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Boyd Lee Dunlop

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After nearly 80 years as a live musician and mainstay at the storied Colored Musicians Club of Buffalo, NY, Boyd Lee Dunlop will release his debut recording, Boyd’s Blues, on December 10, 2011. Boyd’s Blues swings with a divine cadence, the sound of the long-marinated dreams of a self-taught musician who learned to play upon discovering a discarded and broken piano on the streets of Buffalo, NY in the early 1930’s. Hailing from a musical family, Dunlop’s younger brother, famed jazz drummer Frankie Dunlop, recorded over 100 albums with jazz luminaries such as Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and Charles Mingus. Boyd Lee Dunlop was born in 1926 in Winston Salem, NC. Music brought him to Buffalo, NY as a child

Album

The Lake Reflections

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. First Drops of Rain (1:09); 02. America the Peaceful (5:36); 03. The Lake (6:26); 04. From the Creekbed (3:10); 05. Scattered Showers (5:40); 06. Snow on the Water (6:15); 07. Kick the Critic Out (4:21); 08. Sunset Turmoil (5:18). Composizioni di Boyd Lee Dunlop.

Article: Album Review

Boyd Lee Dunlop: The Lake Reflections

Read "The Lake Reflections" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Che ruolo artistico avrebbe avuto Boyd Lee Dunlop se gli eventi della vita non lo avessero tenuto ai margini - e per lungo tempo separato - dal mondo della musica? Non possiamo saperlo ed è inutile chiederselo, resta però il rimpianto per un talento sprecato, come spesso è accaduto nell'universo musicale afro-americano. La vicenda del pianista ...

News: Recording

Boyd Lee Dunlop: Solo Piano

Boyd Lee Dunlop: Solo Piano

Every blue moon, someone like Boyd Lee Dunlop comes along who blows jazz fans' minds. In December 2011, Dunlop, a jazz pianist, was discovered in a Buffalo, N.Y., nursing home. He was profiled on NPR and in newspapers, including The New York Times (go here), and he recorded an album—Boyd's Blues. Then everything came crashing down. ...

Album

Boyd's Blues

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011


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