My first encounter with Lynne Arriale

Ever heard of her play? Well, this is my first encounter. Nice, but colorless, let's say. She sure has learned classic music. I see it clearly from her play. Her tone is quiet and lonely somehow.

I was watching Woomy Schmidt interviewed her. The video is listed here with the title of "An Interview with Jazz Pianist Lynne Arriale (part 1 of 2) " . She said that she was adopted. She could have been lonely in her youth, I guess. And I hear it in her play. Does it? Well, at least it sounded me that way.

Woomy is a quick interviewer. He may sound too hard to be interviewed. But I liked him. He is talking with someone to entertain other people, after all.

Now, Would you like to listen to her play? Here's one:

At his interview, she said that McCoy Tynar is her respected jazz player. Does she sound one? No, I don't think so. Woomy asked her: What makes the great tune?

She replied saying; "A Great tune needs to tell a little story. Just like a short story in literature. Has beginning, middle and end. And one thing that is very important with great tune is having the first idea be completely engaging. In another word, we hear that idea 'n somhow our ears just relates to that. y'know, something universal that idea has touched. Then the big question is what needs to follow. What must be the next phrase. 'know, there are several versions with Beetobens 5th syphony. Well, he rewrote sections. And historians can looked at it saying 'see, the ultimate version we know is the best.'"

"When I'm writing a song often we have one idea and have another one ans, which one feels right idea that needs to follow organically. And again that's very subjective, and there's no books says this is what needs to happen next. But we look up the shape, we look at the idea and answer and an another idea and it takes us to engage a little musical journey."

Right, she is a professional piano player all right.