Yelena Eckemoff
Yelena Eckemoff ( Russian Елена Экемов ; * around 1962 in Moscow ) is an American jazz pianist of Russian origin.
Life
Eckemoff completed classical piano training at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow . After completing a master's degree in piano and music education, she worked as a piano teacher in Moscow music schools, gave solo concerts and played in a jazz-rock band; from the 1990s she recorded under her own name.
In 1991 Eckemoff emigrated to the United States with her family. In 2009 the album Cold Sun was created , recorded in Copenhagen in a trio with Mads Vinding and Peter Erskine , which, like all later works, was self-published. She also worked with Morten Lund , Mats Eilertsen , Marilyn Mazur , Darek Oleszkiewicz and Arild Andersen . In 2014 she released the album A Touch of Radiance with a quintet , with Joe Locke , Billy Hart , Mark Turner and George Mraz . In the field of jazz, she was involved in 13 recording sessions between 2009 and 2018.
Discographic notes
- Flying Steps (L & H 2010), with Peter Erskine, Darek Oleszkiewicz
- Forget-me-not (L & H, 2012), with Mats Eilertsen , Marilyn Mazur
- A Touch of Radiance (L&H, 2014), with Mark Turner , Joe Locke , George Mraz , Billy Hart
- Leaving Everything Behind (L&H, 2016), with Mark Feldman , Ben Street , Billy Hart
- Blooming Tall Phlox (L & H, 2017), with Verneri Pohjola , Panu Savolainen , Antti Lotjonen , Olavi Louhivuori
- In the Shadow of a Cloud (L&H Production, 2017), with Chris Potter , Adam Rogers , Drew Gress , Gerald Cleaver
- Desert (L&H, 2018), with Paul McCandless , Arild Andersen , Peter Erskine
- Better Than Gold and Silver (L & H 2010), 2CD 1 vocal, 1 instrumental, with Ralph Alessi (t); E); Ben Monder (elg); Christian Howes (from left); Drew Gress (b); Joey Baron (d)
Web links
- Web presence
- Yelena Eckemoff at Allmusic (English)
- Yelena Eckemoff at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Review at All About Jazz
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 29, 2018)
- ↑ Review ( Jazzthing 123)
- ↑ Better than Gold and Silver , jazzjournal.co.uk January 20, 2019, accessed July 20, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckemoff, Yelena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Экемов, Елена (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist of Russian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |