BNY Mellon presents Pittsburgh Jazz Live Tuesdays from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

The Lynn Speakman Quintet for JazzLive Tuesdays, Allegheny Overlook, Downtown

Lynn Speakman - alto saxophone/composer; James Moore - trumpet; Deanna Witkowski - piano; Jeff Grubbs - bass; Kyle Andrews - drums

Lynn Speakman (alto saxophone/flute) has been a performer, composer, arranger, copyist, and music educator for the past 20 years. Her career has given her the opportunity to perform with bands such as the Christian McBride Big Band, Gerald Wilson and His Orchestra, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and Wycliffe Gordon Big Band as well as her own small groups. Lynn is also an experienced music educator and has performed and taught at the Stanford Jazz Workshop for 12 years as well as Calhoun School and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Middle School Jazz Academy in NYC, Detroit Civic Youth Jazz in Michigan, and Center of Life Jazz in Pittsburgh. In addition to teaching and performing, Lynn spends much of her time composing and arranging as well as transcribing and engraving music for her own band, her students, and for a large list of clients in NYC, where she resided for 7 years.

The Lynn Speakman Quintet will perform original compositions and arrangements written by Lynn as well as Hard Bop era repertoire from the books of the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and more.

LOCATION: Allegheny Overlook is a new pop-up park located in downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District on Fort Duquesne Boulevard between 7th St. and Stanwix St. Anchored by a stage and featuring Janel Young's Pathway to Joy street mural, it offers visitors expansive riverfront views, fresh food, drinks, live music, and more in a park-like setting, all summer long.