{"id":16467,"date":"2025-01-07T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=16467"},"modified":"2025-01-08T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:30:13","slug":"trumpet-whiz-brian-lynch-multiplies-his-talents-again-times-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=16467","title":{"rendered":"Trumpet whiz Brian Lynch multiplies his talents again, times seven"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Album review: Brian Lynch — 7 x 7 by 7<\/em> (Hollistic MusicWorks)<\/p>\n

Trumpeter Brian Lynch knows and cherishes jazz history and his jazz story. His achievement is \u201ca place in a lineage,\u201d he comments. He opens his latest album with a warm, lovingly stylish tribute to a formative experience, winning a college jazz contest with his Wisconsin Conservatory of Music ensemble.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIn the Riv\u201d references the Buick Riviera driven by Tony King, the genius educator (I studied with him, too) who led Brian and company long ago to a Notre Dame music competition his ensemble won gloriously.<\/p>\n

One of Brian’s first regular professional gigs was playing as a front line fill-in for touring arists at the Milwaukee Jazz Gallery. I once saw him do a gig at a Milwaukree bar with bop sax giant Sonn Stitt. He would return later join bands led by Horace Silver, Phil Woods, and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.<\/p>\n

The two-time Grammy winner is internationally acclaimed, but another sign of his local loyalty was picking Milwaukee-born saxophonist Greg Handy who absolutely shines throughout.<\/p>\n

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Tenor saxophonist Craig Handy (left ) and leader Brian Lynch in the studio, recording Lynch’s new album, 7 x 7 by 7.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHigh Point of the Hang\u201d turns up the Latin beat, a Lynch specialty, and Handy\u2019s solo deeply digs the pocket while telling a wonderful short-short story. Part of the triplicate concept (seven tunes by seven musicians) is all tunes running seven minutes flat, a feat of recording studio manipulation. This contributes to concise solos throughout. Yet tempos and moods shift tastily, until Lynch takes a deep conceptual and temporal breath with \u201cGreeting on 87th Street,\u201d an ode to his lover. Lynch unfurls ardent tenderness and Handy ups the passion quotient with his tenor\u2019s fiery soulfulness. Only a tenor sax can blaze like this. The other hidden star is pianist Luis Perdomo, who especially delivers late: on \u201cGreeting\u201d his pealing arpeggios and clangorous yet tender chords make the lover believe him.<\/p>\n

Then on the closer, \u201cFinnegan\u2019s Garden,\u201d an ode to Lynch\u2019s pet dog, the pianist\u2019s thick chords feel like their stroking fur then a sinuous melody sings joyously, an alluring sequence where a dog might just howl along.<\/p>\n

Get\u00a07x7by7<\/em>\u00a0at Amazon here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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This review was oriiginally published in The Shepherd Express,<\/em> Here:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/shepherdexpress.com\/music\/album-reviews\/7x7by7-by-brian-lynch\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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