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Lyn Stanley

Discovered in 2010 by world class jazz pianist and legend, Paul Smith, Lyn Stanley entered singing with the world’s most famous accompanist, Paul Smith and his trio, four months after meeting her. Lyn was born in Tacoma Washington, the same birth town as singers Diane Schuur and Janis Paige. Her dad played piano by ear in the style of Erroll Garner, and Lyn was an attentive listener at an early age. She also had a grandfather who was an opera singer and an uncle who sang tenor roles in local theater groups in Long Beach, CA. Lyn Stanley entered the singing world through a side door—ballroom dancing

London With a Twist - Live at Bernie’s

By LYN STANLEY

Label: A.t. Music Llc
Released: 2019
Track listing: Route 66; Pink Cadillac; Loverman; Blue Moon; Let There Be You; You Never Can Tell; Goody Goody; Lover Letters; Bye Bye Blackbird; I’ve Got You Under My Skin; Body and Soul; In the Still of the Night.

Lyn Stanley: London With a Twist - Live at Bernie’s

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Lyn Stanley hits her stride. The Great American Songbook possesses a persistent resonance in our culture. It may be best defined as the Songbook as the popular music of the 1920s through the 1950s: Tin Pan Alley, showtunes and other popular music of the period. This block of songwriting remains a bedrock of jazz. ...

Ten Artists: June 2019

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Polly Gibbons All I Can Do Resonance Records 2019 Polly Gibbons's 2017 Resonance release, Is It Me...? was positively received by All About Jazz and other outlets when it appeared. That recording featured a crack trio augmented with soloists, establishing Gibbons as a sensitive yet muscular interpreter of the American ...

Ten Artists: January 2019

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

I am adopting my “Bailey's Bundle" format as sole vehicle for my music reportage. Moreover, I am sharpening my focus to three segments of the jazz universe, in this order: (1) Jazz Vocals, (2) Archival Releases, and (3) Everything Else. I have changed the title to the more inclusive “Ten Artists," better reflecting how I have ...

Lyn Stanley – The Moonlight Sessions, Volume 2

By LYN STANLEY

Label: A.t. Music Llc
Released: 2017
Track listing: Makin’ Whoopee; The Very Thought of You; That Old Feeling; Summer Knows; Over The Rainbow; How Deep is the Ocean; Angel Eyes; At Seventeen; You’ve Changed; Smile; Love Me or Leave Me; How Insensitive; Since I Fell for You; I’ll Be Seeing You.

The Moonlight Sessions, Volume 1

By LYN STANLEY

Label: A.t. Music Llc
Released: 2017
Track listing: All of Nothing at All; Willow Weep for Me; Moonlight Serenade; My Funny Valentine; Embraceable You; Why Don’t You Do Right; Girl Talk; Crazy; Close Your Eyes; How Insensitive; Break It to Me Gently; In the Wee Small Hours.

C. Michael Bailey’s Best Recordings of 2017

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

This year marks my 20th contributing to AAJ. Twenty years ago, I was 38 years old looking for an outlet for my music writing that had somehow avoided me until I came across an opportunity disguised as a call for articles from one Michael Ricci in jny: Philadelphia. I emailed my review of Art Pepper's San ...

Lyn Stanley: Lyn Stanley – The Moonlight Sessions, Volume 2

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Song Stylist Lyn Stanley completes her Moonlight Sessions with Volume 2. This present offering follows only a few months after the release of her well-received The Moonlight Sessions, Volume 1 (A.T. Music, 2017), capping her project with a collection of carefully selected, well-covered standards, with a couple of surprises. Stanley's three-part creative paradigm, started with Volume ...