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Luke Sellick

Luke Sellick was born and raised in the rich and eclectic musical climate of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Although originally a classical pianist, Luke discovered jazz at a young age and at eleven found himself immersed in the double bass. Home schooled throughout elementary and high school, his passions included art history, wilderness canoeing, and math. His introduction to formal education didn’t come until 2008, when he enrolled in the Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba. By this time, although dreams of National Hockey League stardom were fading fast, Luke’s musical career was gaining momentum

Blended Lineage

By DAVID BIXLER

Label: Red Piano Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Blended Lineage pt 1 Origins Blended Lineage pt 2 Motherland Blended Lineage pt 3 Trenches Blended Lineage pt 4 My Soul Swoons Slowly

Still I Rise

By DERRICK GARDNER

Label: Impact Jazz
Released: 2020
Track listing: Push Come da Shove; Still I Rise; Soulful Brother Gelispie; Melody for Trayvon; Blues a la Burgess; 8 Ball, Side Pocket; Heavens to Murgatroyd!

Luke Sellick / Andrew Renfro: Small Vacation

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

Bassist Luke Sellick says, “I hope this is a record you can enjoy for its musical conception and inventiveness, or just to relax [with] at the end of a long day." It succeeds at this, in part, because the tunes that are presented here are ones that almost everybody has heard, and others are ones that ...

One Lineup, Two Approaches

By JEROME WILSON

These two releases have the same instrumental lineup, a jazz quintet fronted by saxophone and trumpet plus a string quartet. They even use the same trumpet player, Michael Rodriguez. However the two CDs take this formation down different paths. Brian Landrus For Now Blueland 2020 Baritone ...

Charleston Jazz Festival 2020

By MARTIN MCFIE

Various Venues Charleston Jazz Festival Charleston, SC January 23-26, 2020 Jazz Festivals are like people, six years old is still in infancy, but everything has to start somewhere. Historically, the city which gave birth to the Charleston dance craze and was the inspiration for Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, deserves The Charleston ...

Pureum Jin: The Real Blue

By JACK BOWERS

Although alto saxophonist Pureum Jin would no doubt shrug her shoulders and ask “what's the big deal," the fact remains that she is a South Korean woman playing American jazz and doing so in a way that affirms conclusively that the country's inbred art form is not only universal but gender-neutral. On her debut album, the ...

The Sounds of Saxophones

By JEROME WILSON

The saxophone continues to be one of the cornerstone instruments of jazz. Here are three recent recordings that demonstrate different approaches to the use of saxophones in the music. Jordan Pettay First Fruit Outside In Music 2019 Jordan Pettay is a young Julliard graduate who makes her ...

A Conversation with Douye

By LORENS CHUNO

Douye is a seasoned singer whose soulful and delicate approach to jazz vocal has captured the interest of many in the last year. Her chart topping album Daddy Said So features top notch jazz musicians including: Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Benito Gonzalez, Essiet Essiet Okon, Curry Rawls, Zem Audu, Joel Scott, Clayton Cameron, Edwin Livingston, Kiyoshi ...

Christmas EP

By LUKE SELLICK

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Good Christian Friends; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; O Come, O Come Emanuel, Do You Hear What I Hear?; Hark The Herald; Auld Lang Syne