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{{Short description|American jazz musician and composer}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Cindy Bradley
| image = 2020-01-19 Cindy =Bradley 0415.jpg
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| landscape =
| alt = Young woman playing a flumpet – a hybrid of a trumpet and a flugelhorn
| caption = Bradley in = 2020
| backgroundbirth_name = Cindy Lynn = non_vocal_instrumentalistBradley
| birth_name native_name = Cindy Lynn Bradley
| native_name_lang =
| native_name =
| native_name_langalias = =
| aliasbirth_date = {{birth date and = age|1977|12|11}}
| PLACEbirth_place OF BIRTH = [[North Tonawanda]], New York▼
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|12|11}}
| birth_placeorigin = [[North Tonawanda]], New York=
| origin death_date =
| death_date death_place =
| death_placegenre = [[Smooth jazz]], contemporary jazz
| genre occupation = [[Smooth jazz]],Musician contemporaryand jazzcomposer
| occupation instrument = Musician andTrumpet, composer[[flugelhorn]]
| years_active = 2005–present
| instrument = Trumpet, [[flugelhorn]], [[flumpet]]
| years_activelabel = Trippin' N' Rhythm 2005–presentRecords
| associated_acts = ▼
| label = Trippin' N' Rhythm Records▼
| website = ={{url|cindybradley.com}}▼
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}}▼
▲| website ={{url|cindybradley.com}}
 
| notable_instruments = [[flumpet]]
}}'''Cindy Lynn Bradley''' (born December 11, 1977) is an American [[smooth jazz]] [[trumpet]] and [[flugelhorn]] player and composer – although her signature instrument on stage has tended to become a bright metallic pink hybrid of both instruments known as a [[flumpet]].
 
==Early life==
Bradley was born in [[North Tonawanda]] in upstate [[New York (state)|New York]]. She already played [[piano]], but picked up her first trumpet by accident at age nine because it was the only available instrument which she recognized in her teacher's list for school band classes. She began playing [[traditional jazz]] trumpet as a schoolgirl and went on to gainearn degrees in jazz studies at [[Ithaca College]] in New York state and in jazz trumpet performance at the [[New England Conservatory]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref name="auto">Interview with Cindy Bradley, July 3, 2013. {{Where|date=December 2024}}</ref>
 
==Career==
Bradley released her debut album ''Just Aa Little Bit'' on her own label in 2007. In 2009, she signed with Les Cutmore's Trippin' N' Rhythm Records and recorded her second, ''Bloom'', with [[Grammy Award]]-winning producer Michael Broening at his studio in [[Phoenix, Arizona]]. ''Bloom'' won instant critical acclaim and Bradley followed it in 2011 with ''Unscripted''. The hit single from that album, "Massive Transit", co-written by Bradley and Broening, remained at No. 1 on the US [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] Smooth Jazz Songs chart for six weeks.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/2011-09-24/jazz-songs Retrieved|title=Smooth Jazz Airplay |website=Billboard.com |access-date=July 13, 2013.}}</ref> ''Unscripted'' itself topped the Billboard Jazz Albums chart for two weeks.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/2011-07-16/jazz-albums Retrieved|title=Jazz Albums |website=Billboard.com |access-date=July 13, 2013.}}</ref>
 
Often labelled as a [[smooth jazz]] artist – although some critics have found her difficult to categorise at all – Bradley cites her major influences in jazz as fellow- trumpet players [[Freddie Hubbard]], [[Lee Morgan]], and [[Blue Mitchell]]. When she is not touring or playing at jazz festivals, she works as a public elementary school band teacher in [[New Jersey]].<ref>Interview with Cindy Bradley July 3, 2013.<name="auto"/ref> InShe Augustis 2013,a Bradleylongtime married[[vegan]] Newand York[[animal City saxophonist Danrights]] Ciprianoadvocate.▼
 
Bradley's sixth solo album, ''The Little Things'', was released in May 2019 and her seventh, ''Promise'', in July 2023.
▲Often labelled as a [[smooth jazz]] artist – although some critics have found her difficult to categorise at all – Bradley cites her major influences in jazz as fellow-trumpet players [[Freddie Hubbard]], [[Lee Morgan]] and [[Blue Mitchell]]. When she is not touring or playing at jazz festivals, she works as a public elementary school band teacher in [[New Jersey]].<ref>Interview with Cindy Bradley July 3, 2013.</ref> In August 2013, Bradley married New York City saxophonist Dan Cipriano.
 
==Awards==
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==Discography==
'''As leader'''
* 2007 ''Just Aa Little Bit'' (CB Jazz Music)
* 2009 ''Bloom'' (Trippin' N' Rhythm Records)
* 2011 ''Unscripted'' (Trippin' N' Rhythm Records)
* 2014 ''Bliss'' (Trippin' N' Rhythm Records)
▲|* label2017 ''Natural'' = (Trippin' N' Rhythm Records)
* 2019 ''The Little Things'' (Trippin' N' Rhythm Records)
* 2023 ''Promise'' (Trippin' N' Rhythm Records)
 
'''As sidewoman'''
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==External links==
* [http://www.cindybradley.com Official Websitewebsite]
* Trippin' N' Rhythm Records http://www.trippinmusic.com/#/home/
 
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| NAME = Bradley, Cindy
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Bradley, Cindy Lynn
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Jazz trumpet, flugelhorn and flumpet player and composer
| DATE OF BIRTH = 1977-12-11
▲| PLACE OF BIRTH = North Tonawanda, New York
| DATE OF DEATH =
| PLACE OF DEATH =
▲}}
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[[Category:American jazz trumpeters]]▼
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1977 births]]
[[Category:SmoothLiving jazz trumpeterspeople]]
[[Category:MusiciansAmerican fromjazz New Yorktrumpeters]]
[[Category:Ithaca College alumni]]
[[Category:Jazz musicians from New York (state)]]
[[Category:New England Conservatory alumni]]
[[Category:People from North Tonawanda, New York]]
▲[[Category:AmericanSmooth jazz trumpeters]]
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