The Lenore Raphael Trio featuring Guitarist Howard Paul

Critics, jazz hosts and jazz lovers all agree that she is one of the most SWINGING mainstream pianists today. Influenced by Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell and Bill Evans, she has taken these influences and created her own recognizable sound.  Jazz critic John Gilbert has called her “simply one of the best pianists in the jazz mainstream today”…(AllAboutJazz.com)
Lenore had the honor of performing at the tribute to Oscar Peterson in Toronto, Canada where she performed her well known composition. “Blues For O.P.”
She has won ASCAP awards for her original compositions, which appear on her own CDs and other artists’. They have been played on Continental Airlines in-flight jazz stream, and on jazz stations worldwide, including their inclusion into the Jazz At Lincoln Center jazz stream.
Lenore has recorded 7 critically acclaimed CDS on the Swingin’ Fox Music label. Some of her recordings have reached Top 10 airplay and her 2006 recording “Invitation” and 2012 recording “Loverly” were up for Grammy nominations.
Lenore now has her own radio show called “Lenore Raphael’s JazzSpot” on purejazzradio on the internet where she interviews and performs with famed jazz artists and up and coming ones as well. Along the way she has performed and recorded with such greats as Clark Terry, Warren Vache, Howard Alden, Harry Allen, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jack Wilkins and more.
Howard Paul, President/CEO of Benedetto Guitars, Inc. readily acknowledges that he is fortunate to combine his vocation and avocation. A highly respected jazz guitarist who detoured along the way to study political science, serve in the military, and rise in corporate management, his enthusiasm for his company is infectious. Today, he strikes a delicate but exhausting balance between performance at jazz clubs and concert halls, lectures at universities and music schools, collaborations with artist/endorsers, and running the day-to-day business of manufacturing and sales at the 9,000SF Benedetto Guitars’ workshop located on the south side of Savannah, GA.
As a musician, he has performed/recorded with jazz guitar legends including Bucky Pizzarelli, Jimmy Bruno, Howard Alden, Jack Wilkins, Joe Beck, Joe Negri, Frank Vignola, Andreas Oberg and small group performances with bassist Ben Tucker, flutist Ali Ryerson, vibraphonist Chuck Redd, bassist Phil Flannigan, Oliver Nelson, Jr., B3 masters Joey DeFrancesco, Tony Monaco and Doug Carn, and piano legend/Grammy winner Bob James and sax great Tom Scott. He has lectured at Duquesne, University of Southern California, San Diego State University, University of South Carolina, University of Louisiana, Furman, Winthrop, Berklee College of Music, and Musicians Institute. He is a recurring clinician for the National Guitar Workshop, contributing editor to Just Jazz Guitar Magazine, and has twice been a featured artist at The Smithsonian Institutions’ Jazz Cafe, and a jazz clubs including The Jazz Standard, The Jazz Kitchen, Yoshi’s Oakland, The Jazz Corner, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Silos, Merion Inn and Blue Wisp. In 2011 Howard was inducted in the Savannah/Coastal Jazz Hall of Fame.
Lenore Raphael has a love affair with the piano, as demonstrated by the myriad of emotions she is able to evoke in her playing…from a sweetly swinging mode to pure, nonstop bop, Raphael is the personification of swing
…John Gilbert, AllAboutJazz
For more on Lenore Raphael and Howard Paul visit www.lenoreraphael.com and www.howardpaul.com.
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