Joëlle Léandre

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Joëlle Léandre
Joëlle Léandre at Cornelia Street Cafe 2 July 2010 Photo: Claire Stefani
Background information
Born	(1951-09-12) 12 September 1951 Aix-en-Provence, France
Genres	Contemporary classical music, free improvisation, contemporary music
Occupations	Musician, composer
Instruments	Upright bass, vocals
Associated acts	John Cage, Pierre Boulez, Les Diaboliques, Feminist Improvising Group

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.^[1] 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, Lisbon, Portugal). In this same top jazz festival, Léandre performed also in the "Quartet Noir", a 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, Barre Phillips, Anthony Braxton,^[2] George Lewis, India Cooke, Evan Parker, Irène Schweizer, Steve Lacy, Maggie Nicols, Fred Frith, Carlos Zingaro, John Zorn, Susie Ibarra, J. D. Parran, Kevin Norton, Eric Watson, Ernst Reijseger, Akosh S. and Sylvie Courvoisier.

In 1983 she became a member of the European Women Improvising Group (EWIG),^[1] which resulted from former Feminist Improvising Group and in later 1980s she co-founded the feminist improvising Trio Les Diaboliques, with Schweizer and Nicols.

Discography

With Anthony Braxton

Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988 (Victo, 1988 [1992])

With György Szabados

Live at Magyarkakanizsa (BMC Records, 2010 [2011])

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Layne, Joslyn. "Joëlle Léandre: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
↑ Hareuveni, Eyal (2008-01-21). "Joelle Leandre: On Freedom and Responsibility". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2010-07-12.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joëlle Léandre.

Artist profile at All About Jazz.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 42898050 LCCN: nr91023375 ISNI: 0000 0000 8121 9274 GND: 128758252 BNF: cb139618255

Persondata
Name	Leandre, Joelle
Alternative names
Short description	French double bassist, vocalist and composer
Date of birth	1951-09-12
Place of birth	Aix-en-Provence, France
Date of death
Place of death

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