Song:Further Arrivals
Album:Unsung Heroes
Trumpeter Brian Lynch was a long time member of Eddie Palmieri's band and he was also in the final edition of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. So it's not surprising his music is a mix of post bop and Latin jazz. He was born Sept. 12, 1956 in Urbana, IL and he grew up in Milwaukee. Lynch has a degree from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. He moved to San Diego and was in Charles McPherson's band. Then Lynch moved to New York in 1981. He played with Bill Kirchner, Horace Silver and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra. At the same time, he got into the Latin scene and he was in Hector LaVoe's band for four years. Lynch began working with Eddie Palmieri in 1987 and he joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1988. And he made his recording debut as a leader in 1986. In the 90s he toured with Phil Woods. And he became Palmieri's musical director. Lynch recorded as a leader for Criss Cross and Sharp Nine. In 2010, he started his own label Holistic MusicWorks. Unsung Heroes was the first album on his new label. Lynch says the album is a tribute to trumpeters who were great but aren't as well known as they should be. Hence the title Unsung Heroes. Though Further Arrivals is an original composition, most of the songs were written by those Unsung Heroes like Joe Gordon, Tommy Turrentine, Charles Tolliver and Louis Smith. The band is Vincent Herring on alto sax, Alex Hoffman on tenor sax, Rob Schneiderman on piano, David Wong on bass, Pete Van Nostrand on drums and Vicente "Little Johnny" Rivero on congas. Lynch was so pleased with the album that he released a second Unsung Heroes in 2013. Lynch's latest CD Madera Latino: A Latin Jazz Interpretation on the Music of Woody Shaw was released in 2016. He regularly plays New York clubs and sometimes tours. Here's Brian Lynch performing Further Arrivals in the recording studio 2010.
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