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Art Lillard is a musician with many gifts. In each of his musical roles - drummer, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator - he shares with us his unique and refreshing contribution to our musical culture.
The bands described below have performed at nightclubs, church auditoriums, and dance venues, as well as at various public libraries and senior residences in the greater New York City area.
Art Lillard has been leading his own jazz big band, Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band, since 1987, playing in many New York area nightclubs and concert spaces. In 1995 he produced “First Flight,” a recording of this sixteen-piece band with vocals, featuring ten of his own compositions. The band’s first compact disc recording, “Reasons to be Thankful,” another vibrant compilation of originals, was released on the Summit Records label in 2006. “Certain Relationships,” a collection of standards and originals, was released on Summit in 2015. Sound clips can be found here: Certain Relationships and here: Reasons to be Thankful . Videos are here: Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band. The band's repertoire features a variety of styles, including bebop, Latin jazz, blues, and numbers which defy category altogether. Whatever the style, the music swings. The Heavenly Band enjoys a special relationship with Brooklyn’s Spoke the Hub Dancing, regularly providing live dance music for its community events.
New Releases By Alliance, Judith Owen, Noel Preminger and Rob Garcia Present the Hildegard Project, Celebrating Shirley Horn & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Jazz At The Ballroom, Alliance, Judith Owen and Kari van der Kloot plus Noah Preminger & Rob Garcia explore the music of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th Century abbess and mystic, with birthday shoutouts to Shirley Horn, Connie Crothers, Andrea Brachfeld, Rebecca Martin, Tawanda and Liz Terrell, among others. Thanks ...
Certain Relationships
By Art Lillard
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Evidence / Just You, Just Me; Carolina Shout; Heavenly; Happy Blues; Just Friends; You Bluesed Me; Swing Trane; The Girl from Ipanema; God Bless the Child; Eleanor’s Place; Brusheeze; Let’s Get Lost; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; Boogie Woogie Stomp; Pennies from Heaven.
Art Lillard's On Time Trio at Sugarcane, Brooklyn
by Tyran Grillo
Art Lillard's On Time Trio Sugarcane Brooklyn, NY June 24, 2015 Attend jazz performances in a big city like New York long enough, and you're liable to realize how often the genre serves as a background to social activities. By the same token, music which isn't always fully acknowledged can peek ...
Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band: Certain Relationships
by Jack Bowers
Drummer Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band continues to spread sunshine and happiness on Certain Relationships, an album recorded in three sessions spanning the half-dozen years between 2005-2011. Of the fifteen selections, nine are vocals --by Pete McGuinness, Hilary Gardner, Andrea Wolper, Mary Foster Conklin or Dominique Eade. In Lillard's optimistic eyes, even the blues are gladsome ...
Reasons to Be Thankful
By Art Lillard
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Bluez Organ Man; The Fast Track; Swingin’ the Blues; Justice Waiting; Conclusion Jump; Heavenly; Nonchalant; Incognito; Biznes Changes; Finding Our Own Way; You Can’t Win Blues; Dreamscape / Perfect World; Reasons to Be Thankful.
The September Concert: The Heart Of Jazz For 9/11- Now In Its 10th Year
The September Concert: The Heart of Jazz for 9/11- now in its 10th Year. On Thursday, September 11, 40 of NYC’s top jazz artists will meet at Somethin' Jazz Club, 212 E 52nd St. NYC from 7pm - 1am, to play their take on various facets of that wretched day & its aftermath. They’ll be playing ...
Art Lillard's Heavenly Band: Reasons to Be Thankful
by Jack Bowers
Although drummer Art Lillard's Heavenly Band makes its home about as far from heaven as one could plausibly roam--New York City, to be precise--the music it produces on Reasons to Be Thankful (recorded in 2000 and released six years later) evokes at times an empyrean vibe, thanks in part to blissful arrangements by Lillard and guitarist ...
Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band at Iridium on August 10
With guest sax soloist Bob Mover Iridium 1650 Broadway @ 51st Street New York, NY 212-582-2121 Tuesday, August 10 Sets at 8:00 and 10:00 P.M. Tickets: $25 About Art Lillard Art Lillard is a musician with many gifts. In each of his musical roles--drummer, composer, arranger and bandleader--he shares with us his ...
Reasons to be Thankful
By Art Lillard
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Bluez Organ Man; The Fast Track; Swingin
