Erica Lindsay
Erica Lindsay (* 5. June 1955 in San Francisco ) is an American jazz - saxophonist and composer .
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Erica Lindsay's parents, both teachers, lived in Europe in the 1960s. She began studying composition with Mal Waldron in Munich when she was fifteen and went to school there. During this time she first played the clarinet and later the alto and tenor saxophone. In 1973 she studied for a year at the Berklee School of Music in Boston and then returned to Europe, where she began her musical career and toured with her own quartet; since then she has also worked as a composer, arranger and soloist. In 1979 she performed with the Unique Munich Saxophone Choir ( Roman Schwaller , Frank St. Peter , Leszek Zadlo , Roger Janotta , Thomas Faist and Joe Nay ) at the Donaueschinger Musiktage .
She has lived in New York since 1980 , where she wrote music for television ( Tales from the Darkside ), video and ballet. Since then she has worked as a saxophonist a. a. with Melba Liston , Clifford Jordan , Dizzy Gillespie , McCoy Tyner , Reggie Workman , George Gruntz and Pheeroan akLaff . Lindsay has also composed for theater, television and dance productions and has worked with poets and performance artists such as Carl Hancock-Rux, Janice King, Janine Vega, Mikhail Horowitz and Nancy Ostrovsky. In 1989 she wrote her debut album Dreamer for the Candid Records label ; participating musicians were u. a. Robin Eubanks , Howard Johnson , Francesca Tanksley and Anthony Cox . She was also a member of the female-only sextet UJC Big Apple Jazzwomen , directed by Sharon Freeman . She leads her own quartet and is co-leader of a quartet with Sumi Tonooka.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Lindsay played with Oliver Lake , Baikida Carroll , Howard Johnson , Jeff Siegel, Thurman Barker and the San Francisco-based formation Trace Elements . She also released an album by her quartet in 2008, Yes / Live at the Rosendale Cafe . She can also be heard on a duo album with Ricky Carter ( Soulcatcher ), two albums by Trace Elements (Parallel Universe and Live at Bruno's ); In addition, a first CD of their joint quartet with pianist Sumi Tonooka was released under the title Initiation . Erica Lindsay is also a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Music on the Music Faculty program at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson (New York) .
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette . 2nd Edition. Penguin, London 1994, ISBN 0-14-017949-6 .
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| SURNAME | Lindsay, Erica |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th June 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |