LENORE RAPHAEL (PIANIST)

Jazz pianist Lenore Raphael has performed all over the world in such prestigious venues as Jazz At Lincoln Center in the Diet Coke Women In Jazz Festival, and then for an extended week-long stay at Dizzy's Club there. She has also performed in concert at The East Coast Jazz Festival, Jazz In The Sangres, Birdland (NYC), Steinway Jazz Showcase in Scottsdale, AZ, in Gainesville, Florida for the Jazz Society, Florida Atlantic University, Dazzles (Denver), Twins(Washington DC), The Jazz Cruise on the S.S. Oosterdam, and many more. In 2007,she performs at the Kitano (NYC),she opens for Ed Shaunessy and the Night Show All-Stars at East Tennessee State University Tri-Cities Jazz Festival, in concert at Florida Atlantic University, with a quartet including Dr. David Champouillon (head of the ETSU jazz department)at Arturo Sandoval's Jazz Club in Miami, at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala Florida, for the Sarasota jazz society and many more.
Lenore Raphael is also an excellent jazz clinician and educator. She studied piano with Barry Harris and then with Mike Longo and culled her learning experiences into teaching jazz piano, giving lectures and workshops to high school and college students.
She has done highly praised workshops as an Outreach Artist for the IAJE (International Association for Jazz Education) at the Orange County Performing Arts Center (Costa Mesa, CA), Louis Palmer HS, East High, Denver School of the Arts, Colorado Springs Conservatory, Florida Atlantic University, Arapahoe HS (Colorado), The New School in NYC, Montclair State College, and more.
She was also an adjudicator at the East Coast Jazz fest and the ITG Trumpet competition with co-judges Terrell Stafford and Marvin Stamm.
She has been newly appointed "Artistic Director" at St. Michael's Church & Parish House in NYC for a monthly series of jazz concerts.

Lenore has three other albums on the Swingin' Fox label...Reflections (2000)recorded with Pat O'Leary on bass and Rudy Lawlessm, drums, Wingin' It (2002) with Mike Bocchicchio on bass and Roger King Jr on drums, A Beautiful Friendship (2005) with Hilliard Greene on bass and Rudy Lawless on drums.
With heavy radio play (15 weeks on top 10 on WGBH in Boston) and top 7 on XM Satellite radio (Maxx Myrick's Real Jazz on XM 70)these albums have been favorites with bebop and mainstream jazz trio fans.
Selling heavily in Japan, Lenore has now gotten notice in that country.
Along the way she has performed with such artists as Marlene VerPlanck, John Pizzarelli, Harry Allen , Joe Cohn, Arnie Lawrence, Clark Terry, Al Grey, and many more. She continues to lead her own trio, travel, teach and compose.

LENORE RAPHAEL - THE WHOLE TRUTH (2006)

A rare re-issue collection of great jazz originals and one standard by one of the top, swingin'est pianists in the mainstream/bebop genre accompanied by a quartet of world-renowned musicians, covering Latin, bebop, ballads and blues

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LENORE RAPHAEL - A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP (2005)

Hard swinging post bop uptempos and unforgettable, haunting ballads make this CD a treasure. Lenore Raphael's tremendous technique has reached new heights of emotion and pure joy

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