Nicole Mitchell

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Nicole Mitchell (born February 17, 1967 in Syracuse (New York) ) is an American composer and flautist of the Modern Creative .

Live and act

Mitchell started out as a classical musician and has been playing the flute since she was 15 . During her studies at the University of San Diego she was confronted with jazz for the first time ; James Newton had a great musical influence on them. In 1992 she moved to Chicago , where Fred Anderson was her mentor and she soon became a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians . She played in the women's band Samana of the AACM and then founded the band Tindanga Mama . Since 1995 she has worked in a duo with Hamid Drake . Her first album Vision Quest (2001) was conceived as a spiritual journey; on her second album Africa Rising (2002) she celebrated the traditions of Africa and developed an African-American perspective from them. Her third album Hope, Future, and Destiny (2004) is based on a major interdisciplinary project and combines dance, film, poetry and jazz. She later performed internationally with her Indigo Trio and with her large-format Black Earth Ensemble , with whom she also released the album Black Unstoppable . In 2008 she presented her composition Through the Eyes of a Child with the NOW Orchestra in Vancouver , where she was a guest artist at the Vancouver Creative Music Institute for two years . In 2010 she performed several works as Artist in Residence at the Chicago Jazz Festival . She also appeared in Rob Mazurek's groups . In 2017 she presented the productions Liberation Narratives (Third World Press, with the poet Haki R. Madhubuti ) and Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE Records). You can hear it u. a. also on Mike Reed's The Speed ​​of Change (2008), Marc Dresser's Ain't Nothing But a Cyber ​​Coup & You (2019) and We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration by the Art Ensemble of Chicago .

Mitchell was Vice President of the AACM since 2006, responsible for the education of young musicians. Since August 2011 she has been a professor at the University of California, Irvine . From 2019 she will lead the jazz program at the University of Pittsburgh .

Prizes and awards

In Down Beat Poll, Mitchell was recognized for several years in a row (2005 to 2010) as the leading flute talent; In 2010 and 2011 she won the magazine's critics poll as leading flautist. In 2010 she was named Jazz Flutist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association . In 2011 she received the $ 75,000 Alpert Award .

Discographic notes

  • Offering: Live at Le Guess Who (2020), with Moor Mother
  • Nicole Mitchell & Lisa E. Harris: Earth Seed (2020), with Ben LaMar Gay , Tomeika Reid , Avreeayl Ra , Julian Otis, Zarah Zaharieva

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ For example, in 2011 in Strasbourg; see. This woman has a lot of staying power! (Concert review ) and recording (Indigo Trio & Michel Edelin The Ethopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest at RogueArt , 2011; with Harrison Bankhead , Hamid Drake)
  2. ^ NOW Orchestra with N. Mitchell
  3. ↑ Giovanni Russonello: Nicole Mitchell to Lead Jazz Program at the University of Pittsburgh. The New York Times , January 14, 2019, accessed January 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mitchell, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Syracuse (New York)