Results for "Brian Lynch"

Modern Big Bands: Christian McBride, Marshal Gilkes, Gerald Wilson, Brian Lynch and More

by Russell Perry
September 29, 2020

Since the early days of jazz, composers, arrangers, and players have sought out large ensembles for their potential for rich expression and vibrant musical color. Even in the heyday of small-group dominated bebop, Dizzy Gillespie formed a big band as soon as he could. To this day, while few bands can hold together as touring units, ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Brian Lynch

September 12, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Brian Lynch's birthday today! Brian Lynch GRAMMY AWARD WINNER; 4 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS; 2017 TRUMPETER OF THE YEAR, RECORD OF THE YEAR (Jazz Journalists Association) “This is a new millennium, and a lot of music has gone down,” Brian Lynch said several years ago. “I think that to be a jazz musician ...

Ralph Peterson & the Messenger Legacy: Onward & Upward

by Paul Rauch
August 8, 2020

Generally speaking, legacy bands are created to preserve the music of an artist. They feature innovative interpretations of an artist's compositions or past performances to share with future generations of listeners. In the case of drummer Ralph Peterson, his ambitious efforts to honor the continuum of his mentor Art Blakey are forward thinking, about a collective ...

Take Five with Markus Rutz

by AAJ Staff
May 18, 2020

Meet Markus Rutz Markus Rutz plays trumpet with bluesy, soulful style and a tone that has been called gorgeous. He composes music from his home base in Chicago, Illinois where he also performs modern jazz. As described by Downbeat's J.D. Considine, with his “big, dark tone and a fluid ease to his phrasing," trumpet player, composer ...

Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble: The New Immigrant Experience

by Jack Bowers
April 3, 2020

Is it mere coincidence, or does the rise in the number of “concept" albums by jazz big bands signal that the trend is here to stay? Trumpeter Brian Lynch won a 2020 Grammy Award for his Journey Through Literature in Music, and there have been other tenet-based enterprises within the past year by Dan Jonas, John ...

Aldo Salvent: Ancestros

by Edward Blanco
March 22, 2020

One of the rising young talents in the jazz world in 2020 is Cuban-born, Miami-based tenor saxophonist Aldo Salvent, who issues his second solo album entitled Ancestros, melding elements of the jazz sound with rhythms of the world, as he pays tribute to the multi-cultural background from which he hails in a musical shout out to ...

Brian Lynch

Born: September 12, 1956

MULTIPLE GRAMMY© AWARD WINNER; 6 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS; JJA (Jazz Journalists Association) TRUMPETER OF THE YEAR & RECORD OF THE YEAR

“This is a new millennium, and a lot of music has gone down,” Brian Lynch said a number of years back. “I think that to be a jazz musician now means drawing on a wider variety of things than 30 or 40 years ago. Not just to play a little bit of this or a little bit of that, but to blend everything together into something that has integrity and sounds good. Not to sound like a pastiche or abruptly shifting styles; but like someone with a lot of range and understanding.”

The Omni-American Book Club / My Journey Through Literature in Music

By Brian Lynch

Label: Hollistic MusicWorks
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD1: Crucible for Crisis; The Struggle Is in Your Name; Affective Affinities; The Trouble with Elysium; Inevitability and Eternity; Tribute to Blue (Mitchell). CD2: Opening Up; Africa My Land; Woody Shaw; The Struggle Is in Your Name (extended version); Woody Shaw (extended version).

Russ Spiegel Organ Group - Wait A Minute!

By Russ Spiegel

Label: RuzzTone Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Wait A Minute Rainy Blues Miami Girl Up the Creek The Serpentine Count Up Unruly Julie A Quick One

Brian Lynch Big Band: The Omni-American Book Club / My Journey Through Literature in Music

by Jack Bowers
November 20, 2019

Aside from being a multi-award-winning trumpeter and composer, Brian Lynch appears to be an avid reader and social arbiter as well. His twenty-third album as leader, a two-CD set whose protracted and austere name, The Omni-American Book Club / My Journey Through Literature in Music, belies its bold and free-hearted nature, is dedicated to a number ...