REVIEW | “New York Études, Volume 2′ by Jeff Beal

Practice. Study. Repetition.
These are the familiar patterns of learning: for a musical instrument, a new language or most other skills. Dreaming. Resting. Feeling. Are these modes the break from that work, or can they also be a part of it? Those interlocking experiences were on my mind while listening to Jeff Beal’s new album, “New York Etudes Volume 2,” letting the gentle patterns of the piano solos wash over me.  In his two volumes of “études&rdq