{"id":11341,"date":"2020-03-23T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=11341"},"modified":"2020-03-24T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:05:37","slug":"lynne-arriales-chimes-of-freedom-testifies-to-forsaken-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=11341","title":{"rendered":"Jazz pianist Lynne Arriale’s “Chimes of Freedom” testifies to forsaken humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pianist-composer Lynne Arriale<\/em><\/p>\n

The Lynne Arriale Trio will perform live at The Jazz Showcase in Chicago, on April 29, and at The Dunsmore Room, May 1, in Minneapolis.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review: Lynne Arriale Trio Chimes of Freedom<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(Challenge)<\/p>\n

Milwaukee-born pianist-composer Lynne Arriale’s career roughly parallels her fellow Wisconsin Conservatory of Music graduate and recent Grammy-winner Brian Lynch\u2019s. Yet, while internationally acclaimed, her profile remains lower than Lynch\u2019s. Her 15th<\/sup> album demonstrates she\u2019s as accomplished, in her way, as the trumpeter. Arriale has dedicated herself to the jazz piano trio form, and hers draws comparisons to preeminent trios led by Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett. Yet I hear her primary piano influence is McCoy Tyner, especially in her resounding lyricism and deep-register comping for dramatic effect.<\/p>\n

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And artful drama abounds in this eloquent concept album that declares its seriousness right from the plangent opening minor chord of the classic gospel song “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.” Then, Arriale\u2019s original \u201cThe Dreamers\u201d urgently evokes the uncertain longing of millions of young American Latinx in political limbo.<\/p>\n

Similarly, \u201cThree Million Steps\u201d radiates the resolution of thousands of Southerly refugees fleeing for hopes of freedom at our border. Arriale’s ballad “Lady Liberty” traces the mythical French patriot\u2019s footsteps as freedom’s fighter and messenger, perhaps right to the White House.<\/p>\n

By contrast, “Reunion” bubbles with buoyant Caribbean-style celebration, of separated family members together again. Here we feel the propulsive punch of drummer E.J Strickland, a disciple of Tyner\u2019s famous John Coltrane band mate Elvin Jones. Yet Strickland speaks in his own jubilant voice here.<\/p>\n

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The Lynne Arriale Trio (L-R)” E.J. Strickland, drums; Arriale; Jasper Somsen, bass, producer. All photos courtesy Challenge Records<\/em><\/p>\n

As Lynch did with “best large ensemble jazz album,” The Omni-American Book Club<\/em>,\u00a0 Arriale has unleashed her full social-consciousness in her art. Duos aside, the piano trio is ostensibly the quietest of classic jazz trio combos. Nevertheless, Chimes of Freedom<\/em> might be a trojan horse in the shadows, poised to storm the gates of Grammy at year’s end.<\/p>\n

The title song, by Bob Dylan, and Paul Simon\u2019s “American Song,” both sung by K.J. Denhert, tenderly render portraits of humanity \u2013 Dylan’s magnificent, gritty\u00a0story-song, tolling “for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail\u201d\u2026 and for \u201cevery hung-up person in the whole wide universe\/ and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This review was first published in slightly shorter form in The Shepherd Express<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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