[3] On "Too Late to Fall Back Baby", Mabern uses a synthesizer to add horn sounds to his electric piano playing.

[2] Pisces Calling was released by Trident Records on LP, and was reissued on CD in Japan in 2009.

[2] Crtiic Marc Myers wrote: "Throughout Pisces Calling, Mabern's fingering is commanding and lyrical.

His chords aren't merely played but hurled like fistfuls of darts, and there's an urgent snap to his delivery.

"[2] The New York Daily News reviewer commented that the title track "ebbs and flows with surging chords and liquid arpeggios strongly evocative of the sea.