Jeanette Wrate
Jeanette Wrate Kangas is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( drums , percussion , also gongs , melodica , vibraphone , vocals ) and music teacher .
Live and act
Wrate received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in 1984 and has played in the jazz scene in the San Francisco Bay Area a . a. with Charlie Haden , Holly Hofmann , Glenn Horiuchi , Stacy Rowles ( Monterey Jazz Festival 1988) and Michael Vlatkovich , and 1985 with Dizzy Gillespie and Jimmy Witherspoon . In 1990 she toured Europe with the Big World Jazz Trio . She taught marimba and vibraphone in the percussion department at Harbor College and El Camino College from 1987 to 2006, currently at San Diego State University . In the field of jazz, Wrate participated in 14 recording sessions between 1988 and 2008. Under her own name, she and her Northern Lights Ensemble recorded the album Echoes of a Northern Sky ( Cryptogramophone ) in 1996 , which was preceded by Somewhere Between Here and There (Nine Winds) in 1993 . Wrate lives in San Diego.
Web links
- Web presence
- Jeanette Wrate at Allmusic (English)
- Jeanette Wrate at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Liner Notes from the album Hilltop View by Glenn Horiuchi
- ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wrate, Jeanette |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kangas, Jeanette; Kangas Wrate, Jeanette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |