Dominique Eade

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Dominique Frances Eade (born June 16, 1958 in Ruislip , England ) is an American jazz singer , pianist, music teacher, songwriter and composer .

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Dominique Eade is the daughter of a US Air Force officer and a Swiss woman. She grew up alternately in the United States and Europe; as a child she took piano lessons and as a teenager she learned to play guitar, played folk , pop and jazz songs and wrote her own songs. She had her first appearances in cafes in Stuttgart , where she attended high school. She then moved to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie , where she studied English . She also sang there in the jazz formation Naima , which Joe McPhee also belonged to. She moved to Berklee College of Music for a brief period and graduated from the New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston , where pianist Ran Blake became an important mentor and colleague.

After completing her studies, she taught at the NEC and was also active in the city's local jazz scene. She worked u. a. with Mick Goodrick , Donald Brown and Bill Pierce . She has also performed in the United States and Europe, where she also participated in workshops. In addition to jazz, she was also an interpreter of contemporary music and performed as a soloist in the formations Boston Musica Viva, Composers in Red Sneakers and NuClassix . Eade also performed with the jazz bands Orange Then Blue and the Either / Orchestra . In 1987 she became the first female jazz artist to study with Dave Holland and Stanley Cowell as part of the NEC Artist Diploma program .

In 1990 she moved to New York City , where her first solo album was soon created, The Ruby and the Pearl , on which Alan Dawson and Stanley Cowell played. In addition to her work in New York, she continued to teach at the NEC in Boston and appeared in two operas by Anthony Braxton , as well as a duo with a trio of Gene Bertoncini , Ben Street and Kenny Wollesen , with whom she appeared in the East Village Mark Helias and Peter Leitch . It was followed by engagements in The Village Gate , Five Spot , Birdland , Visiones and Cornelia Street Cafe , where they by musicians like Ira Coleman , Larry Goldings , John Medeski , Fred Hersch , Kevin Hays , James Genus , Gregory Hutchinson and Tom Rainey was accompanied . She then recorded a second album with Bruce Barth , George Mraz and Lewis Nash , My Resistance is Low .

Before returning to Boston in 1996, Eade signed a recording deal with RCA Records , for which she recorded two more albums, When the Wind Was Cool (a tribute album to June Christy and Chris Connor , with Benny Golson , Fred Hersch, James Genus, and Matt Wilson ), as well as The Long Way Home (with Dave Holland and Victor Lewis ), for which she also wrote and arranged her own songs.

She then toured the US and Europe; However, to take care of her family more, she soon limited herself to performing in the Boston area and working as a composer. In 2001 she recorded some songs for Columbia Records . In 2006 she recorded additional material with pianist Jed Wilson, who was her student at the NEC ( Open ). Eade then performed again in New York with Ran Blake in a duo, then with Jed Wilson, Ben Street, Matt Wilson in a quartet line-up, and in a duo with guitarist Brad Shepik .

Eade lives in Boston with her husband, saxophonist Allan Chase , and their two sons.

Awards

Dominique Eade has been awarded the Boston Music Awards several times from 1988; In 1998 she won the Down Beat critics poll as “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” among the singers . Their album, My Resistance Is Low , featured Billboard as one of the Top Ten Jazz CDs of 1995.

Discographic notes

  • The Ruby and the Pearl ( Accurate Records , 1990)
  • My Resistance is Low (Accurate Records, 1994)
  • When the Wind Was Cool (RCA, 1997)
  • The Long Way Home (RCA, 1998)
  • Dominique Eade / Jed Wilson: Open (Jazz Project, 2006)
  • Ran Blake / Dominique Eade: Whirlpool (2011)
  • Dominique Eade / Ran Blake: Town and Country (Sunnyside, 2017)

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SURNAME Eade, Dominique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eade, Dominique Frances
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruislip , England