Wendy Luck: From the Pyramids to the Rainbow Room

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From Alexis: Wendy has been a JazzVoice.com member since The Very Beginning, June 2020! I met Wendy when she started studying with me. She's an incredible student, and rarely a lesson goes by when one or the other of us doesn't cry. (that's not normal). I'm constantly inspired by Wendy's commitment to the music and to learning, and her sincerity and honesty in delivery. She's also my neighbor in the Hudson Valley, and she and her boyfriend came over for a little party we had before it got too cold outside! It was great to finally meet! Check out Wendy's bio from her website, she's one of the most diversely accomplished people I've ever met.

A VOICE. A FLUTE. A MUSE. A MISSION.

“Utterly original.” ~ Adriana Trigiani, New York Times Best Selling Author

“Pure inspiration delivered with multi-faceted talent.” ~ Bill Bauman, Ph.D. Modern Mystic Wendy Luck, internationally recognized flutist, vocalist, composer, and multimedia artist has concertized in the United States, Italy, France, Poland, Germany, Budapest, Morocco, Portugal, Greece, Egypt, Israel, Croatia, Montenegro, Mexico and Costa Rica. Residing in New York City, her array of artistic venues ranges from orchestral/chamber performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall, to Big Band music as lead vocalist/flutist at the Rainbow Room in New York City, to jazz and avant-garde at the Knitting Factory, Roulette, and The Kitchen, to the comedy club circuit, as comedienne with “The Outcasts,” to recording her own compositions in Egypt inside the Great Pyramid and in the temples along the Nile.

Her earlier CDs include See You in Rio, recorded in Brazil, with notable rhythm section of legendary composer and singer João Bosco, featuring Brazilian jazz; and Orchids and Moonbeams, a jazz and classical alchemy, featuring her lyrics, voice and flute playing, with the music of Michael Kraft.

Her originally conceived, written, and performed one-woman show entitled Aquatic Information, a multimedia presentation consisting of her music compositions, video backdrops, live video projection, animation, characters, and staging, was selected for presentation in J-Fest and the Venus Theater Festival for Women Playwrights Competition in New York City.

Ms. Luck has appeared in theater, on television, radio, and film. In Wendy’s major movie debut of Adriana Trigiani’s movie, Big Stone Gap (with Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopie Goldberg, Jenna Elfmann), she plays flute, sings, fiddles, and acts.

As a musician, performances with her jazz quartet include venues such as Windows on the World, Waldorf Astoria, Carlyle Hotel, Cornelia Street Café, and countless clubs; as well as in Atlantic City at the Tropicana, Resorts International, and Caesar’s as the opening act for David Brenner, Julio Iglesis, and others. She has also worked and recorded with such jazz and avant-garde artists as Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Oliver Lake, Marion Brown, Ed Blackwell, Dave Holland, Karl Berger, Wallace Roney, Anthony Braxton, Bob Moses, Jack DeJohnette, Sam Rivers, Tyrone Brown, Joe Lovano, Rodolfo Alchourron, Cyro Baptista, Bucky Pizzarelli, Ed Laub, Dinu Ghezzo, Jerome Kitzke, Carmen Moore. A series of concerts featuring her music with Allen Ginsberg reading his poetry took place at Naropa Institute in Colorado.

Wendy Luck has won numerous awards for her compositions and can be found in Scott Yanow’s book, The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide. Ms. Luck received her BFA with Honors in Flute Performance from the University of Wisconsin, MA in Composition, Performance, and Multimedia and PhD in Music Composition and Performance both from NYU.

Continual research in music and healing inspired her masters thesis entitled The Therapeutic and Healing Effects of Music and Sound. Luck’s highly regarded and innovative dissertation entitled Flute, Voice, Muse, and Multimedia: Creating a Work of Performance Art, is a comprehensive and visionary work available through UMI Publishing.

“Her music has a strengthening energy for contact with the Divine Mind.”~ J.J. Hurtak, PhD, Author of The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch