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Aimee Nolte
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Downbeat Review - Aimee Nolte’s voice is beautiful, sonorous and reflective on her latest album Looking For The Answers, The singer arranged and produced every track on the album, lending a consistent aesthetic and laid-back vibe to most of the cuts here. What separates Nolte from other vocalists and composers is the poetry and storytelling quality of her compositions, with lyrics reminescent of Joni Mitchell - just minus Mitchell playfulness. “Save Me One Last Time” speaks to the bandleadeader’s seriousness as a lyricists when the theme of lost love is addressed: “If I keep on falling, I’ll be lost forever/ Save me one last time.” [ Read the full reviw here ]
Aimee Nolte is a jazz singer and pianist who lives in the LA area and performs regularly, both solo and with her trio. She is primarily a jazz player but knows over a thousand songs and can play them at the drop of a hat. She has a jazz piano degree from Brigham Young University and has been an active performer ever since she graduated in 1998; even as a wife and mother of 4! She has released two full-length albums so far that have been reviewed as deeply personal, captivating pieces of art. In 2016, Aimee started her YouTube channel, "Aimee Nolte Music" where she shares the music that is inside of her with the world. Teaching topics like harmony, arranging, advanced jazz piano techniques, and even beginning piano and vocal skills comes as second nature to Aimee. This single is the first step in a new album that will be finished around the end of 2018, and it marks a new stepping stone in Aimee's career. With it, she hopes to find a new, warmer vibe; an organic-feeling sensibility that takes from her jazz background but sees no limits, and stretches to include all flavors of music. "The Loveliest Girl" really captures that new feeling that she's trying to achieve with the use of orchestral-type scoring for woodwind instruments and lovely textual painting that makes you want to close your eyes and journey through the story that the song tells. Listen carefully. You won't want to miss a thing
She continues to play and sing regularly all over Los Angeles County. January, 2006 marked the release of her first album, “Up Til Now”. She sings, plays piano and harmonica, and wrote and produced all of the tracks on the album.
In 2010, Aimee released her second album with her longtime guitarist, Hideaki Tokunaga, entitled, "Just Us". Aimee composed 7 of the CD's 11 tracks, and co-wrote 2.
Aimee has had the opportunity to perform in the past with greats such as John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton, Ken Peplowski, Frank Vignola, Lenny White, and most recently, the Aimee Nolte Trio (with Mike Scott and Roger Shew), and her duo, "Skirt & Suit (with Joshua Payne on guitar) with regular gigs around the LA area. Recently she performed with Nicki Parrott along with a new trio (Robert Taylor & Justin Varnes).

MY NEW SERIES! At The Piano with Jeremy Siskind

Welcome to At The Piano, with Jeremy Siskind, the award-winning, extremely accomplished, pianist/composer/educator. We are at Keyboard Concepts in Santa Monica, CA, where they have furnished us with a Bösendorfer 214 7’ and a 185VC CS 6’1!

Request Time - Live With Aimee

You never know when I'll decide to (and find the time to) go live, so make sure you're subscribed and that you have pressed the notification button (a little bell next to the subscribe button on Youtube)! Pick up the album Looking For The Answers here! song.link/album/i/1454430825 Thank you!

When The Harmony IS The Melody

Are you ever fooled by a harmony that has so much strength and power, you think it's really the melody? Let's look at examples by some of the greatest harmony writers in rock and pop and discover deeper truths about the meaning of "melody."

Practicing Over ONE Chord

Even over just one chord, there are endless ideas to be played! Pick up the backing track here and play it in loop mode.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
Minor Funk Exercise	MP3 file (set your player in loop mode)	3379 kB

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Men! You Can TOTALLY Sing Up High!	click
Jazz Piano: WHERE TO START (ii V7 Is with 3rds & 7s)	click
Why Do Pop Singers Sound SO WEIRD?? [*]	click
Jazz Lesson: How To FREAKING SWING	click
Jacob Collier / Mathis Picard Improvised Piano Duet At The Blue Note	click
Aimee's Top 25 Jazz Standards To Know	click
Summertime: How To Play With A "2 Feel"	click

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Story Time!! My Story; How I Got Into Jazz

From my small town roots and Whitney Houston cassettes to rootless voicings and hustling gigs!

Soloing On "SO WHAT"

Transcribing GREAT solos, analyzing them and learning to apply key elements into your own soloing is the best way I know to improve your improvisational skills. I'd like to show you what I worked on with my student, Lucy in our last lesson and challenge you to transcribe, analyze, and GROW.

Let's Get Serious About FUNK

I want to follow Miles Davis' example on this one. Learning to feel the groove can be a trick business. Getting technical and boring about it can only get you so far. Let's say some classic funk phrases and really try to get this feel inside of us!