Product Description Molly Flannery's distinctive touch on the piano, her melodic improvisations, her ability to groove in jazz, latin, and Brailian idioms as well as arrange compose, and lead ensembles have made her a major player on the highly competitive Boston jazz scene. After studying composition, improvisation and theory at Yale, Molly began her performing career in Kyoto, Japan in 1981 where she appeared frequently at local clubs playing rock and jazz. In 1983 she left Japan and eventually settled in Boston where she studied jazz with Harvey Diamond, Ran Blake, Charlie Banacas, and Kenny Werner. Soon after she became the keyboardplayer for Cosmos Factor, the popular world beat dance band, with whom she appeared regularly at Ryles and on WERS Radio's Gyroscope. The group was nominated for Best World Beat Band at the Boston Music Awards during that time. Then she moved on and formed the Molly Flannery Quintet, playing such popular Boston jazz venues as The Willow, The Western Front, the 1359 Club, and Ryles. The Quintet's music began popping up quite often on jazz radio programs such as WGBH's Eric in the Evening, and Harvard Radio's Jazz Spectrum. When their CD, 'Slow Dance at the Asylum' was released in 1999, it received wide air play and high praise from jazz critics, musicians, and listeners. Review "A lot of beautiful music. The title track is destined to become a jazz classic." -- Russ Gershon of Either Orchestra"An emotional statement with great depth of feeling" -- Kenny Werner, RCA recording artist"There is an admirable relaxation about the band's groove and Flannery is a fluent player who impresses with the sauntering and playful spirit of her playing, as she also does in scuh memorable originals as the jaunty ostinato vamp of "Island Reverie" and the melancholy title track's nursery rhyme refrain that evolves into disjointed counterpoint. The free floating solos build a melancholy ballad mood that is most memorable. Flannery and her band show that they are capable of generating music of real substance. Recommended." -- David Lewis, "Cadence: The Review of Jazz & Blues: Creative Improvised Music", Vol. 25, No. 10, October 1999 About the Artist Molly Flannery's distinctive touch on the piano, her melodic improvisations, her ability to groove in jazz, latin, and Brazilian idioms, as well as arrange, compose, and lead ensembles have made her a major player on the highly competitive Boston jazz scene. After studying composition, improvisation and theory at Yale, Molly began her performing career in Kyoto, Japan in 1981 where she appeared frequently at local clubs playing rock and jazz. In 1983 she left Japan and eventually settled in Boston where she studied jazz with Ran Blake, Charlie Banacas, and Kenny Werner. Soon after she became the keyboard player for Cosmos Factor, the popular world beat dance band, with whom she appeared regualrly at Ryles and on WERS Radio's Gyroscope. The group was nominated for Best World Beat Band at the Boston Music Awards during that time. Then she moved on and formed the Molly Flannery Quintet, playing such popular Boston jazz venues as The Willow, The Western Front, The 1359 Club, and Ryles. The Quintet's music began popping up quite often on jazz radio programs such as WGBH's Eric in the Evening, and Harvard Radio's Jazz Spectrum. When their CD, "Slow Dance at the Asylum" was released in 1999, it received wide air play and high praise from jazz critics, musicians and listeners. Band Members: Molly Flannery -- piano Jane Wang -- acoustic bass Michael Zank -- drums, voice Tom Zicarelli -- saxophones Steve Elliott -- trombone, voice Special Guests: Melissa Kassel -- voice John Turner -- bass John McLellan -- drums See more