Rachel Flowers for Progressive/Jazz Fusion

Her latest album was released this year but she cannot be accepted unless she gets unanimous thumbs-ups in Jazz / Fusion Team.

Alerted the Team. Thanks anyway. 

Hi,

I hope she gets the votes to be included.

The only thing that scares me, is that too many bands, that don't have the amount of material to show for it, are added now and then, and when you see the tube material, plus her own albums, this woman deserves a lot more than just ... oh well ... so what?

Even more impressive is her participating in various concerts to honor Keith Emerson, and playing some of his work, and these, other than the big concert (I think the DVD/CD will be out next year), are so far and away too well done. A piano version of Tarkus. An organ version of Tarkus. Various other pieces on piano as well, and NONE of these are released on a CD, which would be massive, and a very important document that would honor the spirit of Keith Emerson like so few folks have been able to do other than copy! She's taken it all a step further ... oh yeah, she can play them regular, but seeing the music side of it, is something that only a special talent can put together, and SEE ... and at that point, it's difficult not to mention that she's blind since birth, and we know via the latest album (Bigger on the Inside) that she has a VERY CLEAR VISION of what her own music needs to be and say, while also suggesting that a lot of the music she plays and has honored in the past, is also something that she has been able to envision really well, to the point of being able to play right, and so well.

One funny bit ... there is one KC track that has been for many years really badly mixed, and it took away many of the little touches that Bill Bruford had in the piece, which gave the piece a somewhat different touch than we originally thought, and in some ways, came off as more playful. On the version that Rachel did, you can hear these small bits and pieces, and it adds to the whole of the piece, but I wonder if RF did not like to have the attention taken away from one thing, in regards to the completeness of the piece. 

But it tells you, how far, and how deep someone can see music and you can see this detail in the latest album, which is fantastic, and specially so on the three large pieces in it. The smaller material is also nice, but in my mind, the development and expression in the 3 large pieces is super special and in the end, it really is very well designed, regardless of whomever you think it sounds like for 5 seconds, only for it to blend into something else that is just as good if not better.

I'm not sure that we can ask more of an artist, or that there is much more that an artist can give us ... this is too special, for PA not to consider it!

Is that something I need to do because I nominated her in Jazz/Fusion?

Rachel Flowers is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from California working in several different branches of rock music. Despite having been permanently blind from an early age, she has gained a reputation for being an impressive keyboard virtuoso as well an accomplished flute, guitar, bass, saxophone and Chapman Stick player. Her star in the progressive rock community rose swiftly from 2011 onward, after she began publishing solo piano and synthesizer recordings of songs by Emerson, Lake & Palmer on YouTube, which even gained her the attention of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake themselves. Since then, she has released three solo albums and has performed with Herbie Hancock, Dweezil Zappa, Rick Wakeman, Arturo Sandoval, Michael Sadler and Terje Mikkelsen, among many others. She also played piano at Keith Emerson's tribute concert in 2016.

Her debut album "Listen" was released in 2016 and consisted mostly of instrumental jazz fusion pieces, in tribute to Flowers's long-standing admiration of the music of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Ella Fitzgerald. She played every instrument on the album by herself. Her follow-up album, 2017's "Going Somewhere", showed more influence from rock and pop music and featured her vocals for the first time. With the release of her third album "Bigger On The Inside" in 2021, she has continued her musical trajectory into harder-hitting progressive rock music while retaining the characteristic optimism and listener-friendly nature of her earlier output.

this is not rude at all imho, as this improves things a lot, thanks

Please note the post above Mirakaze's.

The only thing I think I would change is to get rid of the "and more complex" before progressive rock.  It sort of implies her earlier work was not complex.  Songs like Gregs Favorite, Runs For Miles, Aloha, Will You Remember Me, ... are just as complex as anything on Bigger on the Inside.