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Joëlle Léandre
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Joelle Leandre started playing recorder but quickly moved to piano and from the age of 9 to 14 studied both piano and double bass in her home town of Aix-en-Provence. Her double bass teacher, Pierre Delescluse, encouraged her to apply to the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris where she won first prize for double bass. In 1976 she received a scholarship to the Center for Creative and Performing Arts in Buffalo, a time that was to prove particularly influential due to encounters with Morton Feldman, and the music of Earl Brown, John Cage and Giacinto Scelsi. At the same time, she was able to experience the downtown New York music scene and continue her involvement in improvised music. Joelle Leandre has continued to be involved with contemporary 'straight' music, not only as a member of contemporary music ensembles such as 2E2M, Itineraire and l'Ensemble Intercontemporain but particularly through the works of Cage and Scelsi, several of which have been recorded by her
New Music From Harry Skoler, Joe Syrian, Emie R Roussel, Ava Mendoza And More
by Bob Osborne
This selection offers a sophisticated journey through the contemporary jazz landscape, balancing melodic tradition with rigorous avant-garde exploration. The sequence moves seamlessly from the elegant, Goodman-inspired tones of Harry Skoler and the rhythmic drive of the Motor City Jazz Octet into the more abstract, adventurous territories of Ava Mendoza and Joel Futterman. Featuring a rich blend ...
Joëlle Léandre, Lotte Ancker, Kresten Osgood: Worlds
by Neri Pollastri
Registrato il 6 luglio 2023 a The Playhouse Copenhagen Jazz Festival, questo disco vede all'opera un trio di straordinari improvvisatori radicali europei quali sono la contrabbassista francese Joëlle Léandre, la sassofonista Lotte Anker e il batterista Kresten Osgood, entrambi danesi. I quasi tre quarti d'ora di musica a cui i tre artisti danno vita ...
Joëlle Léandre, Andrzej Karałow: Flint
by Neri Pollastri
Classe 1991, polacco di Łódź, Andrzej Karałow è un pianista di formazione classico-contemporanea, noto per le collaborazioni con orchestre sinfoniche e per le sue composizioni, ma anche dedito all'improvvisazione, che pratica in campi disparati, talvolta anche con artisti visuali. In questo disco lo troviamo all'opera con Joëlle Léandre, Maestra dell'improvvisazione europea, in una registrazione fatta a ...
Flint
Label: Fundacja Ensemblage
Released: 2025
Track listing: Flint 1; Flint 2; Flint 3; Flint 4; Flint 5; Flint 6; Flint 7; Flint 8; Flint 9.
Worlds
Label: Fundacja Sluchaj
Released: 2025
Track listing: World One; World Two; World Three.
Earscratcher - Rempis/Harnik/Lonberg-Holm/Daisy: Otoliths
by Mark Corroto
How do these four musicians--individually and collectively--manage to create music that is consistently compelling? Part of the answer lies in their versatility. Each is a formidable soloist, an accomplished bandleader and a sought-after collaborator in improvising ensembles. For Earscratcher, Austrian pianist Elisabeth Harnik joins forces with three longtime stalwarts of the Chicago scene: saxophonist Dave Rempis, ...
Now Music Festival 2025
by Marco Iacoboni
Now Music Festival 2025 Castello Il Poggiarello Pieve di Ponte allo Spino -Sovicille (SI) 20-24 agosto 2025 La quinta edizione del Now Music Festival, tenutasi dal 20 al 24 agosto, ha trasformato la suggestiva Pieve di Ponte allo Spino, vicino a Siena, in un vero e proprio santuario del suono. Le ...
Zlatko Kaučič: The Discipline of Freedom
by Neri Pollastri
Fresh from the release of the four-CD box set Inklings (Fundacja Sluchaj, 2024) and on the eve of the 15th edition of the Brda Contemporary Music Festival--which he founded and still directs--drummer, percussionist, composer and educator Zlatko Kaučič continues a career spanning over four decades, marked by collaborations with many of Europe's greatest improvisers. A passionate ...
A lezione da Jöelle Léandre: diario di un enigma
by Neri Pollastri
Classe 1951, prossima a festeggiare il mezzo secolo di carriera, la contrabbassista francese Joëlle Léandre è considerata una delle maggiori interpreti mondiali dell'improvvisazione libera, o non idiomatica, ambito nel quale opera fin dalla sua uscita dal conservatorio. Solita affiancare l'attività concertistica a quella didattica, ha volentieri accolto l'invito rivoltole da Toscana Produzione Musica e da Silvia ...
