Solo 2 - Musik

Joëlle Léandre Born 12 September 1951 In Aix-En-Provence France Is A Double Bassist Vocalist And Composer Active In New Music And Free Improvisation. In The Field Of Contemporary Music She Has Performed With Pierre Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain And Worked With Merce Cunningham And John Cage. Both Cage And Giacinto Scelsi Have Composed Works Specifically For Her. She Gave An Historic Solo Concert In "Jazz Em Agosto" In 2007 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lisboa Portugal . In This Same Top Jazz Festival Joëlle Performed Also In The "Quartet Noir" A Superior Quartet With Quite Rare Live Performances With Marilyn Crispell Urs Leimgruber And Fritz Hauser. She Has Also Collaborated With Some Of The Preeminent Musicians In The Fields Of Jazz And Improvised Music Including Derek Bailey Anthony Braxton George Lewis Evan Parker Irène Schweizer Steve Lacy Maggie Nicols Fred Frith Carlos Zingaro John Zorn Susie Ibarra J. D. Parran Eric Watson Ernst Reijseger And Sylvie Courvoisier. In 1983 She Became Member Of The European Women Improvising Group EWIG Which Resulted From Former Feminist Improvising Group And In Later 1980s She Co-Founded The Feminist Improvising Trio Les Diaboliques With Schweizer And Nicols. External Links * Joëlle Léandre Page From European Free Improvisation Site * Interview By Dan Warburton From Paris Transatlantic Magazine Summer 2002 * FMP Releases * Joëlle Léandre At The Other Minds Festival 12 read less