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"Effervescent, vivacious and all-together engaging" is how smoothjazz.com describes Under The Lake's music, an original sound that Don Dilorio of the North Jersey Herald and News says "doesn't sit easy in any category, thanks to its heavy doses of funkified bass and occasional soul references."
Keyboard player Jayson Tipp founded Under The Lake nearly 30 years ago. Over the past three decades Under The Lake has garnered many notable accomplishments across their first 4 releases: Dive In (1993), Up For Air (1996), People Together (2007) and Jazz, Groove & Attitude (2018). The band’s credits include live performances with a "who's who" list of jazz artists such as Joe Sample, Billy Cobham, Keiko Matsui, Stanley Jordan, and others with appearances at venues such as the PDX Jazz Festival, Cathedral Park Jazz Festival, Maui Music Festival, Newport Beach Jazz Festival, KIFM Smooth Jazz Festival and the House of Blues.
Under The Lake have received immense critical praise in local, regional, national, and international publications including JazzTimes, Jazziz, France's Jazz Hot, Canada's Exclaim, Germany's Cascade, as well as The New York Daily News, UTNE Reader, and The Music Paper. UTL received a four star rating for UTL's 1996 release "Up For Air" from the All Music Guide and a Top 50 charting release "People Together" (2007).
Tipp grew up taking lessons on guitar and organ and playing trumpet and trombone in school bands and later migrated to keyboards playing rock and fusion. From his college days in St. Louis, Tipp has been an active live performer and composer. Under The Lake started performing in 1992 in San Diego, founded by Tipp as an outlet to perform his original compositions. Tipp’s early influences, ranging from Bob James, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Jeff Lorber and The Crusaders to Steely Dan and Traffic, resulted in an eclectic contemporary mix Tipp called “rough jazz.” Radio airplay and strong reviews of the group’s first release “Dive In” (1993) and subsequent release “Up For Air” (1995) led to a string of appearances at venues such as House of Blues, Newport Beach Jazz Festival and Maui Music Festival with artists such as Stanley Jordan, Keiko Matsui, and Joe Sample.
After that second release, Tipp struggled to keep the band going and raise a family. The group was on track to record another album in 1998 and then several members of the group (including Tipp) had life events that sent them in different directions. Tipp pursued an engrossing career outside of music. The group came back together in 2005 to celebrate Tipp’s 40th birthday, which was the impetus to record their third album, “People Together” (2007), and the inspiration for that album name. But the group didn’t maintain the momentum of that release and life took over again.
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About Jayson Tipp from Under The Lake: Effervescent, vivacious and all-together engaging" is how one reviewer describes Under The Lake's music, an original sound that Don Dilorio of the North Jersey Herald and News says doesn't sit easy in any category, thanks to its heavy doses of funkified bass and occasional soul references." It's an sound that Under The Lake refers to as jazz, groove and attitude." Founded and led by keyboard player Jayson Tipp, Under The Lake's ...
Continue ReadingFor Your Grammy Consideration: Old Friends, New Grooves by Under The Lake
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Hot off the success of their 2020 Smoothjazz.com Top 100 release “Your Horizon Too”, Under The Lake released their current collection of 11 all-new, original tracks entitled Old Friends, New Grooves in July on the Mind In Overdrive label. Bassist Nathan Brown, drummer Richard Sellers, guitarist Patrick Yandall and saxophonist Quintin Gerard W. joined keyboardist / composer Jayson Tipp again for this effort recorded during the COVID shutdown. Now that collection of tracks and their performance have landed Under The ...
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Reunited after nearly a decade - Under The Lake to perform again
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It's been 8 years since Under The Lake last performed as a group in front of an audience. The talented fusion group, based out of San Diego for most of the 90's, is reuniting for a one-time performance in Seattle on September 16th. The appearance will be at the Columbia City Theater, a restored vaudevillian theater (www.columbiacitytheater.com).
The group, including all of the members from their most recent tour will perform material from
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"...the next best thing since Spyro Gyra." – RivetingRiffs.com
Creative Energies (1996) by Jonathan Widran – All Music Guide (www.allmusic.com) - "The genre needs all the new creative energies it can muster from ensembles like Under the Lake, which balances its smooth pop ideas with rougher edges bordering on rough fusion."
The Groove's the Thing – Improvijazzation Nation - "This is a FINE example of the creativity and high-energy playing that today's jazz can be."
Solid Contemporary Jazz with a bit of Groove and Attitude – Cedar Rapids Gazette (Dick Hogan) - "The snazzy quintet puts out very listenable contemporary jazz with the CD's 13 original tunes. For comparison's sake, the band's sound can be likened to The Crusaders, Larry Carlton, Bob James, and David Sanborn (when he cuts away from the formula stuff he often records)."
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