Lori Bell Quartet at Saville Theater At San Diego City College

Lori Bell Quartet – The Modern Line
The Modern Line is a quartet concept featuring original material and fresh arrangements of compositions by modern jazz legends such as Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw and Bill Evans.
Brooklyn native Lori Bell is a flutist and composer of admirable depth and broad musical sympathies. In 2016 Lori paid tribute to her family and birthplace on her critically acclaimed album Brooklyn Dreaming. “Bell flaunts prodigious chops on flute, though her pen might be mightier than her sword. Her originals all reveal a wide harmonic palette, a sophisticated rhythmic sensibility and a refined sense of dynamics, along with an urge to swing.” Bill Milkowski, Downbeat. Brooklyn Dreaming - Best CD’s of 2016 - Downbeat...

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Lori Bell Quartet – The Modern Line
The Modern Line is a quartet concept featuring original material and fresh arrangements of compositions by modern jazz legends such as Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw and Bill Evans.
Brooklyn native Lori Bell is a flutist and composer of admirable depth and broad musical sympathies. In 2016 Lori paid tribute to her family and birthplace on her critically acclaimed album Brooklyn Dreaming. “Bell flaunts prodigious chops on flute, though her pen might be mightier than her sword. Her originals all reveal a wide harmonic palette, a sophisticated rhythmic sensibility and a refined sense of dynamics, along with an urge to swing.” Bill Milkowski, Downbeat. Brooklyn Dreaming - Best CD’s of 2016 - Downbeat
Bell plays with confidence and taste, with a proclivity toward the more subtle means of emotional expression. Her playing inherently has a many-layered depth that reveals a more meaningful art. She renders ballads with exceptional sensitivity while bringing wonderful nuances to swing and be-bop, which she plays with power, agility and a natural élan. Her phrasing, evocative of birds, shows the strong influence of Eric Dolphy, yet is rendered with such purity of tone and range of timbre that it is clearly of a different ornithology.
Lori Bell Quartet
Best in Jazz 2016 – Huffington Post
Best Albums of 2016 – Downbeat
Top 25 Best Jazz CD’s 2016 – Scott Yanow
Global Music Award 2016 Outstanding Achievement Brooklyn Dreaming

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