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Thursday Night Jazz: Lynn Speakman Quintet “all About That Bass” at City Of Asylum @ Alphabet City

Where

City Of Asylum @ Alphabet City
40 W North Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA
Map
412-435-1110

Thursday Night Jazz: Lynn Speakman Quintet “all About That Bass” at City Of Asylum @ Alphabet City

When

Thu, November 21, 2024
7:00 pm

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Musicians

Lynn Speakman
saxophone, alto
James Moore
trumpet
Paul Thompson
bass, acoustic

About

In this Thursday Night Jazz performance, we’re all about that bass. City of Asylum welcomes the Lynn Speakman quintet for a show featuring compositions written by bass players, for bass players, as well as some of Lynn’s own compositions that feature the bass or were inspired by a bass player. The bass is the heartbeat of any band but is not often highlighted as such. To counter this, many of these compositions assign the melody to the bass player, where it is doubled by horns. On shining the spotlight on the bass, Lynn says “As a horn player, I think it is really fun to play melodies in unison with bass players, and as a composer I often write specific lines and rhythms for the bass that integrate it into the melody in a unique way.”


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