Ann Malcolm
Ann Malcolm (born March 25, 1964 in Belle Plaine , Iowa ) is an American jazz singer and classical saxophonist .
Live and act
Malcolm played the piano from the age of five, and when she was ten she switched to the saxophone. She studied saxophone up to a bachelor's degree at the University of Iowa and completed her master's degree at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Ran Blake . During this time she attended singing workshops with Sheila Jordan and had lessons with Helen Merrill in New York City . She formed a duo with the New York guitarist Paul Meyers. After moving to Europe, she continued her saxophone studies at the Music Academy of the City of Basel in the concert class of Iwan Roth and her vocal training with Jacob Keller in Bern, Eva Csapó and Eva Krasznai in Basel. Malcolm sang with the Peter Jacques Band, the Alex Bally Orchestra, Stage Four, the Victor Burghardt Orchestra, the Vince Benedetti Tentet and the Heritage Big Band. In 1992 she performed with the Trio Cojazz ( Andy Scherrer , Isla Eckinger and Peter Schmidlin ) at the Montreux Jazz Festival ; with this group she also played other albums. With Kenny Barron she recorded the album Incident'ly with Rudy Van Gelder , which was included in the selection of the ten best vocal recordings in Japan in 1994. From 1996 she led her own band with Robi Lakatos as well as changing rhythm groups , which were expanded to a quintet with Reggie Johnson or Bänz Oester , Keith Copeland , John Betsch or Julio Barreto , which was partly expanded with Andy Scherrer. She also recorded with Renato Anselmi , Thomas Moeckel , Ákos Holéczy and the Ten in One Orchestra .
Malcolm has been teaching saxophone at the Arlesheim Music School since 1984 and is regularly engaged as a saxophonist by classical orchestras in Switzerland and Germany. In addition to her work as a singing teacher in Basel at the Basel Jazz School, in 2007 she started teaching as a professor of jazz singing at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts .
Discographic notes
- Cojazz Featuring Ann Malcolm - Invitation (with Peter Schmidlin, Andy Scherrer and Isla Eckinger; TCB , 1989)
- Incident'ly (with Kenny Barron, Andy Scherrer, Don Sickler , Ray Drummond , Keith Copeland; Sound Hills 1993)
- Shadows Who Dance ( Mons 2007)
- The Crystall Paperweight (with Tom Harrell , Domenic Landolf , Andy Scherrer, Colin Vallon , Alejandro Rutkaskaus, Daniel Pezzotti , Patrice Moret , Wolfgang Zwiauer, Dejan Terzic ; Abeat 2010)
- Ann Malcolm / Florian Favre Essence (Mons 2014)
Lexigraphic entries
- Bruno Spoerri (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz CD supplement to: Spoerri, Bruno (Hrsg.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories . Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ann Malcolm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Biographical data in the music database of Radio Swiss Jazz , accessed on April 26, 2017
- ↑ The Wanderer of Arlesheim
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| SURNAME | Malcolm, Ann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz singer and saxophonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belle Plaine , Iowa |