Marilyn Mazur
Marilyn Marie Douglas Mazur (born January 18, 1955 in New York City ) is an American-Danish jazz musician ( percussionist , drummer , composer , pianist , vocalist).
Live and act
Mazur is the daughter of a Polish father and an African-American mother. Due to the work of her father, the biochemist William Richard Douglas, Mazur lived in Denmark from the age of six. There she received piano, violin and ballet lessons.
In the early 1970s Mazur was initially employed as a dancer and pianist in various dance groups. At the same time, she founded her first band in 1973. She learned most of her numerous percussion instruments only in the course of time in self-study. As a percussionist, she first played with Andreas Vollenweider , Charlie Mariano , Irène Schweizer and other musicians from the Feminist Improvising Group . From 1980 she worked in the Six Winds group; From 1982 to 1984 she directed the all- women music and theater group Primi Band , of which Irene Becker was a member. She then played with John Tchicai and Pierre Dørge in the New Jungle Orchestra . From 1985 to 1989, Miles Davis ' commitment as permanent drummer followed , which had its starting point in the production of his record Aura , directed by Palle Mikkelborg . At the same time, she played with Gil Evans (1986) and Wayne Shorter (1987).
She then played with her husband Klavs Hovman and Peter Kowald (both on bass) and the singer Jeanne Lee in the group Principle Life . In 1989 Mazur founded the fusion group Future Song with pianist Elvira Plenar , singer Aina Kemanis , trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær , husband Hovman on bass and Audun Kleive as second drummer. The group sound was supplemented by the saxophonist Hans Ulrik and the guitarist Eivind Aarset .
In her parallel group, Percussion Paradise , she plays with the percussionists Benita Haastrup , Lisbeth Diers and Birgit Løkke, sometimes with the singer Josefine Cronholm . Mazur also worked with Mathias Rüegg , Makiko Hirabayashi and Simon Spang-Hanssen . She has been touring regularly with Jan Garbarek since 1991 .
At the end of 2010 two albums by the Marilyn Mazur Group were released as double CD: Tangled Temptations & The Magic Box . Tangled Temptations includes the medley arranged accompanying music to Nullo Facchini's dance theater version of The Beggar's Opera ; The Magic Box is a studio release from the group. Celestial Circle is the name of another CD project by Marilyn Mazur that uses less electronics.
Since 2012 Mazur has performed together with the singer Josefine Cronholm and the guitarist Krister Jonsson as the Mazur, Cronholm, Jonsson Trio . Musicians such as Ellen Andrea Wang , Lotte Anker , Josefine Cronholm, Makiko Hirabayashi, Sissel Vera Pettersen , Hildegunn Øiseth belong to her band Shamania , with whom she performed at Jazz Baltica in 2019 and recorded the album of the same name, which was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize and Lis Wessberg .
Prizes and awards
In 1983 she received the Ben Webster Prize and in 2001 the Jazzpar Prize . In 2004 she was also honored with the Edition Wilhelm Hansens Prize, which usually only classical composers receive.
Web links
- Official homepage with discography
- Interview with Marilyn Mazur 2001
- Report on a concert with Percussion Paradise
- Entry in Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marilyn Mazur. laut.de, accessed on December 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mazur, Marilyn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mazur, Marilyn Marie Douglas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Danish jazz musician (percussionist, drummer, composer, pianist, vocalist) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |