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Lynne Arriale has captured the imaginations of jazz and mainstream music lovers with her outstanding CD and DVD recordings and performances. She has been critically acclaimed as having a ‘singular voice’ as a pianist, leader, composer, arranger and for “putting the heart back into jazz” (London Times). Arriale’s consistently excellent recordings have topped every notable jazz chart. With back to back #1 Jazz Week radio hits, a #17 debut on Billboard’s Jazz Chart, the top ten “Best Of” lists for The New Yorker, United Press International and The German Record Critics Association, Arriale has earned her place among elite international jazz artists. Further evidence of her status includes her being featured on the PBS nationally televised program, Profile of a Recording Artist, and on multiple NPR programs including Weekend Edition, Jazz Set, and Piano Jazz with Marion McPartland.
Arriale’s current release presents an extraordinary new lineup of iconic musicians who joined her on her CD/DVD, NUANCE, The Bennett Studio Sessions, which has received wide critical acclaim, including four stars in Downbeat Magazine and an in-depth feature. In addition to Arriale as leader/composer/arranger, the remarkable band features jazz legend George Mraz on bass; Anthony Pinciotti on drums, whose work with James Moody and John Abercrombie has received high critical praise; and the great All-Star, Randy Brecker on trumpet / flugelhorn. The project was recorded at the multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning BENNETT STUDIOS, and will include video documentation of behind the scenes footage of the CD recording, a bonus DVD program of a live, private, “in-studio” audience concert, and up close and personal interviews with each artist. This Motéma Music release features Arriale’s compelling new originals, as well as her innovative reinventions of pop classics, jazz and world music selections.
NUANCE was chosen as CD of the Month in the three top German audio magazines.
Arriale’s previous release, LIVE, (Motéma), recorded by BR-TV at Germany’s oldest and most prestigious jazz event, The Burghausen Jazz Festival, won the 2007 German Record Critics Award for best jazz CD/DVD recording. She has toured Japan with the legendary “100 Golden Fingers”group, a bill Lynne shared with jazz legends Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, Cedar Walton, Ray Bryant, Junior Mance, Harold Mabern, Roger Kellaway and Monty Alexander. In 1993 she earned first place at Jacksonville’s prestigious Great American Piano Competition. Arriale continues to perform such internationally prestigious venues as The Spoleto Arts Festival, Ireland’s Cork Jazz Festival, The Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival, the Burghausen and Stuttgart Jazz Festivals, The Montreal Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, The Folly Theater, The Gilmore Festival, The Jacksonville Jazz Festival, The San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival and numerous other festivals, concerts and clubs throughout Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania, Norway, The Czech Republic, Ireland, the UK and Australia.
Over the past few years, Arriale has performed with legendary saxophonist, Benny Golson, Grammy winner, trumpet/flugelhorn player, Randy Brecker, jazz icon, bassist George Mraz, Roy Hargrove, Rufus Reid, Buster Williams and Eddie Henderson.
Deeply committed to jazz education, Lynne Arriale is currently Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano and Director of Small Ensembles at The University of North Florida. She also conducts master classes, clinics and workshops internationally for professionals, students and communities at large. Arriale will have the cover story in an upcoming edition of JazzEd Magazine.
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“I can’t really compare her to anyone. She has a really unique place in the music world. Her music transcends the word ‘jazz’ – it is just pure music. It’s all about nuance with Lynne.”
Randy Brecker – Trumpet/Flugelhorn – Multi-Grammy Winning Artist
“The real lesson of this eloquent recording, NUANCE, is that Arriale has strength of both conception and feeling that
transcends instrumental configuration.”
Bob Blumenthal – Grammy Award Winning Journalist
Lynne Arriale’s remarkable career is graced by a rare commitment to authenticity and vulnerability defined by careful craft and high artistic standards. It is precisely this willingness to remain so emotionally exposed that makes her performances so accessible to music lovers of all kinds. And what diverse and intriguing music it is. Arriale celebrates tunes from all over the musical map. All (her) music dazzles without ever being showy – the passion of the playing and the joy of invention is a story shared with the audience (All About Jazz).
NUANCE marks a pivotal turning point in Arriale’s distinctive career and launches her into the upper echelon of the jazz elite. As a pianist, leader, composer and arranger, she is without equal in her ability to convey a broad palette of emotional range, muscle, intimacy and depth in any format she chooses. Breaking new ground with the adventurous Sting hit, Wrapped Around Your Finger, she establishes its gravitational center in the first four notes. The melody, simply stated, is immediately recognizable. But by the chorus, an explosion of power and dynamic intensity is palpable evidence of Arriale’s indelible style and artistic generosity with her new band mates, icons Randy Brecker (tr,flh), George Mraz (bass) and heralded newcomer, Anthony Pinciotti (dr). Her prodigious leadership is revealed by the tune’s end, as she shapes the group dynamic from soaring virtuosity to the tune’s original core. Playing with Randy, George and Anthony was a magical experience from the first note, because each musician was totally open to the organic flow of where the music needed to go, notes Lynne. The ecstatic audience response seen on the DVD is clear evidence that this masterful artist puts as much of herself into arranging a tune as in writing a new one. She achieves a special, deep connection with her audience, and the energy flows both ways (JazzTimes). Says Arriale, It’s all about reaching people. That is ultimately why we play.
The addition of Brecker as a fourth group member provides her a melodic and harmonic partner and the freedom to explore a wider range of musical possibilities. The result is self evident on her sumptuous, incandescent arrangement of I Hear A Rhapsody, a daring and powerful reinvention of A Night in Tunisia, and the offbeat, highly imaginative rhythmic freedom of Monk’s I Mean You, all in stark contrast to the penetrating Ballad of The Sad Young Men with the haunting chill of Harmon muted trumpet. Record Report writes, she picks recognizable songs from pop world, the bop tradition and pounces on them, tearing them down and teasing out new melodies.
