Marilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell (born March 30, 1947 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American pianist and performer-composer of modern creative and new improvisation music . She is considered one of the central pianists in these genres. Cecil Taylor , with whom she is often compared, praised her for not compromising and characterized her style as new lyricism .
Live and act
Crispell, who had piano lessons from the age of seven, later studied classical piano at the Peabody Music School in Baltimore and then until graduation in 1968 classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music . After a few years as a housewife and in a medical profession, she discovered jazz music through recordings by John Coltrane , Cecil Taylor and other contemporary jazz musicians such as Paul Bley and Leo Smith . She has lived in Woodstock , New York, since 1977 , where she continued her education and then also taught at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio . She visited Europe for the first time in 1978 with the Creative Music Orchestra and made her record debut in 1981 with the latter's recording of Anthony Braxton's Composition 98 . She was a member of Braxton's quartet for more than ten years; in addition, solo projects appeared at an early stage, which were documented with the albums Rhythms Hung In Undrawn Sky (1983) and Concert In Berlin (1983). She worked with Jeanne Lee in the Reggie Workman Ensemble . After frequent guest stays with the London Composers Orchestra , she works as a member of the Barry Guy New Orchestra and the Henry Grimes Trio, but also in the Quartet Noir (with Urs Leimgruber , Fritz Hauser and Joëlle Léandre ). She also records with Anders Jormins Bortom Quintet, in a trio with Lotte Anker and Marilyn Mazur and in a duo with David Rothenberg and Gary Peacock ( Azure , ECM 2013). In Vancouver she worked in 2005 with the NOW Orchestra and in 2006 in the direction of the Vancouver Creative Music Institute , but also at the Banff Center International Workshop in Jazz .
Crispell appears as a soloist and with her own groups. She has also performed as an interpreter of the music of contemporary composers and has recorded works by John Cage , Pauline Oliveros , Robert Cogan, Pozzi Escot, Manfred Niehaus and Anthony Davis on phonograms. She has also conducted improvisation workshops and lectures at universities and centers in the USA, Europe, Canada and New Zealand. Crispell has also worked across media with video artists, filmmakers, dancers and poets.
Prizes and awards
In 1981 she was voted New Star by the Down Beat critics .
literature
- Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
- Wayne Enstice, Janis Stockhouse Jazz Women , Indiana University Press 2004.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crispell, Marilyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pianist and performer-composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |