Lesli Dalaba

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Lesli Dalaba is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( trumpet , truba , percussion ).

Dalaba lived in New York City from 1978 , where she initially worked in the ensembles of Wayne Horvitz , Elliott Sharp and La Monte Young . On the independent label Parachute , she released her debut album Trumpet Songs and Dances in 1979 . In 1989 she returned to her hometown of Seattle , where she worked for an independent label. Over the next few years, she completed her Masters in Chinese Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture at the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Seattle, before doing an internship at the Zhejiang Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China . She has been practicing medicine since 1993.

She also played with Jeff Greinkes band land , the New York Composers Orchestra and in 1996 founded the formation Radio Chongching and the Yellow Hat Band . On the album Core Samples (Dossier, 1992) she published a selection of her own compositions, especially the multi-part suites Core Sample (1989) with the Zlatne Ustne Brass Band , as well as duets with Herb Robertson , Elliott Sharp and the singer Sussan Deihim and Violin Sentiment from 1989, with Sharp and violinist Jim Katzin. The album Dalaba Frith Glick-Rieman Kihlstedt (Accretions, 2003) was created with Fred Frith , Eric Glick Rieman and Carla Kihlstedt . In the field of jazz she was involved in 17 recording sessions between 1978 and 2004. a. with Sue Ann Harkey and Eyvind Kang ( The Story of Iceland , 2000).

Discographic notes

  • Trumpet Songs and Dances (Parachute, 1979), e.g. T. with Wayne Horvitz, Polly Bradfield
  • Zahir (Endless, 1999), with Bill Horist, Randall Dunn
  • Timelines (Tzadik, 2004), with Zeena Parkins , Amy Denio , Ikue Mori , Carla Kihlstedt
  • Eric Glick Rieman, Lesli Dalaba, Stuart Dempster Lung Tree (ReR, 2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Dessen: Decolonizing Art Music: Scenes from the Late Twentieth-Century United States . University of California, San Diego, 2003, p. 88
  2. ↑ a b website
  3. ↑ Bio- and discographic information (P. Scaruffi)
  4. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
personal data
SURNAME Dalaba, Lesli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and improvisation musician (trumpet, truba, percussion)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century