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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 review here ]
Los Angeles musician, Aimee Nolte is a jazz pianist, vocalist and thriving YouTube creator, constantly pursuing new recording, performing, and educational projects. Though primarily a jazz player, she knows over a thousand songs and can play them at the drop of a hat. Aimee earned her jazz piano degree from Brigham Young University In 1998 and has been an active and passionate musician ever since; even as a wife and mother of four! She has released three full-length albums so far that have been reviewed as deeply personal, captivating pieces of art. Downbeat praised her 2019 release, Looking For The Answers, raving that “What separates Nolte from other vocalists and composers is the poetry and storytelling quality of her compositions, with lyrics reminescent of Joni Mitchell.” In 2016, Aimee started her YouTube channel, "Aimee Nolte Music" where she now has over 150K subscribers. She shares the music that is inside of her with the world in her videos, whether through captivating duets with John Clayton and Nicki Parrott or breaking down the tiniest nuances of a McCoy Tyner solo in a way that makes even the most advanced techniques understandable to beginning musicians. Teaching topics like harmony, arranging, advanced jazz piano techniques, and even beginning piano and vocal skills comes as second nature to Aimee, and she is frequently called upon to perform and appear as a guest clinician all over the country.
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).

4 TASTY 2-5-1 Substitutions

When you see a 251 chord progression, realize that you don't have to play it as written. There are options. Let me show you a few of my favorites!

ALL The Weird Pandemic Gigs

Tell me about your strange pandemic gigs. I'd love to know how you’ve been getting by and keeping your skills sharp.

Piano Videos

Here is a complete guide to the piano tutorials on my YouTube channel. I have organized them into playlists and made a PDF, listing everything for you! I hope this helps you navigate through all of my videos. Thank you for being subscriber and congrats on starting your journey in jazz piano!

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Aubrey

Charlie Nolte Jason Neubauer At the beginning of the summer, my son Charlie and I were listening to the band, Bread, and the song Aubrey came on. I had heard it before but not for a long time. Charlie immediately fell in love with it. We decided to do something about our love for this song, so I called up my friend Jason Neubauer and asked him if he would help.

Aimee Nolte He sent a beautiful guitar part, I made an arrangement with vocal harmonies and Charlie sang lead.

Everything was recorded at my home (except the guitar) and between Jason and I, we mixed and mastered the project. This is the result.

It feels so good to have made something with Charlie and I hope you all enjoy it!

My Point And Sing Method IN PRACTICE

Let's take my "point and sing" practice method and really stretch the limits of what is possible! I reserve the right to stretch even further in the future.

The Prowess Of Phineas Newborn Jr.

One of the most fun advanced piano improv techniques is the playing of lines in unison with two hands. No one set a finer example of how to pull this off than Phineas Newborn. Drawing from a 1962 Jazz Scene USA video of the Phineas Newborn Jr. Trio (with Al McKibbon and Kenny Dennis), I take one of these epic two-handed lines and create an exercise for you!

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