off point. David Paul Mesler is on piano, Doug Miller is on upright bass, and Brian Kirk is on drums. Volume III of a three-volume set.* * * * *"Mesler is amazing" -- Bill Clinton"Mesler improvises with a difference" -- Earshot Jazz"Rhapsodic Sturm and Drang" -- Cadence* * * * *PLAYED ON THE SAME BILL AS: Diane Schuur, The Manhattan Transfer, Harry Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, Burt Bacharach, Lionel Richie, Debbie Gibson, Skitch Henderson, Philip Glass, Lyle Lovett, Bruce Hornsby, Jackson 5, Sister Sledge, Barry Manilow, Garrison Keillor, Harvey Feirstein, The Capitol Steps* * * * *"Gorgeous" -- KING-FM"Great Jazz" -- KPLU-FM"Northwest All-Star Band" -- KEXP-FM"Magnificent" -- Benaroya Hall"Multiple Ovations" -- Town Hall* * * * *PLAYED FOR: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George Bush, Steven Speilberg, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Harrison Ford, Julie Harris, Tom Brokaw, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Gene Kelly, Dudley Moore, The Brat Pack (casts of) Saturday Night Live, Good Times, The Jeffersons, Different Strokes, Love American Style, Laugh-In, The Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched* * * * *"Energetic" -- The Stranger"Sexy" -- Bainbridge Review"Frenzied" -- Victory Music"Blues-By-Rachmaninov" -- Cadence* * * * *ALBUMS: The Balladeer, Pacific Sailings, In Spiritu I, II, & III, The Beautiful, I Hear America Singing Vol. I, II, III, & IV, The Blue Diary, The Dream Journal Murders, Celebrating Gershwin Vol. I & II, Celebrating Ellington, Just A Lucky So And So, Cloudburst, Reverie, Blue Smoke November Waltz, The Piano Diaries, Moonsongs* * * * *"Impressive" -- Sound Choice"Hook-Filled" -- Sound Choice"Heartily Recommended" -- Heartsong Review"Heartily Recommended" -- Missing Link"Critic's Choice" -- The Stranger"Critic's Choice" -- The Weekly"Critic's Choice" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer"Critic's Choice" -- Seattle Times* * * * *FILMS: The Wrong Guy, Battlefield Earth, Eloise At The Plaza, Eloise At Christmastime, First Daughter, King Arthur, Sea Of Dreams, Finding Home, Dennis The Menace Strikes Again, The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants, The Grudge 2 (with) John Travolta, Julie Andrews, Forest Whitaker, Michael Keaton, Genevieve Bujold, Loise Fletcher, Sonia Braga, Katie Holmes, Clive Owens, Kids In The Hall (sessions for) Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM, Touchstone, New Line Pictures, Handmade Films, ABC* * * * *"Zesty" -- The News Tribune"Graceful" -- Option"Moody" -- Missing Link"Romantic" -- The Weekly"Unmistakable Passion" -- Bainbridge Review* * * * *TELEVISION: Days Of Our Lives, The Miracle Strip, The Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway, Pioneers In Aviation, Sun Microsystems, The Day Elvis Met Nixon* * * * *"Intelligent" -- Heartsong Review"Sophisticated" -- Victory Music"Accomplished" -- The New Times"Beautiful" -- Missing Link* * * * *MAJOR WORKS: (orchestral and choral) The March Macabre, The Breakfast Table, Blue Nocturne, Psalm 23 (songbooks) D.H. Lawrence, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, James Thurber (musicals and dance theater) Only A Dream Away, Sometime's It's Magic, Gaping Generations And Gunshot Wounds, Blue Nocturne, The Balla