Jazz at MOCA Featuring Bryan Lynch
“Jazz at MOCA” is MOCA’s free outdoor concert series in-person on the last Friday of every month. On Friday, Oct. 28, MOCA is pleased to present Grammy Award Winner Brian Lynch. Lynch is as comfortable negotiating the complexities of clave with Afro-Caribbean pioneer Eddie Palmieri as he is swinging through advanced harmony with bebop maestro Phil Woods. An honored graduate of two of the jazz world’s most distinguished academies, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and the Horace Silver Quintet, he has been a valued collaborator with jazz artists such as Benny Golson, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Charles McPherson; Latin music icons as diverse as Hector LaVoe and Lila Downs; and pop luminaries such as Prince. He has released 19 critically acclaimed CDs and toured the world with various ensembles. He is currently a Professor of Jazz Trumpet at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami. His talents have been recognized by top placing in the Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls (#3 Trumpet 2011 Critics Poll); highly rated reviews for his work in Downbeat, Jazziz and Jazz Times; 2005 and 2007 Grammy award nominations, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, and Meet The Composer.
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