Lisa Parrott

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Lisa Parrott (* 1968 ) is an Australian jazz musician ( alto , baritone , soprano and tenor saxophone ).

Live and act

Parrott, who first learned the clarinet and piano as a child, then switched to the saxophone and was trained by Don Burrows at the Sydney Conservatory . Already in her youth she played in her own bands. In 1989 she worked with Mike Nock , then with Jackie Orszacsky and John Foreman . In 1996 she founded the trio PLK with Chris Lightcap and Heinrich Köbberling , which released the album Bab Bab (Goat Angel Records) in 1998 and toured Germany. Since the late 1990s she worked in the New York jazz scene, a. a. with Derek Bronston ( Longing , 1998) and was a member of the Diva Jazz Orchestra from 1998 to 2015 . She also played with Dave Brubeck , Nancy Wilson , Diane Schuur , Johnny Mandel , Skitch Henderson , the New York Pops, Gregory and Maurice Hines , Cindy Blackman , Gunther Schuller , Jason Lindner , Joel Harrison , Kit McClure , Virginia Mayhew , Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble, the Artie Shaw Orchestra ( Ghost Band ) of the Jimmy Heath Big Band and with her sister Nicki Parrott , with whom she performed at the Kennedy Center's 2002 Tribute Festival for Mary Lou Williams .

With her quartet (with Nadje Noordhuis (tp, flhrn), Carl Dewhurst (git), Chris Lightcap and Matt Wilson ) Parrott recorded her debut album Round Tripper (Serious Niceness) in 2014 , which received good reviews. In the field of jazz, she was involved in 29 recording sessions between 1998 and 2017, most recently with Richard X Bennett ( Experiments in Truth ).

Prizes and awards

Parrott received the Australian Mo Award for "Best Female Jazz Performer" in 1991 and 1992 . In the competition of the Wangaratta Jazz Festival 1994 she came in third place among the saxophonists. At the Critics Poll of the Down Beat she was nominated several times in the category Rising Star (baritone saxophone), in 2016 she took first place.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 20, 2018)
  2. ↑ Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival 2017
personal data
SURNAME Parrott, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1968