JazzTimes calls Michelle Lordi's latest album,
//BREAK UP WITH THE SOUND// “A mesmerizing alt-country jazz dreamscape” . Lordi’s music has been hailed as “flawless” -Downbeat magazine, “White Hot Creation” - All About Jazz & “Fresh with powerful originals” -JazzLife Japan.
Lordi was nominated in three categories (Best Band, Rising Star & Female Jazz Vocalist) in the Hot House NYC 2019 Readers poll & was named a “HOMETOWN HERO” by Jazz Philadelphia (2021) & was chosen to record her originals for a WRTI NPR Music feature (2020)
Lordi performs regularly on stages such as Birdland, SMOKE, 55 Bar, Mezzrow, (NYC) Mann Music Center (PA), Kimmel Center (PA), Dazzle (CO) , BluJazz (OH) , Bop Stop (OH), Dirty Dog (MI) and has recorded/ performed with jazz/ masters/luminaries such as Buster Williams, Larry McKenna, Donny McCaslin, Rudy Royston, Orrin Evans, Matthew Parrish, JD Allen, Nasheet Waits, Tim Motzer, Warren Defever (4AD
band His Name Is Alive) Eric Wortham II, Eric Revis & Nir Felder.
Lordi’s profound love of the music she chooses to sing and the musicians she creates with is evident in every note of her vividly expressive and elegantly communicative voice.
VISUAL ARTIST
Lordi studied Photography at Parsons School Of Design in NYC. Her artwork/photography has been featured in juried shows 2000-present & graces her most recent recordings and appears in several performance videos including those for NPR Music (2020). Lordi’s artwork compliments her music with its raw and expressive nature, bringing primeval and modern imagery together to document loss, desire and memory through a digital lens.
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Michelle Lordi-Voice & images
Matthew Parrish-Bass & MD
Orrin Evans- piano