Claire Daly
Claire Daly (* 26. February 1959 ) is an American jazz - Baritonsaxophonistin (including soprano , alto and tenor saxophone , flute , clarinet and bass clarinet ).
Life
Daly began playing the saxophone at the age of twelve. She studied at Berklee College of Music , she also played in the Diva Jazz Orchestra for seven years and accompanied vocalists such as Aretha Franklin , James Brown , Joe Williams and Rosemary Clooney . She then worked as a freelance musician in New York City; u. a. she worked with Joel Forrester in the band project People Like Us and was a member of Joe Fonda's formation Bottoms Out . Taj Mahal brought her into the horn section for his album Like Never Before (1991). In 2009 she played in Warren Smith 's Composers Workshop Ensemble ( Old News Borrowed Blues ). In 2011 Daly realized the concept album Mary Joyce Project: Nothing To Lose, dedicated to her father's cousin . Currently (2019) she leads a quartet that includes Bruce Barth and Jon Davis (piano), Marcus McLaurine (bass) and Peter Grant (drums).
Awards
In the category Rising Star she was awarded from 2003 to 2011 in the Critics' Poll of the Down Beat , but also in the Down Beat Reader's Poll (2006-2011) and the JazzTimes Reader's Poll (2005-2011). In 2005 she won the JJA Award ( Baritoneist of the Year ) from the American Jazz Journalists Association .
Discographic notes
- Swing Low (1999)
- Movin 'On (Koch, 2002), with James Zollar
- Heaven Help Us All (2004)
- 2 Sisters, Inc - Scaribari (2007), with Dave Sewelson , David Hofstra
- Baritone Monk (2012), with Steve Hudson, Mary Ann McSweeney , Peter Grant
literature
- Leslie Gourse Madame Jazz. Contemporary Women Instrumentalists Oxford University Press 1995, ISBN 0-19-508696-1
Web links
- Web presence
- Interview saxwelt
- Claire Daly at Allmusic (English)
- Portrait at All About Jazz (English)
- Claire Daly at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daily Dose of Jazz
- ↑ Lloyd Sachs: Claire Daly Quintet - Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose (2011) in JazzTimes
- ↑ Claire Daly. Smalls, February 16, 2019, accessed February 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Nominations for the JJA Awards 2012
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Daly, Claire |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1959 |