Leni Stern at Dazzle Jazz Club

“Fleet and Lyrical”
says The New Yorker
“One of the World's Most Fully Realized Songwriters and Guitarists”
LA Weekly
Born in Munich, Germany, Leni started playing piano at the age of six and guitar at eleven. After studying film scoring at Berklee College of Music, in 1981, Leni moved to New York to play in a variety of rock and jazz bands. In 1983, she formed a group of her own with Paul Motian on drums and Bill Frisell on guitar. Critics have said her music incorporates “intelligent lyrics and beautifully drawn vignettes” (Washington Post), “crystalline, jazz-meets-blues guitar lines” (Guitar Player), and “thoughtful structure, evocative moods, attention to groove” (San Francisco Bay Guardian). ...

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“Fleet and Lyrical”
says The New Yorker
“One of the World's Most Fully Realized Songwriters and Guitarists”
LA Weekly
Born in Munich, Germany, Leni started playing piano at the age of six and guitar at eleven. After studying film scoring at Berklee College of Music, in 1981, Leni moved to New York to play in a variety of rock and jazz bands. In 1983, she formed a group of her own with Paul Motian on drums and Bill Frisell on guitar. Critics have said her music incorporates “intelligent lyrics and beautifully drawn vignettes” (Washington Post), “crystalline, jazz-meets-blues guitar lines” (Guitar Player), and “thoughtful structure, evocative moods, attention to groove” (San Francisco Bay Guardian).
Five consecutive wins of Gibson’s Female Jazz Guitarist of the Year might make anyone hunker down and focus on going ‘six for six’. But Leni Stern has always defied expectations, and her diverse, 20-year career in music is a textbook example of growth under a self-imposed fire. From the expert instrumentalist, a singer-songwriter emerged, with observations to share from her travels throughout the world. Stern adds: “Why deny the impulse to put words to these experiences? I couldn’t think of a reason.”

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