LeeAnn Ledgerwood

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LeeAnn Ledgerwood (born May 10, 1959 in Warren , Ohio ) is an American jazz pianist , composer and music teacher .

Live and act

Ledgerwood began playing the piano when he was four. She initially trained in classical music with Grant Johanessen and studied music at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She continued her studies ( improvisation ) at North Texas State University ; After graduating from Berklee College of Music , she moved to New York in 1980 at the age of twenty, where she worked in local clubs such as Bradley’s . She toured Sweden with Red Mitchell , married Richie Beirach and was a member of the ensemble of bassist Eddie Gomez ( Power Play, 1988), who also played on her debut album You Wish (1991). She also worked with Jeremy Steig (her second husband), saxophonist Bill Evans and Danny Gottlieb . In 2003, she joined Marian McPartland NPR telecast Piano Jazz on. During her career she also played with Michael Brecker , Attila Zoller , Michael Formanek , Harvie Swartz and Jeff Williams . She also wrote film music . She has been teaching at the Mannes College of Music and at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music since 1992.

Marian McPartland counts Ledgerwood along with Geri Allen to the best pianists of our time.

Discographic notes

literature

  • Leslie Gourse : Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists . Oxford University Press 1995, pp. 160-165

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The New Yorker. Volume 65, 1989
  2. ^ New York, Volume 26, 1993
  3. ^ Marian McPartland: Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time. P. 13
personal data
SURNAME Ledgerwood, LeeAnn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ledgerwood Steig, LeeAnn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Warren , Ohio