Carmen featured in Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival Review
Excerpted from Inaugural Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival Dazzles L.A. Music Revelers By A. Scott Galloway – Photos: Matthew Imaging June 30, 2022 Earlier, singer/songwriter Carmen Lundy made her debut as a leader at The Hollywood Bowl (she’d sung at ‘Playboy’ a few years back as a guest of Terri Lyne Carrington’s “Mosaic Project”). Carmen brought […]
Carmen Lundy featured on Spectrum News 1
As seen on Spectrum News 1 ahead of her performance at the Hollywood Bowl.
CARMEN LUNDY FINDS VALUE IN THE ANCESTORS
As seen in LA Jazz Scene By Dee Dee McNeil October 1, 2022 Carmen Lundy is one of those productive people who is highly creative, gifted and artistic. Born November 1st in Miami, Florida, it didn’t take little Carmen long to discover music tantalized her ears. From day one, there was music in their house […]
JazzIz: Modern Ancestors Review
Carmen Lundy featured on JAZZIZ Backstage Pass: 10 Albums You Need To Know for October 2019 JAZZIZ Backstage Pass Listen to Podcast
Soul Tracks: Carmen Lundy Brings 80s Vibe to Cool New Song
There are few artists whose name garners respect from fans, critics and fellow artists like Carmen Lundy. Her thoughtful, often breathtaking ability to cross genres with her music is the stuff of legend, and she displays that gift again on her newest album, Modern Ancestors, a collection of tunes that honor the jazz greats of […]
The Mercury News: Modern Ancestors is the work of an artist fully in command
A jazz vocalist, songwriter, arranger, bandleader, actor and painter, she’s spent the past two decades carefully constructing just about every facet of her music. Released last month on her Afrasia label, Lundy’s 15th album, “Modern Ancestors,” is the work of an artist fully in command. Focusing on her original songs, she’s unusually adept at evoking […]
London Jazz News: Review of Modern Ancestors
Carmen Lundy treads her own path. Not for her the water-treading predictability of so many jazz singers, forever recycling the songs of 80 years ago. Peter Jones, London Jazz News Read Full Review
SFCV: Carmen Lundy is a Jazz Original
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
Carmen Lundy Makes A Dynamic, Belated Chicago Debut – by Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
December 1, 2017 By Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune How is it possible that a singer of Carmen Lundy’s stature and achievement hadn’t made her Chicago debut as bandleader until Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase? Considering the ambition and expressive breadth of Lundy’s opening-night set, the decadeslong delay seems all the more unfathomable. “It’s a […]