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Saxophonist Lynn Riley & The World-Mix 'Head To The Sky' Released June 25th!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
“She’s a show stopper. She wails, she grooves, she swings. She plays with authority, with power, with soul.” These are the words to describe Lynn Riley by Ron Avery of the Philadelphia Daily News. A powerful dynamo in a tiny package, Riley has been described more than once as the “Superwoman” of the saxophone. Philadelphia homegrown jazz meets world-music to inspire this collection of original compositions and distinctive classics. Lynn Riley and her band The World-Mix are known for melding ...
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Recent Listening In Brief: Black Art Jazz Collective, Lynn Arriale
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Black Art Jazz Collective, Armor of Pride (High Note Records) Half of the Collective’s members are leading lights among jazz artists in their forties and early fifties. They include trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery and pianist Xavier Davis. The younger trombonist James Burton III, bassist Vicente Archer and drummer Jonathan Blake blend into a modern mainstream sextet inspired, at least in part, by Wayne Shorter’s writing during his Art Blakey period (and since) and by Miles Davis’s pre-electronic ...
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Jazz this week: Bruce Barth, Erin Bode, Victor Goines, Lynne Fiddmont, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With some relatively mild weather in the forecast and a nice variety of performances happening over the next several days, the weekend leading up to Valentine's Day should be a good time for jazz lovers in St. Louis. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 8 Pianist Bruce Barth returns for the first of two nights at Jazz at the Bistro, leading a trio with bassist Dave Baron and St. Louis' own Montez Coleman on drums. Barth is a jazz ...
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R.I.P. Gene Lynn, singer and nightclub owner
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Gene Lynn, the jny: St. Louis singer and former nightclub owner sometimes described as “the black Frank Sinatra," has died. Friends reported today on Facebook that he passed away early Saturday morning after recently suffering a stroke and a recurrence of stomach cancer. Born Leon Campbell in Mobile, AL, the sixth of ten children, Lynn (pictured) graduated from Mobile County Training School and then moved with his family to St. Louis. He adopted his stage name and broke into the ...
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Jazz This Week: Pat Martino; Lynne Fiddmont and Keith Fiddmont; Copland, Peacock and Baron; Holiday Jazz; and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Whether you're looking for jazz explicitly flavored with a bit of holiday spirit, or not, there's plenty to choose from on this week's menu of jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, guitarist Pat Martino (pictured) returns to St. Louis for the first time since 2010 to begin a four-night engagement at Jazz at the Bistro. Though he's worked in other contexts, Martino generally favors the organ trio format, and for this visit, ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lynn Seaton
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Lynn Seaton's birthday today!
Lynn Seaton has had a stellar career as a jazz bassist. Born in Oklahoma in 1957, he started playing the bass at age 9. By the late 70’s he was performing around the state. From 1980 until 1984 he was the house bassist at the Blue Wisp Jazz Club in Cincinnati, accompanying big name guest soloists every week. In 1984, he joined Woody Herman and in 1985 he played with the ...
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With Fierce and Elegant Conviction: Lynne Arriale in the Twin Cities
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
So what do Hoagy Carmichael, Abduallah Ibrahim, Monk, Sting and Blondie have in common? Lynne Arriale. At any given performance, on any recent recording, the pianist's set list can cover all of the above, along with a good sampling of her own compositions. This may not seem all that unusual in this era of modern jazz artists taking on, and taking apart, anything from the full genre labeled “music." What is more unusual is finding an artist of Arriale's caliber ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lynn Seaton
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Lynn Seaton's birthday today!
Lynn Seaton has had a stellar career as a jazz bassist. Born in Oklahoma in 1957, he started playing the bass at age 9. By the late 70’s he was performing around the state. From 1980 until 1984 he was the house bassist at the Blue Wisp Jazz Club in Cincinnati, accompanying big name guest soloists every week. In 1984, he joined Woody Herman and in 1985 he played with the ...
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Cheryl Lynne Skinner Producer At Elinez Music Announces 2nd Contemporary Muse MP3 Project Releases “Heartbeats”
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Cheryl Lynne Skinner
Louisville, KY: Composer-Musician Cheryl Lynne Skinner is happy to announce the 2nd Contemporary Muse MP3 Project at cheryllynneskinner.com. Elinez Music, Skinner’s independent label is excited to release an mp3 single each month April-July this summer. This year’s project will feature tracks from The Love Chronicles Collection exploring the stages and phases of “love“. The first flute instrumental dance track “Heartbeats” explores feelings of infatuation, attraction, “love at first sight” and new love that wants to dance. The MP3’s can be ...
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Jazz Bridge Presents Lynn Riley At The Kennett Flash Wed. May 2nd!
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Jim Miller
Appearing on Wednesday, May 2nd at the Kennett Flash, 102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square, PA, for the last concert of this season will be saxophonist Lynn Riley and her band World Mix. Showtime: 7:30 p.m. One show. $10/$5 students. No advance sales. For info: Call 484-732-8295. This concert is produced by Jazz Bridge, a nonprofit that assists jazz and blues musicians in crisis who work and live in the Greater Philadelphia Metro area. Lynn Riley has performed with many great ...
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