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Joëlle Léandre
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Taxi : for solo double bass and speaking musician
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1951-09-12
free improvisationfree jazzjazz
Discography
- Live At The Bastille1982
- taxi1982
- Les Douze Sons1984
- Cordial Gratin1987
- Doublebass and Voice1987
- Paris Quartet1989
- Urban Bass1991
- Palimpseste1992
- L'Histoire de Mme. Tasco1993
- Okanagon1993
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- Listeners
- 2,024
- Total plays
- 21,635
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free improvisationfree jazzAllimprovbass
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). <a hre
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Aix-en-Provence
- Occupation
- singer
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- singing
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.joelle-leandre.com
- Image
- Joëlle Léandre.jpg
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- Joëlle Léandre
- date of birth
- 1951-09-12
- name in native language
- Joëlle Léandre
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