Being Human by Lynne Arriale Trio

Lynne Arriale Trio

Being Human

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Records
UPC: 0608917357226
Catnr: CR 73572
Release date: 01 March 2024
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Challenge Records

UPC
0608917357226

Catalogue number
CR 73572

Release date
01 March 2024

"... Arriale's melodies sound as innocent and fragile as old children's songs. The pianist always manages to make the sound of the piano sing..."

Pianonews, 01-7-2024

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Being Human, pianist-composer Lynne Arriale’s 17th album as a leader, is her fourth for Challenge Records International. Joining Lynne are bassist Alon Near and drummer Lukasz Zyta in a suite of original compositions that explores life-affirming facets of humankind. Being Human is dedicated to the things that define our better nature, and to those individuals, whether celebrated or unsung, who personify them.

In recent years, Lynne’s compositions and albums have reflected current social issues. Chimes of Freedom (2020) highlights the worldwide immigration crisis and the experiences of refugees who risk everything to find a better life for themselves and their families. The Lights Are Always On (2022) examines the life-changing events wrought by COVID-19. Some compositions are named in honor of heroes, including those who served as caregivers on the front lines of the pandemic and those who defended American democracy

In Being Human, Lynne’s compositions celebrate the ways our lives are enriched by passion, courage, love, persistence, heart, soul, curiosity, faith, and joy. Responding to the negative effects of polarization in society and culture, Lynne created this album as an affirmation of love, hope, and unity. It is a musical inspiration to fully appreciate the incredible potential in each of us, and to live our lives individually and collectively as the best expression of what it means to be human.

“I wrote this suite in response to the division and turmoil in our world. The music focuses on qualities we all share; that define our humanity. I hope this album will be uplifting and convey a sense of unity and optimism. The dedications reflect my admiration for those who I feel personify the traits that inspired the music.” Lynne Arriale

Being Human, das 17. Album der Pianistin und Komponistin Lynne Arriale, ist ihr viertes für Challenge Records International. Neben Lynne spielen der Bassist Alon Near und der Schlagzeuger Lukasz Zyta eine Reihe von Originalkompositionen, die die lebensbejahenden Facetten der Menschheit erforschen. Being Human ist den Dingen gewidmet, die unsere bessere Natur ausmachen, und den gefeierten oder unbesungenen Persönlichkeiten, die sie verkörpern.

In den letzten Jahren haben Lynnes Kompositionen und Alben aktuelle gesellschaftliche Themen reflektiert. Chimes of Freedom (2020) beleuchtet die weltweite Einwanderungskrise und die Erfahrungen von Flüchtlingen, die alles riskieren, um ein besseres Leben für sich und ihre Familien zu finden. The Lights Are Always On (2022) befasst sich mit den lebensverändernden Ereignissen, die durch COVID-19 ausgelöst wurden. Einige Kompositionen sind zu Ehren von Helden benannt, darunter solche, die als Pfleger an der Front der Pandemie dienten und solche, die die amerikanische Demokratie verteidigten.

In Being Human feiert Lynne mit ihren Kompositionen die Art und Weise, wie unser Leben durch Leidenschaft, Mut, Liebe, Ausdauer, Herz, Seele, Neugier, Glauben und Freude bereichert wird. Als Reaktion auf die negativen Auswirkungen der Polarisierung in Gesellschaft und Kultur schuf Lynne dieses Album als Bejahung von Liebe, Hoffnung und Einheit. Es ist eine musikalische Inspiration, das unglaubliche Potenzial in jedem von uns voll zu schätzen und unser Leben individuell und kollektiv als den besten Ausdruck dessen zu leben, was es bedeutet, ein Mensch zu sein.

"Ich habe diese Suite als Antwort auf die Spaltung und den Aufruhr in unserer Welt geschrieben. Die Musik konzentriert sich auf Qualitäten, die wir alle teilen und die unsere Menschlichkeit ausmachen. Ich hoffe, dass dieses Album aufmunternd wirkt und ein Gefühl der Einheit und des Optimismus vermittelt. Die Widmungen spiegeln meine Bewunderung für diejenigen wider, die meiner Meinung nach die Eigenschaften verkörpern, die die Musik inspiriert haben." Lynne Arriale

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Lynne Arriale (piano)

