Joelle Leandre

8-CD BOX SET

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 Inter Contemporain, 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, 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, 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), which resulted from former Feminist Improvising Group and in later 1980s she co-founded the feminist improvising Trio Les Diaboliques, with Schweizer and Nicols.

MUSICIANS:

JOËLLE LÉANDRE. double bass
JEAN-LUC CAPPOZZO, trumpet
AGUSTI FERNANDEZ, piano
FED FRITH, guitar
ZLATKO KAUCIC, drums, percussion
MAT MANERI, violin
LAUREN NEWTON, voice
MAGGIE NICOLS, vocals
EVAN PARKER,  tenor sax
IRÉNE SCHWEIZER, piano

CD 1: LES DIABOLIQUES

IRÉNE SCHWEIZER
JOËLLE LÉANDRE
MAGGIE NICOLS TRIO
OM, Moscow October 6th 2015.

CD 2: JOËLLE LÉANDRE & MAT MANERI DUET
La Java PariS, January 23rd 2011

CD 3: JOËLLE LÉANDRE & LAUREN NEWTON DUET
Auditorium Conservatoire of Music of Besançon,February 27th  2016

CD 4: JOËLLE LÉANDRE & JEAN-LUC CAPPOZZO DUET
Auditorium Conservatoire of Music of Besançon,November 3rd  2015

CD 5: JOËLLE LÉANDRE & FRED FRITH DUET
Les Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, June 11th  2016

CD 6: JOËLLE LÉANDRE SOLO
La voix est Libre, Paris, June 14th  2005

CD 7: JOËLLE LÉANDRE / ZLATKO KAUCIC / ZLATKO KAUCIC QUARTET
Alchemia Club, Kraków, October 19th 2015

CD 8: JOËLLE LÉANDRE  DUOS with ZLATKO KAUCIC / ZLATKO KAUCIC
Alchemia Club, Kraków, October 21st 2015