Laurie Frink

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Laurie Frink (born August 8, 1951 in Pender , Nebraska ; † July 13, 2013 ) was an American musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn ) and music teacher who emerged in the field of classical music and jazz .

Life

Frink, who was forced to take piano lessons by her mother, switched to the flugelhorn in order to be able to participate in the school band. She studied music education at the University of Nebraska because the college did not allow women to study as an instrumentalist. She performed at the Aspen Music Festival , only to decide in 1971 to continue her education in New York City with Jimmy Maxwell and Carmine Caruso . First she worked as a theater musician in various Broadway shows and brass ensembles, such as the Manhattan Brass Quintet , the Saturday Brass Quintet and the Gramercy Park Brass . Since the late 1970s she played in the big bands of Gerry Mulligan , Benny Goodman (1986), Mel Lewis , Bob Mintzer , Maria Schneider , Andrew Hill , Dave Liebman , Kit McClure and Kenny Wheeler . She also worked in Rita Harlow 's women's band Latin Fever . In the field of jazz, she was involved in 69 recording sessions between 1980 and 2011; in addition to the aforementioned also with Darcy James Argue , Satoko Fujii , John Hollenbeck , TS Monk and Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans project Centennial - Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans and outside of jazz with David Bowie and the Talking Heads ( Naked ).

She has taught the Carmine Caruso Method at the Manhattan School of Music since 2002 , and she has also taught at the New School for Social Research, SUNY Purchase, SUNY Stony Brook, New York University , Westchester Conservatory, Harbor Junior High School for Performing Arts and at the Mile High Jazz Camp. Her students include a. Ingrid Jensen .

literature

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notice of death from Kim Macari
  2. ^ W. Royal Stokes: Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives . 2005, p. 29
  3. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
  4. ↑ Portrait at the Manhattan School of Music ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.msmnyc.edu
  5. ↑ Wayne Enstice, Janis Stockhouse: Jazz Women: Conversations with Twenty-One Musicians . Volume 1. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. p. 152
personal data
SURNAME Frink, Laurie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Pender (Nebraska)
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 2013