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Becky Archibald

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Becky Archibald is an award-winning pianist, composer, recording artist, and educator. Spanning solo piano to chamber music to jazz, Becky’s music has taken her far – from Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall (solo debut, 2006) to a California house concert playing Frank Sinatra’s piano, to the Dordogne Jazz Summer School (DJSS) in Monteton, France (composer-in-residence since 2009.) Known for her innovative programming, she produced “Fresh-Faced Jazz” for the Indianapolis Spirit and Place Festival, featuring jazz artists performing inner city children’s first musical compositions, and a live radio concert on WFYI’s “The Classical Connection,” featuring Archibald performing her compositions with members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, along with a reading by award-winning author and classical music reviewer for the New Yorker Magazine, Alex Ross

Album

Midnight At Monteton

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Deux Chapeaux; Once Is Not Enough; Can’t Let It Go; Lullaby; One-O-Four; Lemonade; If You Only Knew; Midnight At Monteton; Le Tour De Jack; And Then There Were Two; Bullet Proof Blues; Never Alone; Still Something To Say; No Walk In The Park; Anniversary Waltz.

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Article: Album Review

Becky Archibald: Midnight At Monteton

Read "Midnight At Monteton" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Pianist and composer Becky Archibald's sixth release as a leader, Midnight at Monteton is a diverse collection of highly polished originals with catchy harmonic hooks. Recorded over a span of three years, Archibald is heard mostly with a variety of her regular collaborators creating a relaxed amicable mood that permeates the entire album. The ...

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Article: Album Review

Becky Archibald: Midnight At Monteton

Read "Midnight At Monteton" reviewed by Chris Mosey


Becky Archibald is an extremely talented lady. Relatively new to jazz, her composing and arranging skills at best warrant comparison with those of such great names as Marty Paich and Mary Lou Williams. Though they are all her own and bang up to date. A native of Anderson, Indiana, she sums up her ...

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Video

Cultural Trail Theme

Featuring the music of Becky Archibald
Duration: 06:30

World premiere of "Cultural Trail Theme," composed and arranged by Becky Archibald, for the grand opening of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail. Performers: Jim Farrelly -- lead alto saxophone, Ben Stueve -- alto saxophone, Rich Cohen -- tenor saxophone, Mark Ortwein -- baritone saxophone, Marvin Perry II -- trumpet, Paul Berns -- vibraphone, Raul Padro -- congas, Becky Archibald -- keyboard and cycla-phone, Fred Withrow -- electric bass, Gene Markiewicz -- guiro and drums. Produced by WFYI Productions

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