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Art Lande (born February 5, 1947 in New York City , New York ) is an American jazz pianist , drummer , composer and teacher.

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Art Lande grew up on Long Island and began playing classical piano at the age of five. His father, a jazz pianist, was friends with Teddy Wilson and introduced him to the music of Dizzy Gillespies , Oscar Peterson and Sarah Vaughans at an early age .

He went to San Francisco in 1969 and later to Berkeley . There Lande founded a formation with the drummer Glenn Cronkhite , the saxophonist Mel Martin and the bassist Eliot Zigmund , with whom he performed at the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival . In the same year he recorded with Ted Curson and Janne Schaffer and released his first album with his own compositions for ECM Records, where he played in a duo with saxophonist and flutist Jan Garbarek . The title of the album, Red Lanta , was an anagram of his name, which he was to use more often in the titles of his compositions.

In 1976, Lande formed the Rubisa Patrol quartet with trumpeter Mark Isham, bassist Bill Douglass and Glenn Cronkhite. This was later replaced by Kurt Wortmann . Rubisa Patrol played both jazz standards and original compositions. They played in the Bay Area of ​​San Francisco and toured Europe often. The group recorded two albums for ECM: Rubisa Patrol (1976) and Desert Marauders (1977). Then the band released a third album, The Story Of Ba-Ku (1978), on a Californian label. Lande also worked with Paul McCandless , Gary Peacock and Dave Samuels .

Since the early 1980s, Lande concentrated more on teaching. He initially taught at the Cornish Institute in Seattle . After 1983, Lande worked in Switzerland for three years , teaching at the jazz school in St. Gallen . In 1987 he went to Boulder, Colorado to teach at Naropa University . In addition, since then, Lande has played with local musicians in addition to teaching. Lande has also been playing drums in various groups since the mid-1990s.

Art Lande is considered a brilliant pianist in the tradition of Bill Evans ( Down Beat ) and convinces with his set of impressionistic chamber music for a quartet , in which he created an atmosphere of nocturnal silence . Lande earned his reputation in Europe through his brief liaison with the jazz label ECM , for which he recorded three albums under his own name between 1973 and 1981 and accompanied Jan Garbarek and Mark Isham on their ECM albums during this time.

Selection discography

As a leader

  • 1973 - Red Lanta (ECM) with Jan Garbarek
  • 1976 - Rubisa Patrol (ECM) with Mark Isham, Bill Douglas, Glenn Cronkite
  • 1977 - Desert Marauders
  • 1980 - The Story of BA-KU (1750 Arch Street Rec.)
  • 1981 - Skylight (ECM) with Dave Samuels

Solo albums

Lande also recorded several solo piano albums of his compositions, such as

  • The Eccentricities of Earl Dant (another anagram, 1977)
  • Hardball! (1987)
  • Melissa Spins Away (1987)
  • Friday the Thirteenth (with 13 Thelonious Monk compositions, 1996)

As a sideman / co-leader

  • 1979 - Paul McCandless Trio: All The Mornings Bring (Elektra)
  • 1980 - Shift in the wind - with Gary Peacock (Columbia)
  • 1987 - Mark Isham & Art Lande: We Begin (ECM)
  • 1992 - Nguyên Lê : Zanzibar (Musidisc)
  • 2004 - Ullmann / Dahlgren / Lande: The Blue Nixe ( between the lines )
  • 2012 - Art Lande / Dave Peterson: Polar Opposites

Teaching

  • Private tuition, San Francisco & Berkeley (1970–1977)
  • Lone Mountain College, San Francisco (1978–1979)
  • Cornish Institute, Seattle (1979–1983)
  • San Jose State College, San Jose, California (1983–1984)
  • Jazz School of Migros Klubschule, St. Gallen, Switzerland (1984–1987)
  • Jazz School Lausanne, Switzerland (1986–1987)
  • Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado (1987-1999)

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ cit. according to Kunzler, p. 678
  2. ↑ cit. after Cook & Morton, p. 878 f.
personal data
SURNAME Land, Art
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City