Brandee Younger

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Brandee Younger (right, with Dezron Douglas at the 2013 Harlem Arts Festival)

Brandee Younger (born July 1, 1983 in Hempstead , New York ) is an American jazz musician ( harp , composition ) who is also active in musical areas such as rhythm & blues , hip-hop and classical music . "With Brandee Younger at the helm, the instrument gains a little soul as she takes care of the musical legacy of harpists like Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane and breathes new life into his repertoire with her own compositions," wrote The New Yorker .

Live and act

Younger grew up in Hempstead and Uniondale . She first studied at the University of Hartford , where she earned a bachelor's degree in harp playing and music management. She completed her master's degree in music interpretation and composition at the Steinhardt School of New York University . In New York she worked from the mid-2000s a. a. with Ravi Coltrane , Camille Thurman , Marcus Strickland , Jeremy Pelt , Jane Monheit , Robert Glasper , Christian McBride , Makaya McCraven ( Universal Beings , 2018), also with the formation Brooklyn Raga Massive ( Coltrane Raga Tribute ) and with the Brian Landrus Orchestra.

Younger also ran her own brand, Younger 4Tet . After her debut EP Prelude and a live album ( Live at the Breeding Ground ), she released the album Wax & Wane (Disk Union) in 2017 ; He followed her participation in the compilation A Day in the Life: Impressions of Pepper (2018) and (self-published 2019) the production Soul Awakening , in which u. a. Chelsea Baratz, Ravi Coltrane, Sean Jones , Dezron Douglas , Antoine Roney , EJ Strickland and Corey Wilcox contributed. The album received positive reviews on National Public Radio and The New Yorker . In the field of jazz, she was involved in 18 recording sessions between 2006 and 2019, including with Makaya McCraven ( Universal Beings , 2018).

Her (compositional) work is influenced by Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby. Younger teaches at Adelphi University , Hartt School and Greenwich House Music School. In 2019 she was nominated for the JJA Award of the Jazz Journalists Association in the category rarely played instruments . In the Down Beat Critics Poll 2020, she was the winner as a rising star in the same category.

Discographic notes

  • Live at the Breeding Ground (2014), with Stacy Dillard , Chelsea Baratz, Dezron Douglas, EJ Strickland
  • Wax and Wane (Disk Union, 2017, with Chelsea Baratz, Dezron Douglas, Mark Whitfield )
  • Soul Awakening (2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brandee Younger Manifests Her Own Vision of the Harp's Potential. > The New Yorker, May 20, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 19, 2020)
  3. ↑ a b Brandee Younger Plucks And Shimmers A 'Soul Awakening'. National Public Radio , May 30, 2019, accessed July 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Review (Dave Sumner)
personal data
SURNAME Younger, Brandee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Hempstead , New York