Flutist, Pianist, Composer/Arranger, Educator

Downbeat ****
Jazz Journal UK ****
Los Angeles Times ****1/2
Jazz Times ****
Huffington Post Best of 2016
Best CD's of 2016 DOWNBEAT

Global Music Awards 
2011 Award of Excellence
2014 Gold Medal
2016 Outstanding Achievement
 photo by Paul Barnett

"Ms. Bell plays with confidence and taste, with a proclivity toward the more subtle means of emotional expression.   Her playing inherently has a many-layered depth that reveals a more meaningful art.  She renders ballads with exceptional sensitivity while bringing wonderful nuances to swing and be-bop, which she plays with power, agility and a natural élan.  Her phrasing, evocative of birds, shows the strong influence of Eric Dolphy, yet is rendered with such purity of tone and range of timbre that it is clearly of a different ornithology."     German Berrellez

"Brooklyn Dreaming" Best in Jazz 2016  Huffington Post

Best Albums of 2016  DOWNBEAT - "Brooklyn Dreaming"

"Brooklyn Dreaming"  Nominated 'Best Jazz Album'
2017 San Diego Music Awards

"Brooklyn Dreaming" Top 25 of best CD's of 2016 Scott Yanow

2016 Global Music Award for Outstanding Achievement  Brooklyn Dreaming
 
"Bell’s playing is lithe and energetic, her lines unspooling with ease. But she’s also an improvisational shapeshifter. On “Times Squared,” she transitions seamlessly between rapidly tongued staccato blasts and relaxed legato sighs. On “Streets Of New York,” she skips from hardnosed modal lines to graceful swing motifs with a clean, collected assurance".   Brian Zimmerman - Downbeat  'Editors Pick' 
​January 2016

"Bell flaunts prodigious chops on both C flute and alto flute
though her pen might be mightier than her sword.  Her originals all reveal a wide harmonic palette, a sophisticated rhythmic sensibility and a refined sense of dynamics, along with an urge to swing". 
Bill Milkowski - Downbeat  March 2016 ****

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Lori Bell is a Pearl Flute Artist

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