Arriale leads the group into the essence of her muse, extrapolating six sublime originals. I was going for some very specific things in the music, she explains, and I was thrilled that Randy, George and Anthony were so willing to do whatever it took to find them. Using a large canvas of ideas, she creates memorable melodies that bear the mark of new standards. Steadfastly independent in her conceptual development, she combines ‘feel good’ rhythms and melodies, creating her own sassy brew, while merging the inspiration of Monk and Calypso on Crawfish and Gumbo, via both the polytonality…(of) the melody… and the rhythmic accent that begins each phrase and remains central to the solo (Bob Blumenthal),
On Yada Yada Yada, there’s a cutting edge to the intentionally unsettled blues that gives each band member an opportunity to inject their own brand of humor within tricky rhythms and dissonant phrasings. Longing and Carry On employ supple melodies that find her little motives growing into deliberate declarations as she builds her improvisations (DownBeat). La Noche is haunting and mysterious as this gorgeous, sultry melody evokes a steamy night, city streets, and the elusive aura of romance. And, as if allowing the listener an opportunity to assimilate all the emotions of this compelling musical journey, Arriale makes her final offering, A Gentle Soul, so deceptively simple and familiar in its Americana style, it feels like a prayer.
Throughout, Arriale is sonically and visually gorgeous, revealing reverence for her partners and their extraordinary musical gifts. Each of them ‘gives it up’ to her and her subtle, yet decisive leadership, as she coaxes the ‘nuance’ out of every note, space, line, key and phrase with a confident nod, smile or look that is the essence of the deep, unspoken, yet poignant musical conversation at its absolute best among these great communicators. Arriale adds, I love that we did a studio produced CD and a separate DVD, with a live studio audience, which is very rare. Listeners experience the music, and then feel an ‘up close and personal’ connection to the band and the intimacy of the communication that really makes the music happen. The audience plays an essential role in our group dynamic that further inspires our level of communication.
Hear it, see it and enjoy behind the scenes excitement on The Bennett Studio Sessions bonus DVD, where you can ‘Meet The Artists’ as they reveal personal insights on their musical meeting at this groundbreaking, multimedia recording, sure to become a classic.
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Arriale’s brilliant musicianship and bandstand instincts place her among the top jazz pianists of the day.
THE TIMES, London – She belongs among the poets. Truly distinctive, her improvisations weave a seductive combination of lyricism and muscle…essential listening.
DOWNBEAT – A singular voice as a pianist and leader … a powerhouse. Haunting, gorgeous - she has a knack for finding a song’s heart.
JAZZ TIMES – She achieves a special, deep connection with her audience, and the energy flows both ways. Arriale’s emotional authenticity allows her audience to feel and think along with her.
JAZZIZ – Stunning piano work. Few recordings touch the soul. Smart, elegant, and muscular, her expert technique never dilutes the music’s emotional impact.
JAZZ IMPROV – This sound comes straight from the spirit. Arriale displays a devotion to melodic and harmonic nuances many artists ignore. She holds the audience spellbound.
L.A. WEEKLY – A great organic pianist and composer whose beautiful and muscular playing ranks with Mehldau and Bill Evans.
BILLBOARD, #17 Debut – Arriale is a rarity among pianists today, commanding airplay and growing media attention with her recordings.
WASHINGTON POST – Arriale exerts a strong hold on the listener long after the last note has sounded.
JAZZWEEK – Arriale pinpoints a song’s power, majesty, and soul simultaneously.
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL / #1 Best CD – Her newest and perhaps finest work filled with sparkling clarity that graces her music.
THE BOSTON GLOBE – She and her musicians seemed to be inventing out of a shared metabolism.
ROCHESTER CITY NEWS – Arriale is among the finest pianists and composers
playing today. The beautifully filmed DVD may be the wave of the future.
CD REVIEW – She’s got fingers of gold!
LOS ANGELES TIMES – A superb talent with an imaginative gift for improvisation, completely at one with the stream of ideas that flow through her fingers…distinct evidence of a major talent.
NEW YORK POST – When the last hushed note finally was played, the applause in the room was striking. The reaction Arriale elicited was testimony to her ability to reach people.
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE – A new star shines on the jazz firmament. An exceptional talent, Arriale’s luminous tone, superlative melodic flair and musical vision inform the creative surprise of her work and miraculous flow of ideas.
HARTFORD COURANT REVIEW – Pianist Arriale is a poet with soul. A heady mix of grit and gravitas, free-flowing lines, implied melodic phrases which unfold with logical organic sense, sounding deeply moving and steeped in clarity and eloquence.
THE TOLEDO BLADE – Arriale plays from the heart striking a great balance between fury and sensitivity for a truly gorgeous sound. This is top shelf all the way.
JAZZ VIEWS – She delves beneath the melody’s surface into its inner core. Each note has a life and purpose all its own. Inspirational and emotionally charged, she is one of the true modern day poets of the piano.
ALL ABOUT JAZZ – Quietly, brilliantly, Arriale wows audiences by focusing on elegant simplicity belying greater skill. She celebrates tunes from all over the musical map and is a composer of great talent. This music dazzles.
Lynne Arriale offers an extensive variety of master classes.
“Can you really teach jazz? In the space of three hours,
Arriale laid my mind to rest. She possesses that rare gift of reducing complex and intangible issues to inspirational basics.” -The London Times