Pianist/Composer Lynne Arriale garners four nominations for
Nuance: The Bennett Studio Sessions (2009, Motéma Music) from:



First Round Entry in the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Ballot
Best Instrumental Jazz Album
Best Engineered Album, Non Classical
Best Instrumental Composition: Crawfish & Gumbo (Download "Crawfish & Gumbo")
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Wrapped Around Your Finger


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.


The critics agree!



Downbeat: 4 stars. Over the last 15 years, Lynne Arriale has made a case for herself as a top-rank jazz pianist through her recordings. If any doubt existed that she can run with the big boys, this release dispels it. She stands toe-to-toe with trumpeter Randy Brecker in a stunning and affirmative collaboration. Their rapport is lucid, and their spontaneous exchanges offer jewels of invention.

The New York Times: Lynne Arriale's brilliant musicianship and bandstand instincts place her among the top jazz pianists of the day.

The Sunday Times - London: Lynne Arriale is putting the heart back into jazz.

Jazz Improv: Nuance-what an album! Her playing is intense and urgent; important and captivating. The recording quality on this disc, and the way it is mixed is very impressive. Lynne Arriale is a monster of a piano player. She writes beautiful melodies that are memorable... with mindboggling harmonic richness... Nuance is a beautiful album...

Randy Brecker - Trumpet/Flugelhorn - Multi-Grammy Winning Artist: 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.

Bob Blumenthal - Grammy Award Winning Journalist: The real lesson of this eloquent recording, NUANCE, is that Arriale has strength of both conception and feeling that transcends instrumental configuration.

Jazz Police: With Nuance, the full range of human emotion is communicated in one diverse but cohesive set, sparsely majestic, densely frenetic, peaceful, playful, tragic, triumphant. I'm aware of no jazz artist working today who brings a broader spectrum of musical ideas to the connection of mind and heart.

All About Jazz: 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.

The Jazz Breakfast: Pianist Lynne Arriale brings a wider audience to jazz because she values the heart over the head. The CD has been recorded with attention to quality and detail.


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