Joanne Grauer

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Joanne Grauer (* 1939 in Los Angeles ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , synthesizer , composition ).

Act

Grauer comes from a musical family: her father was a pianist and taught her the basics of piano playing; her brother played first double bass with the New Orleans Symphony . She received piano lessons from the nuns of a parish school and several piano teachers, including John Mehegan at the Juilliard School of Music . As a teenager, she had the opportunity to record a first album in July 1957. In Los Angeles she was quite successful as a pianist, composer and studio musician for film and television. She also accompanied Andy Williams , Ellen Burstyn , The Lennon Sisters , Michael Feinstein and Juliet Prowse . She also worked with Gábor Szabó , Louie Bellson , Al Cohn and Zoot Sims . She also trained actors like Clint Eastwood , Ellen Burstyn or Audrey Hepburn for film roles in which they appeared as pianists.

But it wasn't until 1974 that another album was released on a largely unknown label. Her supposedly first commercially released album as the leader of her own combo, which appeared in 1978 on the German label MPS , was re-released in 2018; Gilles Peterson rated it as an "exceptional album". In 1986, she worked as a pianist in the film 9½ Weeks from Adrian Lyne to experience; she was also heard in the documentary film Lady Sings the Blues . A duo album with guitarist Art Johnson was last released in the late 1980s. Tom Lord recorded seven recordings between 1957 and 2011, most recently on the album Play It Again Sam - Jim Doval Featuring the Jazz Piano Artistry of Lady Joanne Grauer . She can also be heard on albums by Stanley Turrentine , Lincoln Mayorga and Dave Pell .

Discographic notes

literature

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Leonard Feather Original Liner Notes, in: Joanne Grauer: Introducing Lorraine Feather (Supplement to the 2018 CD edition)
  2. ^ A b c Carolyn Glenn Brewer Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival, 1978-1985 , p. 171
  3. ^ A b Leslie Gourse Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists , p. 232
  4. ↑ Peterson on Joanne Grauer: Introducing Lorraine Feather
  5. ^ Filmographic information (Library of Congress)
  6. ↑ Flyer
  7. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography
personal data
SURNAME Grauer, Joanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano, synthesizer, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles