Ellen Seeling

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Ellen Seeling (* 1950 ) is an American jazz trumpeter (also flugelhorn ) and director of the Mountclair Women's Bigband .

Live and act

Seeling grew up in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Originally she wanted to learn the drums, then the violin. Due to the high school offer, however, she decided on the trumpet, the instrument her father also played and who introduced her to jazz. In 1969 she began studying jazz at Indiana University , where she studied with David Baker and became the first woman to graduate. Then she moved to New York City , where she worked with Sister Sledge , Slide Hampton , The Temptations , Paquito D'Rivera , Joe Cocker , Cornell Dupree , Isis , Ben E. King , Martha Reeves , the Jazz Sisters around Jill McManus and the Orchestra worked by Thad Jones / Mel Lewis .

Together with Jean Fineberg , she founded the fusion jazz band Deuce in 1980 , which moved to San Francisco in 1989 . Seeling also accompanies Phoebe Snow and Patti LaBelle there . In 1998, Seeling founded the Montclair Women's Big Band , led by her , in which high-profile musicians from the San Francisco region work together; the band presented an album of the same name in 2005, which was featured by Cadence magazine.

Seeling taught jazz trumpet at the University of California, Berkeley , but also at the Berkeley Jazz School. Since 2009 she has also directed the national Girls' Jazz & Blues Camp there .

Discographic notes

  • Deuce (with Jean Fineberg, Julie Homi, Mark Gray, Mark Soskin , Mario E. Sprouse, Daniel Carillo, Barry Finnerty, Paul Livant, Emily Remler , Seth Glassman, Frank Gravis, Kim Plainfield, Ray Marchica, Terry Silverlight, Nydia Liberty Mata , Ellen Uryevick, Laura Theodore, Teresa Trull, Carol McDonald 1986)
  • Deuce WindJammer (with Steve Erquiaga, Jean Fineberg, Frank Martin, Joel Smith, Ray Obledo, 1996)
  • Mountclair Women's Bigband (2005)

literature

  • Leslie Gourse Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists Oxford University Press, New York 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b David Baker David Baker's Jazz Pedagogy: A Comprehensive Method of Jazz Education for Teacher and Student Music Workshop Publications 1969 p. 25
personal data
SURNAME Seeling, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1950