Pianist/composer Lynne Arriale’s career is graced by a love of melody and a joy of musical discovery. Arriale has performed on international concert and festival stages over the past 25 years. The consummate storyteller, she immediately connects with her listeners. JazzTimes wrote, "She achieves a special, deep connection with her audience, and the energy flows both ways. Arriale’s emotional authenticity allows her audience to feel and think along with her… Lynne Arriale’s music lies at the synaptic intersection where brain meets heart, where body meets soul. She is one of jazzdom’s most intensely unique voices." At the core of Arriale’s appeal is her ability to communicate with her band and listeners. "The poet laureate of her generation” (Jazz Police), her performances and recordings with her trio led to comparisons with the great trios of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, yet she has been consistently praised as having a "singular voice" as a pianist, leader, composer, and arranger. "I really can’t compare her to anyone," said recent collaborator and multi-Grammy winner Randy Brecker. "Her music transcends the word ‘jazz’ – it is just pure music." Arriale was the first prize winner of the 1993 International Great American Jazz Piano Competition, and soon launched her touring and recording career. Her 13 CDs as a leader have topped the Jazzweek Radio Charts; Inspiration and Arise reached #1 and Come Together #3, Nuance #4 and were included on numerous "Best Of" lists, including The New Yorker and United Press International. Her tenth trio recording, LIVE (CD/DVD) was named one of UPI’s Best Jazz CDs and among The New Yorker Magazine’s Best CDs of the year. Solo was named one of the top CDs of 2012 by JAZZIZ Magazine, and Convergence was named one of the top 50 CDs of 2011 by JazzTimes. Arriale was #13 and #17 in the piano category for the 2015 and 2016 Downbeat Reader's Poll.
She was selected to substitute for Marian McPartland with the 100 Golden Fingers tour of Japan with iconic jazz pianists Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones, Monty Alexander, Cedar Walton, Kenny Barron, Harold Mabern, Roger Kellaway, Junior Mance and Ray Bryant. Arriale has performed and/or recorded with jazz greats Randy Brecker, George Mraz, Benny Golson, Rufus Reid and Marian McPartland, to name a few. Her international performances on concert and festival stages include the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Montreux, Burghausen, Gilmore, Spoleto Arts, Montreal, Monterey, North Sea, Stuttgart, Pori, San Francisco, Ottawa, Zagreb, Perth, Brisbane, Rouen, Cannes MIDEM, Sardinia, Rochester, Wigan, Poznan, Estoril, Palermo, Inverness, Cork and San Javier. Arriale has toured Brazil, Germany, Austria, Serbia, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, France, Belgium,The Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Australia, Japan, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, China, South Africa and the U.S.
Arriale’s live TV and radio appearances and concert performances include Profile of a Recording Artist, NPR’s Weekend Edition, Jazz Set, Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland, NPR’s Jazz Piano Christmas, CNN/FN Biz, the BBC, Radio France and German National Television.Press features include Billboard, Downbeat, JazzTimes, JAZZIZ, BBC Magazine, The London Times and cover stories for JazzEd, One Way and M Magazines.
A devoted educator and Yamaha artist, Arriale is currently Professor of Jazz Studies and Director of Small Ensembles at The University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
“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” (All About Jazz).

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Alon Near (double bass)

Lukasz Zyta (drums)

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... Arriale's melodies sound as innocent and fragile as old children's songs. The pianist always manages to make the sound of the piano sing...
Pianonews, 01-7-2024

.. The result is exuberant jazz manifestos, which also repeatedly contain very personal moments moments of remembrance. A rousing CD!
Inmusic, 01-7-2024

... This is a musical message of optimism, positive thinking and the healing power of music...
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 02-4-2024

She has long been one of the grande dames of American jazz: Lynne Arriale creates subtle music between folkloristic ballad and modern jazz composition...
Jazzthing, 26-3-2024

... Powerful and life-affirming, Lynne Arriale's trio challenges us to listen inside ourselves and find the good - the best way to do this is, of course, with her music in our ears.
Concerto, 01-6-2024

One of the most impressive pianists in the Bill Evans-inspired realm.
Jazz Weekly, 16-5-2024

...the three- to four-minute paeans are positively therapeutic. (...) Arriale's laser like execution throughout is magnified by the locked-in accompaniment of bassist Alon Near and drummer Lukasz Zyta.
BBC Music Magazine, 01-5-2024

As is true of all of Arriale’s recordings, Being Human is well worth several close listens.
The New York City Jazz Record, 01-5-2024

... Arriale's impressive creative power, as she presents her seventeenth album under her own name with “Being Human”, with her favorite line-up, the classical piano trio...
Jazz'n More 05 06 2024, 01-5-2024

...her music (...) sounds fantastic with or without a message, sparkling piano sounds and an extremely passionate and perfectly attuned trio.
Rootstime, 01-5-2024

Being Human is a collection of thoughtful and thematic compositions by an artist who has grown into an expert doing it.
Wild Mercury Rhythm, 28-4-2024

[Arriale] has released a series of remarkable recordings highlighting and celebrating individual and collective responses to world events.
Jazz Journal, 21-4-2024

In her latest albums, the now veteran pianist has revealed herself as an engaged artist, concerned with the social, civil, and political issues of contemporary society.
Musica Jazz, 19-4-2024

Soft, velvety sounds, the result of a clearly classical-influenced pianism infused with great sensitivity. A performance of great intensity, in which the American pianist demonstrated not only enviable technical abilities but also excellent compositional talent. More than jazz, we could define it as musical poetry. A performance of great intensity, in which the American pianist demonstrated not only enviable technical abilities but also excellent compositional talent. They are indeed small jewels.
Corriere del Ticino, 17-4-2024

Trapped in that too often rebellious web of connections between heart, brain and its vividly emotional lyricism, Arriale’s seventeenth artistic statement serves as a channel towards our hopes, dreams, thoughts, prayers and shared best wishes for a better world.” Being Human sheds a warm light on the range of the pianist’s myriad powers. Arriale and her companions manage to stop the world to see where we are, how and why we got here, and how the hell do we get out of the swamp. Poetic in structure, Being Human resonates with verses and celebratory dystics. In tune with our greatest power, our best angels.
Le Strade del Jazz - Roma, 17-4-2024

with the exciting sounds of The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis. the delicate pianism of Lynne Arriale, the fabulous missi-on of Gregor), _Organ Monk" and Lewis a previously unreleased concert by the legendary Yusel Laren...
Image Hifi 05 06 2024, 16-4-2024

... more freshness and "adventure", the two companions definitely add their own personal touch. ...
musikansich, 14-4-2024

A poetess of the piano’: of the many appellations Lynne Arriale has been given in her work; it is perhaps the one that best fits the great empathy of her music.
Rockerilla, 11-4-2024

... jazzy playing style, here in a trio with bass and drums, combined with a consistently harmonious overall sound...
NaDann, 03-4-2024

without lapsing into mawkishness or self-indulgence; Arriale does it by never losing sight of structure or swing, and never taking six minutes to say something musically that can be said in under three. As a result, virtually every track is a highlight.
CD HotList, 03-4-2024

... amazing piano talent and versatility… she invites us into her music. It’s like falling down a rabbit hole and discovering awesome and unexpected gifts along the way.
Musicalmemoir's Blog, 27-3-2024

... Together with bassist Alon Near and drummer Lukasz Zyta, she celebrates love, hope and unity in eleven instrumental pieces...
Melodiva, 16-3-2024

Lynne Arriale continues to grapple with the world, and uplifts it, with her immense gifts and passion. The pianist-composer has proven herself among the most socially and politically engaged jazz musicians working today. The piano trio is a specific art form honed to heights of mastery by The Bill Evans Trio and Arriale carries on from such lofty standards. You can’t help but sense how far Arriale travels musically to discover the width and depth of human determination and courage in a world ever ready in defiance
Kevernacular, 13-3-2024

... unique voice in the world of jazz piano… beauty always nourished by an unvarnished authenticity.
CultureJazz, 11-3-2024

I remember sitting in Cambridge’s Regattabar, enthralled by the clarity and lyricism of her lines, distinctive yet also simple and accessible.
Isthmus, 11-3-2024

She’s an excellent and engaging pianist. The threesome is a tight-knit unit but, more than that, they sound tremendously crisp, playing cleanly throughout. Each player, as is often the case with piano trios, receives a great deal of space to strut their stuff. Everyone does so — and quite tastefully.
Columbia Day Tribune, 09-3-2024

...enrapturing musical conversation…masterful balances of compositional finesse and lively improvisation.
Shepherd Express, 08-3-2024

virtuosic performances…
JAZZIZ, 06-3-2024

In a sense the deeply meditative music with their one-word titles makes these glorious miniatures seem like vortices of emotion... For this is music that is born of body and soul. The compositions bear the hallmark of a composer who composes not so much with pencil on staved paper, but with the proverbial nerve-endings of the very flesh of her fingers that caress the keys as she plays the music. Her glorious melodic lines lift the black dots off the paper and exhort them to sing and dance and pirouette like Apollo's Angels in the air around you. ...an album with so many heart-on-the sleeve moments that you will find yourself catching your breath in absolute awe of Arriale's introspective artistry...an artist of the first order... ...the album speaks to Arriale's humanity is the fact that it has been inspired by the epiphany that we all belong to the Human Race and if we are to survive we should allow "Love", in directing our humanity, to be the glue that binds us.
That Canadian Magazine, 05-3-2024

I would sum up the 2024 album Lynne Arriale Trio: Being Human with the three words - grace, class and style.
Cosmopolis, 04-3-2024

Being Human might just be the most satisfying piano trio album yet from Lynne Arriale… the trio's telepathic connection showing how easily borders can dissolve when the spirit moves.
Textura, 01-3-2024

“‘I wrote this suite in response to the division and turmoil in our world,’ says Arriale. I wish world leaders would take the time to listen.”
DownBeat, 01-3-2024

The quality of her compositions, the melodic and acute sound, the perfect mastery of the trio format, and the remarkable musicians who have gone above and beyond to deliver their best—madness it would be to overlook this album. This proves that Lynne Arriale is one of the great composers of today. She also knows how to perfectly blend tradition and modernity within the same album, and this is the ultimate proof. Undoubtedly, we have one of the great albums of 2024 here.”
Paris Move, 16-2-2024

Easily the most outstanding album we have heard recently… a very special kind of record that summons all the resources that Arriale has at her disposal, from composition to performance, deep immersion in the language of jazz piano and a trio that allows everything, beat, groove and pulse, to break through and shine. All in all then a very special kind of record that summons all the resources that Arriale has at her disposal, from composition to performance, deep immersion in the language of jazz piano and a trio that allows everything, beat, groove and pulse, to break through and shine.
Marlbank, 21-1-2024