Cerulean Stars by Paul Bedal available today on vinyl, CD, digital album and streaming

Paul Bedal releases his newest album Cerulean Stars. Featuring six original compositions and one improvised piece the album encapsulates a one-day session recorded at Pro Musica by Ken Christianson. The album features Bedal’s long-time bandmates Nick Mazzarella, Matt Ulery, and Charles Rumback marking the second release as a quartet and Bedal’s fourth as a leader.

"On Cerulean Stars, classical leanings and jazz formalism intersect with the post-freedom aesthetic of Chicago’s storied avant-garde. But don’t expect some sort of dialectical mashup; you won’t have to confront some split-personality collision of opposing forces. Instead, pianist Paul Bedal and company have seamlessly blended their diverse experiences, investing his fully structured compositions with liberating energy. He provides the blueprint, and his cohorts color outside the lines."
-Neil Tesser