Lyn Stanley

Stanley was born in Tacoma, Washington and entered her recording career in 2013. She has been awarded Female Jazz Vocalist of the Year 2018 by long time Los Angeles/Long Beach jazz radio programmer, Saul Levine. In 2019 Spotify reported Lyn Stanley's music was played in 76 countries with over 300,000 minutes of download or streaming play.[1] Her recording career has generated international recognition as one of today's top jazz vocalists.[2][3] Her father was a hobby jazz pianist while her grandfather, who had emigrated from Bulgaria, was an opera singer.[4] Her music is played on Jazz radio stations worldwide working with high-profile Los Angeles and New York jazz musicians.[5] She began her professional life in advertising, worked as a Fortune 500 marketing executive and a college adjunct professor and instructor in marketing communications. She trained as an International Standard amateur ballroom dancer and won USA Pro/Am Dancesport Championship titles in 2010.[6]

Beginning in 2010, she became interested in singing.[7] After taking singing lessons for a few months, in 2013 she started her singing career with her album Lost in Romance.[8][9][10] Her debut album, produced by Steve Rawlins was an international success.[11] With the release of her second album, Potions [From the 50s], Stanley performed songs composed in the 1950s.[12][13] In October 2015 she released her third album, Interludes in Tokyo, Japan[14][15] and started an American radio campaign in January 2016 for this album. Highly regarded engineers Al Schmitt (21 Grammy Awards) and mastering engineer Bernie Grundman have recorded, mixed, and mastered most of Lyn Stanley's albums. However, in 2019 she engaged Grammy Award-winning engineer, Allen Sides,[16] for both mixing and/or recording her Julie London two-album project, including a direct-cut vinyl recording (see direct to disc below).

On January 15, 2016, a party was held at the La Cicada Club in Los Angeles to celebrate the release of her album Interludes. Annette Warren, at 93, was one of those who performed at the show. With her husband Paul Smith, the jazz pianist best known for his work with Ella Fitzgerald, they encouraged Stanley to give up competitive ballroom DanceSport as a USA amateur champion four years earlier to become a jazz singer.[17]

In December 2016 Stanley announced her next album, entitled The Moonlight Sessions, Volume One and The Moonlight Sessions, Volume Two released in 2017. In April 2017 a three-part story[18] about her recording career and her 2017 albums was released by John Stancavage at Part-Time Audiophile.[19] Stanley announced the release date of May 30, 2017 for The Moonlight Sessions, Volume One and Volume Two in two formats—double vinyl 45RPM—Special Limited Edition using the One-Step pressing process and Super Audio CDs (SACD). This vinyl pressing process was popular in the 1950s before mass production of vinyl records was needed to meet demand. The One Step vinyl album uses the original lacquer to create the Father or Master stamper which then makes the final vinyl records (1-1000 units only) sold to the consumer. The Moonlight Sessions, Volumes One and Two were recorded in February 2017 by Al Schmitt and Steve Genewick. Mixing engineer was Michael Bishop of Five/Four Productions and the album was mastered by Bernie Grundman. Musicians included pianists Mike Garson, Christian Jacob, and Tamir Hendelman; bassist Chuck Berghofer; guitarist John Chiodini; drummers Joe LaBarbera, Bernie Dresel and Ray Brinker. Soloists included Hendrik Meurkens, Rickey Woodard, Chuck Findley, Corky Hale and Carol Robins.

Lyn Stanley has won Best Album and Best New Artist awards by Global Music Awards and Hollywood Music and Film Awards. She also

In 2018, Stanley recorded her sixth album, London Calling: A Toast to Julie London, released in December.[20] Engineers were Steve Genewick for recording and Allen Sides[21] for mixing. No arrangements were used. Rather, chord charts created the road map allowing for freedom to change musical ideas. These impromptu arrangements were created by Lyn Stanley and her musicians (guitarist John Chiodini; pianists Mike Garson and Christian Jacob; drummers/percussionists Luis Conte, Aaron Serfaty, Paul Kreibich, Brad Dutz; bassists Chuck Berghofer (who worked with Julie London) and Michael Valerio. There are 15 Julie London covers and two additional songs Stanley added as bonus tracks. A video about creating the album was filmed.[20][22][23][24][25] This 33.3 RPM album received several review accolades[26][27][28][29][30][31] including Paul Seydor's five-star review in The Absolute Sound.[32]

In January 2019, Stanley recorded her seventh album-a direct to disc,[33] London with a Twist: Live at Bernie's, as a follow up to her Julie London tribute that included London covers and some additional songs London did not record including "Pink Cadillac." This unusual and very challenging "no fixes possible" recording and live mix were engineered by Allen Sides at Bernie Grundman's Mastering Studio in Hollywood. [34] Bernie Grundman mastered the lacquer instantly from the live mix created by Sides. There are over 12 minutes of music on each side with Lyn Stanley performing on each song (with short instrumental interludes) making her one of a handful of solo vocal recording artists to achieve this amount of continuous recording time; typically these albums are instrumental only. To achieve the four songs per vinyl record side, a pause of 3-5 seconds was necessary to create the gap between songs. The listener can hear pages turning and other artifacts typically removed from studio recordings. The band for this album, who coined themselves "Jazz Mavericks," are: John Chiodini (guitar) Mike Lang and Otmaro Ruiz (piano), Chuck Berghofer (bassist), Luis Conte (percussion) and Aaron Serfaty (drums). Reviews for this album position Stanley as one of the top jazz vocalists today.[35][36][37][38]

Lyn Stanley and her Jazz Mavericks performed live in front of an audience at Capitol Recording Studio A on June 1, 2019. A Blu-ray multi-track 5.1 surround sound high definition 1080K video and 192/24 bit stereo audio are in production with a delivery date targeted for alate Spring 2020 release. A holiday album for 2020 is also planned with big band and small group arrangements. This will be Ms. Stanley's 10th recording (one single and nine albums).

In December 2016, Stanley received The Global Music Silver (Outstanding Achievement) Award for Female Vocal and Album for her Interludes album. She was also nominated by Hollywood Media in Music July 2016 Awards for her song on the Interludes album entitled "Whole Lotta Love" in the jazz category.

British publication HiFi Choice featured Stanley in 2018 in the story "The New Gold Standard" by David Niven.[39] Niven states, "People call her a jazz chanteuse with a voice to make you melt, but she's more than that – not only someone with solid audiophile sensibilities, but also a denizen of the mixing desk and on a mission to ensure her music, beyond the live experience, can be enjoyed in the highest quality possible."

In April 2019, radio programmer Saul Levine of Los Angeles-Long Beach Metro Area and largest jazz radio audience, KKJZ-88.1 FM, named her Female Jazz Vocalist of the Year for 2018.[40]

• Lost in Romance (A.T. Music, 2013)
• Potions (From the 50s) (A.T. Music, 2014)
• Interludes (A.T. Music, 2015)[41]
• The Moonlight Sessions, Volume One (A.T. Music, 2017)
• The Moonlight Sessions, Volume Two (A.T. Music, 2017)
• London Calling: A Toast to Julie London (A.T. Music, 2018)
• London with a Twist: Live at Bernie's (A.T. Music, 2019)
• Live At Studio A (A.T. Music LLC 2020)

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• Official website