Marilyn Crispell

Marilyn Crispell

Crispell in concert, April 29, 2008
Background information
Born (1947-03-30) March 30, 1947
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Genres Jazz, Classical music
Occupation(s) Musician, composer
Instruments Piano
Years active 1977 – present
Associated acts Barry Guy, Henry Grimes, Anders Jormin
Website Marilyn Crispell.com

Marilyn Crispell (born March 30, 1947) is an American jazz pianist and composer.

Biography

Crispell was born in Philadelphia. She studied classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music.[1] She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio.[2] She discovered jazz through the music of John Coltrane,[1] Cecil Taylor and other contemporary jazz players and composers as Paul Bley and Leo Smith.

For ten years she was a member of Anthony Braxton's Quartet[1] and the Reggie Workman Ensemble. She has been a member of the Barry Guy New Orchestra as well as a member of the Henry Grimes Trio, the Europea Quartet Noir (with Urs Leimgruber, Fritz Hauser and Joëlle Léandre), and Anders Jormin's Bortom Quintet.

In 1981 she performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival, held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio.

In 2005 she performed and recorded with the NOW Orchestra in Vancouver, Canada and in 2006 she was co-director of the Vancouver Creative Music Institute and a faculty member at the Banff Centre International Workshop in Jazz.

Crispell has performed and recorded as a soloist and leader of her own groups. She has also performed and recorded music by contemporary composers John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Cogan, Pozzi Escot, Manfred Niehaus and Anthony Davis (including his opera X with the New York City Opera).

In addition to playing, she has taught improvisation workshops and given lecture/demonstrations at universities and art centers in the U.S., Europe, Canada and New Zealand, and has collaborated with videographers, filmmakers, dancers and poets. She received a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]

Discography

As leader/co-leader

As sideman

with Roscoe Mitchell
with Wadada Leo Smith
with Anthony Braxton
with Reggie Workman
with Larry Ochs
with Francois Houle
with Michael Moore and Gerry Hemingway
with Bobby Zankel
with Scott Fields
with Steve Lacy
with Ivo Perelman
with Barry Guy London Jazz Composer's Orchestra
with Guy-Gustafsson-Strid Trio
with Parker-Guy-Lytton Trio
with Urs Liemgruber, Joelle Leandre and Fritz Hauser
with Joelle Leandre
with Lotte Anker and Marilyn Mazur
with Barry Guy and Paul Lytton
with Barry Guy New Orchestra
with Anders Jormin
with NOW Orchestra
with Michele Rabbia and Vincent Courtois
with Gunhild Seim & Time Jungle
with Tisziji Munoz

References

  1. 1 2 3 Greenland, Tom (October 13, 2006). "Marilyn Crispell". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
  2. ↑ Lock, Graham (1994). Chasing the Vibration: Meetings with Creative Musicians. Exeter: Stride. pp. 105–111. ISBN 1-873012-81-0.
  3. ↑ "Marilyn Crispell: 2005 – US & Canada Competition Creative Arts – Music Composition". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2010-07-19.

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