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Lynne Arriale
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“Lynne Arriale’s brilliant musicianship and bandstand instincts place her among the top jazz pianists of the day.”
— The New York Times
LYNNE ARRIALE is one of the finest Jazz pianists out on the loose right now. Arriale blends thoughtfully sculpted original tunes with an ingenious sprinkling of cover versions. As ever, her delicate touch and unabashed love of melodic lines turns them into her own private property. Her shaping hands value complete statements over momentary flourishes. Arriale's music is highly melodic and suffused with concern for structured development. Her emotional range extends from beautifully played ballads, on which it is possible to savor the pianist's exquisite touch and sense of note placement, to almost euphoric Latin pieces and uncompromisingly driven up-tempo performances.
This will be Arriale’s 4th season to perform for our Gainesville audiences!
Lynne Arriale | Alone Together
from the Lynne Arriale Trio Live CD/DVD set, recorded live at the Burghausen Jazz Festival, Germany.Lynne Arriale | Frevo
recorded live at the Stuttgart, Germany Jazz OpenLynne Arriale | Blackbird
recorded live at the Stuttgart, Germany Jazz Open
Meet Lynne Arriale
Lynne’s affinity for music and specifically the piano was evident early on, but well outside a jazz context. Adopted as an infant, Arriale grew up in Milwaukee. She discovered the keyboard at age 3 when given a plastic toy piano, and “never stopped.” Throughout her school and college years, she studied classical music, earning a master’s degree before turning to jazz. “I may have heard an hour of it before that, and I didn’t get it,” she recently told Jazz Times. “But I didn’t know it was improvised music. I didn’t have a clue.” Later she learned that her biological mother was a jazz vocalist—and perhaps there is something to heredity here, given Lynne’s reverence for songful melodies.
Selected to tour Japan with the acclaimed 100 Golden Fingers ensemble in 1991, Lynne performed with jazz legends Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, Harold Mabern, Junior Mance, Monty Alexander, Roger Kellaway, Ray Bryant, and Cedar Walton. She then went on to win the 1993 Great American Piano Competition, and soon launched her long-term touring and recording collaboration with bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Steve Davis. Her focus on the piano trio led to comparisons with the great trios of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, yet she has been consistently praised as having a “singular voice” as a pianist, leader, composer, and arranger. “I really can’t compare her to anyone,” said recent collaborator and multi-Grammy winner Randy Brecker. “Her music transcends the word ‘jazz’ – it is just pure music.”
The spirit of reinvention has also characterized Lynne’s career as well as her music. After ten acclaimed recordings with her trio, she looked for a new direction for her music, finding inspiration writing for a new ensemble featuring trumpeter Randy Brecker, bassist George Mraz and drummer Anthony Pinciotti. Nuance (Motema Music, 2009) did not leave trademark Arriale devotion to melody and accessibility behind, yet the arrangements were far more assertive, the shadings bolder, the improvisations crossing into more distant territories than ever before. And now with Convergence (her 12th recording as leader), Lynne continues that freer trajectory, combining originals and reimagined covers, Middle-eastern, Celtic, Americana, pop and rock influences, further expanding the emotional palette with Bill McHenry on tenor sax, Omer Avital on bass and oud, and Anthony Pinciotti on drums and percussion.
The Lynne Arriale Trio (and now, her Quartet) has appeared at major festivals throughout the world, including the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center, The Gilmore Piano Festival, Cannes MIDEM, Spoleto Arts, Montreux, Montreal, Monterey, and North Sea, Burghausen, Stuttgart, Sardinia, Pori, San Francisco, Ottawa, Rochester, Portugal’s Estoril, Zagreb, Norway’s Silda, and Australia’s Perth and Brisbane Jazz Festivals. She has performed at Jazz At Lincoln Center and recently in South Africa with full symphony orchestra.
Arriale’s recordings have topped numerous “Best Of” lists, including The New Yorker, United Press International, and The German Record Critics Association. Lynne she has been featured on the PBS Profile of a Recording Artist and on multiple NPR programs, including Weekend Edition, Jazz Set, and Piano Jazz with Marion McPartland; and in Billboard, Downbeat, JazzTimes, (May 2011 feature), JAZZIZ, BBC Magazine, and the London Times; and has been featured in cover stories for JazzEd, One Way and M Magazines. Her live media appearances include CNN/FN’ Biz, NPR’s Jazz Piano Christmas – Live from The Kennedy Center, and radio/TV interviews throughout the U.S., U.K., and Europe, including the BBC, Radio France and German National Television. Lynne was recently awarded the SESAC National Performance Award (comparable to BMI and ASCAP).
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