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Lola Danza

Exquisite, Unique, Extraordinary, Honest and Passionate are the ways to describe Lola Danza as a vocalist and composer. Ms. Danza’s music is innovative and the result is the creation of a new idiom in music. She infuses beautiful flowing melodies and creative improvised lines with effortless mastery. With her four-octave range and vast array of vocal technique, Ms. Danza’s voice is rich, full and resonate. Lola’s music reveals a special connection to her soul that cultivates mutual inspiration between the musicians and enchants the audience.

Lola’s music and compositions encompass myriad musical styles that span the world: from Asia to Latin America and including the influences of classical, jazz, contemporary American, gypsy, folk, and Flamenco music. Written with intensity and honesty, the songs are spiritual, her lyrics sheer poetry filled with insight that everyone can relate to and understand. The music evokes images of impressionistic and abstract paintings rich in texture and colour.

In 1997 Lola came to Berklee College of Music on scholarship, graduating with a bachelors degree in Vocal Jazz Performance in 2001. Lola has opened her own music school where she teaches and has been known to “Work Miracles”, said one student.

Ms. Danza has performed with world renown jazz artists such as Steve Kuhn,Mat Maneri, Ben Monder, Bob Moses, John Lockwood, Sheila Jordan, Kevin Mahogany, and Leni Stern.

Lola Danza; Recording Artist, Performer, Composer and Teacher.

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Lola Danza on her Evolver Label and Evolver Fest

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Event Alert! Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 at 8 pm at the Roulette. Special guests include Matthew Shipp, Fung Chern Hwei, George Spanos' Quartet, Lola Danza “Korean Shaman Rites" and Ben Stapp: Myrrha's Red Book Act II will perform their latest works. About Lola Danza: Exquisite, Unique, Extraordinary, Honest and Passionate are the ways to describe Lola Danza as a vocalist and composer. Ms. Danza's music is innovative and the result is the creation of a new ...

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Lola Danza: Life of Luxury

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Singer/composer Lola Danza has a pan-cultural and artistic vision expanding well beyond the traditional singer's role as performer and interpreter, though these facets do exist large in her art. The singer began a personal trend on Vision Quest (Evolver, 2005) employing a rhythm section of only two bassists. This format, with an occasional splash added by brass or reeds, produced a free, three- dimensional space within which to sing. Danza's beyond the avant-garde Live Free (Evolver, 2009) ...

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Album Review

Lola Danza: The Island

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Vocalist Lola Danza has always been an original thinker, but that doesn't get you very far in a field crowded with people fitting that description. What makes Danza stand out is her strength of vision and steadfast commitment to following her muse, no matter how non-commercial it may be. With Janya (Evolver, 2011), Danza and her fellow female band mates explored Korean-influenced avant-garde avenues of expression, creating far-reaching fantasies that could alternately fascinate or frighten. On The Island, Danza takes ...

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Album Review

Lola Danza: The Island

Read "The Island" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Singer/composer Lola Danza is not a multicultural artistic presence, she is a pan-cultural artistic presence. This is fully exploited on her ensemble recording, Janya (Evolver, 2011). Her singing and songwriting hover in the neighborhood of jazz because terms like “new age" and “world music" don't seem to quite cover it. Live Free (Evolver, 2009) was exactly that, a freely expressed vocal recording taped live with a quartet at Boston's Ryles' Club. Danza demonstrated amply the depth and breadth of her ...

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Janya: Janya

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Janya's sound is all about Korean-influenced music for the free jazz-loving soul. The members of this female foursome are all of Korean descent, and bring a free yet flowing sensibility to this seven-song program of original music. While the presence of instruments like gayageum, daegeum and janggo--a zither-like string instrument, bamboo transverse flute, and hour-glass shaped drum, respectively-- give this group a decidedly Eastern sound veering toward the mystical and mysterious, Lola Danza's vocals bring diversity and, ...

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Extended Analysis

Lola Danza: Vision Quest

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Lola DanzaVision QuestEvolver 2005 New York jazz singer and composer Lola Danza has a background in avant-garde jazz and, before that, in classical singing. Active on the New York scene since 2007, when she arrived from Boston and Berkelee School of Music studies, the singer has immersed herself in predominantly free jazz performance. Already attracted to the idea of free improvisation in Boston, Danza  progressed to completely free expression with an album ...

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Lola Danza: Free To Sing Free

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Free jazz has wound its way through many permutations since arriving in the early '60s. An important custodian of its new directions is vocalist and composer Lola Danza, of Brooklyn.

Danza is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, and stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating, developing her approach to music before becoming completely “free" over the last three years.

Her latest album, Live Free (Evolver, 2009), is a live ...

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Performance / Tour

Lola Danza debuts her project "Janya" at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Friday May 13th 2011 at 6pm

Lola Danza debuts her project "Janya" at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Friday May 13th 2011 at 6pm

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In Sanskrit Janya means to be born and in Korean Janya means around dawn. Janya was created by four unique musicians— all derived from Korean descent and all women. The music is a fusion of East and West—the East: Seungmin Cha- Daegeum, Eun Sun Jung- Gayageum and Woonjung Sim- Janggo, the West with Half Korean American Singer Lola Jung Danza. Something shamanic and magical exists between the four musician women and so— Janya was born... around dawn. Janya will make ...

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Third Night Of Inventive M.A.K. Series is tonight at Fat Baby, Lower East Side

Third Night Of Inventive M.A.K. Series is tonight at Fat Baby, Lower East Side

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The M.A.K. series of all-inclusive worlds-bridging modern music, from the traditional jazz songs opener with cabaret star Aaron Bond to the inventive and world music of Lola Danza, the curator of the event. Lola Danza with traditional Korean music, DJ Nastee, Lola Danza's original compositions, ZenBeatz, and Aaron Bond will begin the proceedings. Fat Baby 122 Rivington Street New York, NY 212-533-1888 Sunday, April 17, 2011 @ 7:00 pm Come and join the music ...

