Flutist | Pianist | Composer/Arranger | Educator
Brooklyn Dreaming
Downbeat 4 Stars
Jazz Journal UK 4 Stars
Los Angeles Times 4 1/2 Stars
Jazz Times 4 Stars
Huffington Post Best CD 2016
DOWNBEAT Best CD 2016
Top 25 favorite CD's Scott Yanow
Global Music Awards
Award of Excellence 2011
Gold Medal 2014
Outstanding Achievement 2016
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Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson
has been selected Top Ten Jazz Critics Poll 2024 Cadence Magazine
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Top 10 Essential Releases 2024 Scott Yanow
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Best Jazz Albums in 2024 All About Jazz
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Featured in NYC @ Jazz Congress 2024 for Jukebox Jazz Radio
Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson
has been selected Top Ten Jazz Critics Poll 2024 Cadence Magazine
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Top 10 Essential Releases 2024 Scott Yanow
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Best Jazz Albums in 2024 All About Jazz
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Featured in NYC @ Jazz Congress 2024 for Jukebox Jazz Radio
"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
Brooklyn Dreaming - Best CD's of 2016 Downbeat
Bell's playing is lithe and energetic, her lines unspolling 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 hard-nosed modal lines to graceful swing motifs with a clean, collected assurance." Brian Zimmerman Downbeat 'Editors Pick'
It is impossible not to be seduced by Lori Bell playing the flute.
Such is the mesmerizing power of her playing that she can – and has – turned even The Blues into something magnetic. She exhibits some of the freshest and most daring feats of imagination to such a degree of genius that as a compendium of flute technique she has no rivals at this time. Jazz da Gama
"One of the finest flute virtuoso's of our time" Latin Network
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
Brooklyn Dreaming - Best CD's of 2016 Downbeat
Bell's playing is lithe and energetic, her lines unspolling 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 hard-nosed modal lines to graceful swing motifs with a clean, collected assurance." Brian Zimmerman Downbeat 'Editors Pick'
It is impossible not to be seduced by Lori Bell playing the flute.
Such is the mesmerizing power of her playing that she can – and has – turned even The Blues into something magnetic. She exhibits some of the freshest and most daring feats of imagination to such a degree of genius that as a compendium of flute technique she has no rivals at this time. Jazz da Gama
"One of the finest flute virtuoso's of our time" Latin Network
