Laurel Lovecraft

Blue-eyed soulful piano jazz with a little bit of magic.

The universe is made of Strange & Charm!
                                                                 --Laurel Lovecraft

What if Stevie Nicks learned piano from Bill Evans? Laurel Lovecraft writes blue-eyed soulful piano jazz with a little bit of magic. She has a Ph.D. in physics and unites these two sides with thoughtful passionate performance. (Strange and charm are two kinds of quarks, the building blocks of matter.)

Her first release, December Starry Night, has been described as "moody composition with some beautiful jazz flavours," by pianist, Mathias Kreft.  December Starry Night “has inner movement and melodies like a classical piece,” says Dr. Silvana Santinelli, pianist of Duo Francois.

The day after recording Enchanted First Snow, it snowed here in Boulder, Colorado! How magical! This song follows snow’s emotions from small white flakes wafting gently through space like tiny falling stars to heavy wet blankets of snow falling suddenly off a roof!  The single will be released before Thanksgiving, 2018, and will then be available everywhere.

Laurel Lovecraft has an eclectic background including 6 university degrees! She has a Ph.D. in laser physics, three science and engineering master’s degrees, and bachelor’s degrees in physics and jazz piano. Professionally, she has worked on atmospheric laser communication, data science, optical imagery through turbulence, and student learning in physics. She began piano lessons in third grade because she thought that all music was improvised and wanted to learn how. Imagine the collective synergy needed to perform a symphony!

She is heavily influenced by solo jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, whose virtuosic technique and soulful Gospel passages held her spell bound. She also resonates with the magical, powerful, female vibe of Stevie Nicks, reminding Lovecraft of her ancestor who was executed in the Salem Witch Trials in 1693 near Boston, MA.

Laurel Lovecraft wants to live in a world where science and magic can coexist. She inspires those who feel like they are different to embrace their weird, to find their voice and live their dreams!