NYT: Music Picks

Cover Art - Carmen Lundy - Modern Ancestors

Lundy established herself in the early 1980s as a talented multi-instrumentalist, restlessly inventive composer and husky-voiced singer ready to pick up the mantle from the likes of Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan. She never became a household name on that level, but she remains one of the most respected jazz voices of her generation. At […]

SFCV: Carmen Lundy is a Jazz Original

Carmen Lundy at SFJAZZ | Credit: Don Dixon

Describing Carmen Lundy as a timeless artist isn’t inaccurate, but it’s more precise to say that she’s both a throwback and a harbinger of jazz’s future. Andrew Gilbert, SFCV Read Full Article on SFCV

2016 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Awarded to Carmen Lundy

The 2016 Lifetime Achievement in Jazz  has been awarded to Carmen Lundy by the prestigious organization Black Women In Jazz & The Arts.  The Gala Awards Ceremony will be held in Atlanta on April 10th, 2016.  Other Honorees include Cicely Tyson, Freda Payne and Dr. Synthia Saint James for their outstanding body of work. For more information about the Event […]

Soul To Soul among DOWNBEAT’S Best Albums of 2015

Carmen Lundy - soul to Soul Cover art

Soul To Soul is among the Best Albums of 2015 by Downbeat Magazine!  The list comes out in January 2016 and includes the best Jazz releases of 2015 which were reviewed from January 2015 – January 2016.  The 4 star review can be seen in the Reviews section of the Press page.