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Joëlle Léandre 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. Joëlle Léandre has continued to be involved with contemporary 'straight' music, not only as a member of contemporary music ensembles such as 2E2M, Itinéraire and l'Ensemble Intercontemporain but particularly through the works of Cage and Scelsi, several of which have been recorded by her. Of Cage, she told Machart (1994): "He will always be my spiritual father. I had already read For the birds before meeting him. It is an important book. John made me listen to the world around me: 'Let sound be what it is'. He opened up a field of possibilities; he gave me confidence; he cooked for me (he was a very good cook), with his friend Cunningham; he was good. A friend. He was the first to smile when I played my piece Taxi in the hall at Columbia University - I can still remember it!" After listening to jazz (Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Monk, Dolphy), "I quickly got into the free, improvised realm where, for me, Derek Bailey is extremely important, also George Lewis and Irène Schweizer, and for sure, Anthony Braxton. Meeting Derek in New York several years ago had nearly the same impact on me as meeting Cage". Léandre recorded with Bailey on Les douze sons and on the Company disc Trios, and has worked with a wide range of improvisors, for example: Maggie Nicols, Lindsay Cooper, Irène Schweizer, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, Eric Watson, Lol Coxhill, Peter Kowald, William Parker, and Barre Philips. She is a member of the European Women's Improvising Group (recorded on Intakt 002). More recently she formed The Canvas Trio with long-term associates Rüdiger Carl and Carlos Zingaro. In 1994 Joëlle Léandre was the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) artist in residence in the city of Berlin; from November 1997 to June 1998 she took up a residence in Metz, north-east France teaching and giving master classes at academic institutions in the region and playing concerts with a range of improvisors that included Eric Watson, Lauren Newton, Carlos Zingaro and Paul Lovens. |
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Waiting The first time that these two great improvisers appear together on a whole CD. “So what kind of music is that exactly? You may be tempted to ask this question after No Waiting. But whether you call it non-idiomatic improvisation, free improvisation, free music or whatever other term you fancy, you will, given time, grow to love this music simply for what it is, a crystal-clear snapshot of a memorable evening at Les Instants Chavirés, a great gig by two extraordinary musicians. No point shouting it from the rooftops -your neighbours are too busy listening to Oasis-, just let's quietly treasure this rare gem. Shhh... It'll be our secret...” -- Dan Warburton 5 tracks in 50:32 minutes. More Potlatch :::>>> Tell A Friend About This CD From Drimala If you like this cd, you might also enjoy listening to: c'estca (Léandre, Poulsen, Houle) No Comment (Léandre) Outcome (Derek Bailey - Steve Lacy) Temperament (Rose and Weston) Dynamics of the Impromptu (Bailey, Stevens, Watts) These Are Our Shoes (Peggy Lee - Dylan van der Shyff) Singularity (Joe Morris) MBEK (Bisio and Kang) Battuto (Corbett, Gustafsson, Kapsalis, Longberg-Holm) Beauvais Cathedral (Kent Carter) Caspar (Klaus Janek) The Second Sky (Russell and Turner) Double Indemnity (Honsinger, Kondo, Toop, Beresford) |
