Léandre, Joëlle

Joëlle Léandre
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Name	Léandre, Joëlle Gender: F
Birthname	Joëlle Jeanne Lucienne Léandre
born on	12 September 1951 at 22:45 (= 10:45 PM )
Place	Aix en Provence, France, 43n32, 5e26
Timezone	MET h1e (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Geslain
Astrology data	19°19' 14°44 Asc. 17°28'

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Joëlle Léandre (at Cornelia Street Cafe 2 July 2010. Photo: Claire Stefani)
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Biography

French 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 has also collaborated with some of the preeminent musicians in the fields of jazz and improvised music.

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 Irène Schweizer and Maggie Nicols.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Source Notes

Didier Geslain archive, 'jazz' pdf file, p. 81.

Categories

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Composer/ Arranger

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist (Double bassist)

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Jazz

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc.

• Vocation : Politics : Activist/ feminist