Joëlle Léandre
Joëlle Léandre (born September 12, 1951 in Aix-en-Provence , France ) is a French double bass player who has emerged both as an interpreter of new music and above all as an improvisation musician (partly also in jazz). She is considered an extremely versatile instrumentalist. "On the four strings of the instrument and with the fifth, which she defines her mezzo voice as, the musician, who is also active in literature, creates total works of art that aim at the simultaneity of opposites according to the principle of literary collage."
Live and act
Leandre had recorder and piano lessons as a child and began playing her brother's double bass at the age of ten; later a bass teacher bequeathed his instrument to her. She went to Paris to study classical music and in 1976 received a first prize at the Conservatoire de Paris . As a student she discovered both jazz and new music and was a member of Pierre Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain . She then continued her studies with a scholarship at the Center for creative and performing arts in Buffalo a. a. with John Cage , Morton Feldman and Giacinto Scelsi . She works both in the field of new composed and improvised music . Composers such as Earle Brown , John Cage and Giacinto Scelsi have written works for them. She began to give solo concerts; on her debut album »Contrebassiste« (1981) she presented her own compositions and improvisations on recorded tapes. As an improviser, she has worked with Derek Bailey , George Lewis , Susie Ibarra , Anthony Braxton and Annick Nozati, among others . Since the early 1990s she has been playing with Irène Schweizer and the singer Maggie Nicols in the trio Les Diaboliques that emerged from the context of the Feminist Improvising Group . She forms the Quartet Noir with Marilyn Crispell on piano , Urs Leimgruber on saxophones and Fritz Hauser on drums . In 2005 she was honored as Artist in Residence at the Jazz Festival in Le Mans . She forms a double bass duo with Sebastian Gramss .
Your music is documented on more than 150 sound carriers . As an author, she has published A voix basse (2009) and the volume of poetry Caraque (1993).
literature
- Francesco Martinelli Joëlle Léandre: Discography Bandecchi & Vivaldi, 2002.
- Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 ; also published as a special volume of the digital library, Directmedia Publishing Berlin 2005: ISBN 3-89853-018-3 .
Web links
- Web presence with bibliography, selection discography and catalog raisonné
- Complete discography including photographs, audio samples etc. on "European Free Improvisation Pages"
- J. Léandre on Freedom and Responsibility (English)
- Interview (2002)
- Joëlle Léandre: Open letter by Joëlle Léandre to accuse the organizers of French Jazz Awards for lack of gender diversity and mainstream choices. The Free Jazz Collective, December 17, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Kunzler Jazz Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Léandre, Joëlle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French double bass player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aix-en-Provence |