Linda Oh

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Linda May Han Oh (2019)
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Linda Oh (* 25. August 1984 in Malaysia as Linda May Han Oh ) is an Australian jazz musician ( bass , vocals and composition ), who lives in the United States.

Live and act

Oh grew up as a child of Chinese immigrants in western Australia and chose a classical music education; she started playing the piano at the age of four, clarinet at eleven and bassoon at thirteen . As a bass guitarist, she was a member of the high school band; It was in the 2002 Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts received where they contrabass studied and with the transcription of Dave Holland employed -Solos. She wrote her thesis on the rhythms of classical North Indian music in Hollands Spiel. After several grants and composition commissions, she moved to New York City in 2008 . There she completed a master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music , u. a. with Jay Anderson , John Riley , Phil Markowitz , Dave Liebman and Rodney Jones .

In 2008 she recorded her debut album Entry , which was published the following year, with her own compositions and a cover version of the Red Hot Chili Peppers song Oztrax , on which trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and drummer Obed Calvaire participated. Oh also worked on recordings by Jon Irabagon ( Outright , 2008), Sarah Manning ( Dandelion Clock , 2010), Brian Girley ( Faith , 2011), Pascal Le Boeuf ( Pascal's Triangle , 2013) and Art Hirahara ( Libations & Meditations , 2014) With. In 2012 she presented the album Initial Here , on which the pianist Fabian Almazan participated, followed by Sun Pictures ( Greenleaf ), u. a. with Ted Poor . Almazan invited her to the New Jazz Meeting in 2015 , where the album Realm of Possibilities was created.

On April 14, 2017 she, who now explicitly calls herself Linda May Han Oh , released the album Walk Against Wind (Biophilia Records), which she shared with Ben Wendel (ts), Matthew Stevens (g), Justin Brown ( dr) and Fabian Almazan (p) recorded at the beginning of March 2016. She presented her current album Aventurine (with Greg Ward , Fabian Almazan and Rudy Royston ) at Jazzahead in 2019 .

She became internationally known to wider circles as a member of the Dave Douglas - Joe Lovano Quintet ( Scandal , 2018) and, since 2016, as a member of Pat Metheny's current quartet . She has also appeared with Slide Hampton , TS Monk , Nathan Davis , George Cables , James Morrison , Nasheet Waits , Joel Frahm , Steve Wilson , George Colligan and Billy Childs .

Oh lives in Harlem, New York . She is engaged to the jazz pianist and Biophilia India label owner Fabian Almazan.

Awards

In the course of her career to date, Oh has won numerous Australian and international awards: In 2003 she was a finalist of the James Morrison Scholarship . In 2004 she won the IAJE Sisters in Jazz competition . Upon graduation, she received first prize for the best lecture. From 2006 to 2008 she was a scholarship holder of the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program , the Banff Center program for creative improvisation and the Steans Institute. In 2008 she received the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer's Award and in 2009 she was a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Bass Jazz Competition . In 2010 she won the Bell Award for Young Australian Jazz Musician of the Year. In 2016 she was nominated for the JJA Awards .

Discographic notes

  • Initial Here (Greenleaf 2012)
  • Sun Pictures (Greenleaf 2015, with Ben Weidel, James Muller, Ted Poor)
  • Linda May Han Oh: Aventurine (Biophilia, 2019), with Greg Ward, Matt Mitchell and Ches Smith, and Fung Chern Hwei, Sarah Caswell, Bennie von Gutzeit, Jeremy Harman
  • Walter Smith III : In Common 2 (2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry (AllAboutJazz)
  2. ↑ a b c Portrait at All About Jazz ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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.allaboutjazz.com
  3. ↑ Meeting at NPR Jazz
  4. ↑ Linda Oh at Discogs (English)
  5. ^ Mark F. Turner: Review of the album in All About Jazz
  6. ↑ Fabian Almazan Realm of Possibilities: SRW New Jazz Meeting 2016 (discussion of jazzthing)
  7. ↑ see Discogs Linda Oh - Walk Against Wind , accessed on April 28, 2018.
  8. ↑ Linda May Han Oh: Aventurine hr2-Live Jazz, July 13, 2019
  9. ↑ a b Karsten Mützelfeldt : "Arrived" - portrait of bassist Linda Oh (55 min.) , Deutschlandfunk in the JazzFacts series from April 19, 2018, accessed April 28, 2018
  10. ^ A New Approach to Rhythmic Bass Improvisation: an exploration of rhythmic devices used by Dave Holland and the rhythmic aspects of North Indian Classical Music
personal data
SURNAME Oh linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Han Oh, Linda May
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian jazz musician (double bass, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Malaysia