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The Nikka Arts Foundation is proud to announce the launch of the new music series M.A.K. (Music And Kreation)

The Nikka Arts Foundation is proud to announce the launch of the new music series M.A.K. (Music And Kreation)

Source: Chris Rich

The M.A.K. new music series will showcase an all star line up, as well as local favorites. Upcoming special guests will include Shelia Jordan, Kendrick Scott and Bill Laswell, to name a few. It is our mission is to nourish the creative arts culture by presenting artists and their creations. Nikka will serve as a conduit, exposing audiences to creative options and choices, a source to investigate and experience the vast diversity in music and the visual arts. We are ...

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Recording

All About Jazz / SonicBids MP3 Download of the Month for January: Lola Danza "Mountain Rabbit" from Vision Quest

All About Jazz / SonicBids MP3 Download of the Month for January: Lola Danza "Mountain Rabbit" from Vision Quest

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All About Jazz has selected Lola Danza's “Mountain Rabbit" from Vision Quest as our featured SonicBids MP3 Download of the Month for January. You can download and listen to the track for free here. Enjoy! Your friends at All About Jazz and SonicBids About the All About Jazz/SonicBids Download Program 6.4 million downloads and going strong! All About Jazz has offered a free full-length MP3 daily since 2005. We also select and feature at least one track per month through ...

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All About Jazz / SonicBids MP3 Download of the Month: Lola Danza's "Mountain Rabbit" from Vision Quest

All About Jazz / SonicBids MP3 Download of the Month: Lola Danza's "Mountain Rabbit" from Vision Quest

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All About Jazz has selected Lola Danza's “Mountain Rabbit" from Vision Quest as our featured SonicBids MP3 Download of the Month. You can download and listen to the track for free here. Enjoy! Your friends at All About Jazz and SonicBids

About the All About Jazz/SonicBids Download Program 6.4 million downloads and going strong! All About Jazz has offered a free full-length MP3 daily since 2005. We also select and feature at least one track per month through ...

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Lola Danza Sings Cornelia Street Cafe, Tuesday Dec. 28th at 9:30PM with Grey McMurray, Sean Conly, Jason Nazary

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"With a stunning voice that elongates words and phrases with almost ethereal clarity, Danza follows her own muse stylistically, preferring the spare and airy to the busy and hot."—Bob Young Boston Herald This appearance at Cornelia Street Café will mark the premier of Lola Danza's latest musical works which will soon be released on her upcoming album “Human Condition." With her four-octave range and vast array of vocal technique, Ms. Danza's voice is rich, full and resonate. Lola's music reveals ...

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Interview

Singer Lola Danza Interviewed at AAJ

Singer Lola Danza Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz

Free jazz has wound its way through many permutations since arriving in the early '60s. An important custodian of its new directions is vocalist and composer Lola Danza, of Brooklyn.

Danza is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, and stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating, developing her approach to music before becoming completely “free" over the last three years.

Her latest album, Live Free (Evolver, 2009), is a live recording from a gig at Boston's ...

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Lola Danza Sings with Bob Moses, Matt Langley & Wes Brown on April 17 at Ryles Jazz Club

Lola Danza Sings with Bob Moses, Matt Langley & Wes Brown on April 17 at Ryles Jazz Club

Source: All About Jazz

The enchanting and innovative vocalist, Lola Danza celebrates with an evening of experimental jazz music at Ryles Jazz Club (212 Hampshire St. Cambridge MA) Thursday April 17, 2008 at 8:30pm. Ms. Danza will be joined by special guests: Matt Langley- Saxophone, Bob Moses - Drums, Wes Brown- Bass, Leo Genovese- Piano and Nat Mugavero - Drums. Ms. Danza combines Jazz, Avant-garde, World, Classical, Post Modern Pop and Americana music. Danza's created a new idiom in Jazz. Lola's original compositions evoke ...

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Lola Danza @ Ryles Jazz Club w/ Dave Tronzo and Dominique Eade

Lola Danza @ Ryles Jazz Club w/ Dave Tronzo and Dominique Eade

Source: All About Jazz

The enchanting and innovative vocalist, Lola Danza celebrates Boston's finest Jazz Musicians with a reunion concert at Ryles Jazz Club (212 Hampshire St. Cambridge MA) Thursday February 28th, 2008 at 8:30pm. Ms. Danza will be joined by special guests, vocalist Dominique Eade, Dave Tronzo - guitar, Bob Gullotti - Drums, John Lockwood - Bass, Leo Genovese- Piano, Phil Grenadier - Trumpet, Jeff Galindo - Trombone, and Nat Mugavero - Drums. Ms. Danza celebrates Boston's finest Jazz musicians, her band mates, ...

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Lola Danza Sings at the Bowery Poetry Club November 26th with Sean Conly and Rich Stein

Lola Danza Sings at the Bowery Poetry Club November 26th with Sean Conly and Rich Stein

Source: All About Jazz

The innovative vocalist and composer, Lola Danza celebrates her project Nadu featuring Sean Conly acoustic bass, Rich Stein drums and Phil Grenadier trumpet with visual artist, painter Jacqueline Chachitz and dancer Lenora Lee, Monday, November 26th 2007 at 8pm at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery St. between Houston & Bleecker St. 212.614.0505 New York, NY 10012). The project Nadu infuses two mediums: music and visual art. Nadu celebrates the organic, the spiritual and the primal creation of music, dance ...

“With a stunning voice that elongates words and phrases with almost ethereal clarity, Danza follows her own muse stylistically, preferring the spare and airy to the busy and hot.” - Bob Young Boston Herald

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