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Andrew Lion
Andrew Lion is a Bend, OR and San Francisco-Oakland, CA Bay Area based performing bass player and band leader.
About Me
Projects include: Negative Press Project (A scalable eight-piece electro-acoustic jazz/indie/post-bop inspired original music collective)
-D/L SEXTET (D/L X) - A related Negative Press Project Group
, ANDREW LION (Andrew Lion's līder|lāder), Blakey's Beat (A repertory sextet celebrating the music of Art Blakey and the Jazz
Messengers), and Telegraph Trio + (a scalable straight-ahead jazz group).
https://andrewlionmusic.com
https://negativepressproject.com
https://envelopmentalmusic.com
My Jazz Story
Jazz and Improvisatory forms of music
offer excitement and risk, while at the
same time a well structured composition
can provide something familiar for an
audience to embrace.
Before I knew what "swing" was, I was
first introduced to the power of the
rhythmic inflection by way of Duke
Ellington Live at Newport 1956 in my
father's record collection.
When I finally purchased my first "jazz"
record, I chose Coltrane's Giant Steps. It
took me no time to relate the power of
that record back to my early exposure.
Since then I have remained vigilant in
study, practice, and performance through
various jazz influenced, jazz adjacent, and
Black American Music/straight ahead
swing/Hard Bop idioms; as well as I n my
own personal listening time.
