There’s a calm precision in Zack Gross’s “Waves”, the kind that only comes from years spent at the keys: fingers disciplined by classical rigor, heart loosened by improvisation. From his earliest piano lessons at five to his time shaping sound at Miami’s Frost School and Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, Gross has learned to treat melody like an evolving tide: sometimes gentle, sometimes overwhelming, always in motion. “Waves” feels like standing at the threshold between intellect and instinct. Classical phrasing ripples through pop clarity, while bluesy undercurrents and electronic textures break against the surface, reforming into something both elegant and unexpected.
