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| Lenore Raphael: Women In Jazz Festival at Lincoln Center 9/15 by Ronaldo Oregano ,Jazz Police Lenore Raphael reunites the great trio on her "A Beautiful Friendship" CD for this performance as part of the Diet Coca-Cola Women In Jazz Fstival at Lincoln Center. The festival is a month-long event honoring women who have made great contributions to the field of jazz. Lenore Raphael trio appears on Thursday, September 15, 2005 at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola 60th & Columbus Circle Frederic Rose Hall. Widely recognized as one of the top jazz pianists on the mainstream/bebop scene, Lenore’s jazz career has also included teaching, composing, recording and producing. Lenore was Marian McPartland’s guest on National Public Radio’s award winning Piano Jazz, and named one of Yahoo’s top 100 Contemporary Pianists of 2003. A winner of BET on Jazz Discovery, she has been featured at such major jazz clubs in the New York Metropolitan area as Birdland, Cleopatra’s Needle, The Iridium, Metronome, and national and international festivals such as Panasonic Village Jazz Festival, the East Coast Jazz Festival, International Association for Jazz Education showcase, Cape May Jazz Festival , the S.S.Norway Floating Jazz festival, Jazz Forum Arts summer festival. Lenore has also given “standing room only” concerts that include libraries and cultural centers such as the Barron Art Center in New Jersey; Colorado Springs Conservatory in Colorado; she has sold out performances at the Gainesville Jazz Society in Florida, the Cocoa Beach and Palm Harbor libraries, and in top jazz clubs in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Three CD’s were released on the Swingin’ Fox Label, all of which have been on “heavy play" lists on jazz stations around the world. A fourth CD is scheduled to be released this year on the American Digital Label. Lenore is also a talented composer and has won ASCAP awards for her jazz compositions. Some of her compositions have been recorded by other artists as well. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |