Nedra Wheeler
Nedra Wheeler is an American jazz bassist.
Wheeler first learned guitar, piano and organ before switching to double bass in junior high school . She received her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and initially worked as a session musician in the 1980s. In the early 1990s with Milcho Leviev , with whom she toured Bulgaria in 1990, and with Pat Benatar (1991), Kenny Burrell , Billy Higgins and Cedar Walton . She presented the album Gifts under her own name .
This was followed by recordings with Karl Denson , the Harper Brothers ( Artistry , 1991), Terence Blanchard ( Malcolm X ) and Horace Tapscott ( Project Blowed , 1994), in the 2000s also among others. a. with Michael White in the Los Angeles-based music collective Build an Ark and in the Al Williams Jazz Society . Wheeler, who lives in California, was involved in 21 recording sessions from 1990 to 2007, including a. also with Karen Briggs, Tomas Janzon and June Kuramoto. In 2006 she received the Jazz Legend of Los Angeles Award . She teaches at the Los Angeles Community College and the Los Angeles Jazz Mentorship Program.
Lexical entry
- Leslie Gourse : Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists . Oxford University Press, 1995
Web links
- Web presence
- Nedra Wheeler at Allmusic (English)
- Nedra Wheeler at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bill Kohlhaase : Woman Bassist Walks in World of Men (1993) in Los Angeles Times
- ^ Horace Tapscott: Songs of the Unsung: The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott , p. 234.
- ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wheeler, Nedra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz bassist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |