Member Since: 7/20/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/jessechandler
Band Members: Jesse Chandler (organ, piano, moog, rhodes bass), Kris Bauman (saxomophone, clarinet); Bill Campbell (drums); John Ellis (saxophone); Mike Moreno (guitar); Albert Sanz (rhodes)
Influences: JAMC, MBV, SY, VU, YLT, YMG
Sounds Like: Here are the obligatory record reviews: "With that, I say we all better be checking out Jesse Chandler, because his new record transcends not only every cliche of organ jazz, but more momentously, casts aside many of the cliches of contemporary jazz in the process. A product of New York's New School, Chandler's part of the new school of modernists taking compositional inspiration from rock, film and electronic music. This compositional onus is taken in earnest, not as some spice to add to the conventional concoction to buffet sales. Hooks run deep, consisting of melodic sections having little to do with conventional jazz harmony and vocabulary and more to do with mood and atmosphere." ... "This is the record of the young 2004-so good that I can't see anyone coming along to challenge Jesse Chandler for new artist of the year." - Phil DiPietro, All About Jazz, January 2004 (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=13020) ------ "Jesse Chandler’s debut disc Somewhere:Between moves with quicksilver grace, pulling together everything from old-school fusion (there’s even a cheeky lift from In a Silent Way) to current mergers between small-group jazz and pop music." ... "An attractive, very playable fusion disc that insinuates rather than hits you over the head – what’s not to like?"- Nate Dorward, Cadence Magazine, Nov. 2004 (http://www.ndorward.com/music/fivecds_nov04.htm)
Record Label: Fresh Sound Records (www.freshsoundrecords.com)
Type of Label: Indie