Brian Kelly
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Home Town: Oakland, CA
Genre: Smooth Jazz
Posted By: skylight
Joined On: November 10, 2005
Page Views: 2,228
Song Plays: 0
Current Rank: 16,267
Highest Rank: 1,035
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Albums
Afterplay (2008), Pools of Light (2005)
Similar Artists
Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Keiko Matsui, David Benoit, Secret Garden, David Lanz
Instruments
Piano, Keyboards
Musical Style
Contemporary Instrumental Piano, New Age, Smooth Jazz, Neo-Classical, World Music
Influences
Brian draws inspiration from Classical, World, and Jazz traditions. |
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"...POOLS OF LIGHT is a lush, sparkling journey into a beautiful world of elegant melodies and brilliant
artistry. The music rises and falls in powerful, yet gentle, waves of emotion... a totally captivating
collection of original compositions…" - SmoothJazz.com
| "Pools of Light... is an enchanting, heart opening, timeless masterpiece. [Brian] interweaves melodic lines and rhythms, and layers sounds to achieve a musical sound that is instantly mind expanding. He's also merged New Age with Jazz which is difficult to do, similar to rare artists such as Pat Metheny. You can't go wrong with this album. "
- Steven Cravis, recording artist
| CD Review of Brian Kelly's ‘Pools Of Light'
Reviewed by R.J. Lannan
Publication: newagereporter.com
Date: June 25, 2005
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Smooth Light Travel
If you have some preconceived notion of what very good contemporary music ought to sound like, think again. Then go look up Brian Kelly. On his new album, Pools of Light, Brian takes the high road to a place just this side of light jazz and contemporary instrumental music. His lively mix of tunes and themes takes you on a light hearted journey through many doors and at the end of each one is a new and different pool of light. Each one more thought provoking then the next, Kelly's piano and keyboards orchestrations provide a venue of positive thoughts and inspirational compositions.
Contributing to the fresh, energetic album is flute player Peter Cornell, Ben Mawhorter on tablas, and John Waller of percussion. In the summery opening number, Open Sky, Kelly and his friends take to the azure road with a strong... Read entire review » |
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