LENORE RAPHAEL
Critics, jazz hosts and jazz lovers all agree that she is one of the most SWINGING mainstream pianists today. Influenced by Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell and Bill Evans, she has taken these influences and created her own recognizable sound.
Lenore Raphael, is an internationally renowned jazz Pianist, Steinway artist, radio host and jazz teacher and has been critically acclaimed as one of the best pianists in the jazz mainstream today.
She has performed and in many cases, sold out major jazz clubs and festivals…Dizzy's at Jazz At Lincoln Center (3 times), The Blue Note (NYC), Birdland (NYC) The London Jazz Festival, The Tel Aviv Jazz festival, Ottawa International Jazz Festival, Ronnie Scott's in London, The S.S. Oosterdam jazz cruise, and many more. She was one of three featured internationally renowned Steinway pianists including Ahmad Jamal and Abdullah Ibraham, at the Joy Of Jazz festival in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lenore also performed to sold out audiences in April 2014 at the Casa Da Musica in Porto Portugal and at The Broward Center for the Arts Amaturo theater in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She has toured in England and Europe and Israel. In 2016 she did a major tour in South Africa and is always invited to return to venues where she performs.
Lenore is "one of the baddest pianists out there today"...Jon Hendricks
"This blond Ambassador of Steinway will musically knock your socks off"...Brian Hough, JassMan Magazine
"Lenore is the best jazz/swing pianist in the world today, in my opinion. I've been a jazz/swing broadcaster for more than 40 years now. Her master classes are awesome too"...Henry Holloway, Cape Town, SA
"Lenore possesses a wickedly good talent that has been harvested hard over the years. Her melodies and echoes of jazz history resonate in the mind long after the last note is struck. She is always very, very welcome at Neon Jazz. Listeners relish the refreshing energy she infuses into the jazz lexicon."...Joe Dimino, Host & Creator of Neon Jazz Radio in Kansas City, MO