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Selected Clips: 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. |
Signature On two magic nights (obviously) at the Egg Farm in Japan, Joëlle teamed with two of Japan's leading jazz pianists captured on this double cd. Disc 1 features Joëlle and Masahiko Satoh in a series of 7 signature pieces that are open and sparse allowing the two improvisors to perform as much with the silence as with their instruments. Disc 2 features Joëlle the next night with Yuji Takahashi in another series of 7 signature pieces. This time the music is more energetic, reflecting both Takahashi's work with Xenakis and Joëlle's bass style for which she is better known. Together, the two discs complement as well as any two cd sets you will ever buy. Comes with our highest recommendation. Disc 1: 33 minutes :::>>> Tell A Friend About This CD From Drimala If you like this cd, you might also enjoy listening to: No Comment (Joëlle Léandre) Beauvais Cathedral (Kent Carter) Short Stories (Stevens, Whitecage) Portrait In Red (Stevens) Border Crossings (Reason, Valsamis) Any Terrain Tumultuous (Crispell and Houle) c'estca (Léandre, Poulsen, Houle) Chamber Music (Dan DeChellis) |
