Fern Lindzon @Fernflight is a Canadian multi-style pianist, vocalist, composer and improvisor. She recently released a great album with her new trio project Tryptique with Colleen Allen and George Koller ,and we’re featuring music from that album as well as some of her other work, including her Juno-nominated album Two Kites. We talked about her mother, the artist Rose Lindzon, many mentors and influences including Don Thompson, Alan Bern and Marilyn Lerner, and several of Fern’s projects including creating silent film music, Klezmer with the Sisters of Sheynville, and her new project of learning the expressive electronic instrument the Haken Continuum. In fact, what really struck me about talking to Fern was her thirst to continuously expand her knowledge, skills, and creativity.
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Fern Lindzon website: https://www.fernlindzon.com/music/
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Some other episodes I’ve linked directly to this one, which I think may interest you:
Colleen Allen https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/colleen-allen
Matt Zimbel https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/mattzimbel
Polina Shepherd https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/polina-shepherd?rq=Polina%20Shepherd
Marilyn Lerner https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/marilyn-lerner?rq=Marilyn%20Lerner
Kellylee Evans https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/e4s2kellyleeevans?rq=Kellylee%20Evans
Kait Dunton https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/kait-dunton?rq=Kait%20Dunton
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(03:08)Fern’s mother the artist Rose Lindzon
(07:02) Tryptique, decision to focus on piano playing
(12:29) studying jazz with Don Thompson, Fred Hersch
(17:04) excerpt of Eucalyptus from Tryptique
(18:45) creativity prompts, silent film music
(22:28) clip from the Windmills of Your Mind from album Like a Circle in a Spiral
(23:52) Tryptique, Bach chorale inspiration
(25:37) clip from Do Look from Tryptique
(26:53) Las Meninas project, Canarios, inspiration from visual art, Gaspar Sanz
(29:50) clip from Canarios from Tryptique
(30:39) how to get support for projects, Marilyn Lerner
(32:46) Doug Wilde
(34:19)clip from Wondering from Tryptique
(35:24)silent films, musical evolution and Education
(42:24) Klezmer, Sisters of Sheynville, Alan Bern
(45:49) other episodes you’ll like and different ways to support this series
(46:42) Tryptique, George Koller
(48:10) clip from Compassion Blues from Tryptique
(50:23) Toronto jazz scene
(54:27) Two Kites album
(57:00) clip from Two Kites
(57:59)singing, lyrics
(1:04:19) To See Through Infant Eyes from Moments Like These
(1:08:38)A Circle in a Spiral, Peter Bragg photographer
(01:11:22) teaching, Fern’s childhood, listening parties
(01:16:45) Haken continuum
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