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Marilyn Crispell
Crispell in concert, April 29, 2008
Crispell in concert, April 29, 2008
Background information
Born (1947-03-30) March 30, 1947 (age 77)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
GenresJazz, classical
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
InstrumentPiano
Years active1977 – present
Websitewww.marilyncrispell.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

  • Spirit Music (Cadence, 1983)
  • Rhythms Hung in Undrawn Sky (Leo, 1983)
  • Live in Berlin (Black Saint, 1984)
  • Piano Solo – A Concert in Berlin – Summer 83 (FMP, 1984)
  • And Your Ivory Voice Sings (Leo, 1985) – with Doug James
  • Quartet Improvisations, Paris 1986 (Leo, 1987)
  • Gaia (Leo, 1988)
  • Labyrinths (Victo, 1988)
  • Duets Vancouver 1989 (Music & Arts, 1990) with Anthony Braxton
  • Live in Zurich (Leo, 1990)
  • Live in San Francisco (Music & Arts, 1990)
  • The Kitchen Concert (Leo, 1991)
  • Overlapping Hands (FMP, 1991) – with Irene Schweizer
  • Duo (Knitting Factory Works, 1992) – with Gerry Hemingway
  • Piano Duets (for tuned and detuned pianos) (Leo, 1992) – with Georg Graewe
  • For Coltrane (Leo, 1993)
  • Highlights from the Summer of 1992 American Tour (Music & Arts, 1993)
  • Santuerio (Leo, 1993)
  • Stellar Pulsations / Three Composers (Leo, 1994)
  • Band on the Walls (Matchless, 1994) – with Eddie Prevost
  • Inference (Music & Arts, 1995) – with Tim Berne
  • Hyperion (Music & Arts, 1995) – with Peter Brötzmann and Hamid Drake
  • Cascades (Music & Arts, 1995) – with Barry Guy and Gerry Hemingway
  • Spring Tour (Alice, 1995) – with Anders Jormin and Raymond Strid
  • Destiny (Okka Disk, 1995) – with Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake
  • Live at Mills College 1995 (Music & Arts, 1995)
  • The Woodstock Concert (Music & Arts, 1996)
  • Contrast: Live at Yoshi's (Music & Arts, 1996)
  • Connecting Spirits (Music & Arts, 1996) – with Joseph Jarman
  • Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: Music of Annette Peacock (ECM, 1997)
  • Dark Night, and Luminous (Edicions Nova Era, 1998) – with Agusti Fernandez
  • Red (Black Saint, 2000) – with Stefano Maltese
  • Blue (Black Saint, 2001) – with Stefano Maltese
  • Amaryllis (ECM, 2001)
  • Complicite (Victo, 2001)
  • Storyteller (ECM, 2004)
  • Vignettes (ECM, 2008)
  • Sibanye (We Are One) (Intakt, 2009) – with Louis Moholo–Moholo
  • Collaborations Live at Nya Perspektiv Festivals 2004 and 2007 (Leo, 2009)
  • One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (ECM, 2010) – with David Rothenberg
  • Affinities (Intakt, 2011) – with Gerry Hemingway
  • Play Braxton (Tzadik, 2012) – with Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway
  • Azure (ECM, 2013) – with Gary Peacock
  • Table of Changes (Intakt, 2015) – with Gerry Hemingway
  • In Motion (Intakt, 2016) – with Richard Poole and Gary Peacock

As sideman

with Roscoe Mitchell
  • Sketches From Bamboo (Moers, 1979)
with Wadada Leo Smith
  • Budding of a Rose (Moers, 1979)
with Anthony Braxton
with Reggie Workman
  • Synthesis (Leo, 1986)
  • Images (Musics & Arts, 1990)
  • Altered Spaces (Leo, 1993)
with Larry Ochs
  • The Secret Magritte (Black Saint, 1995)
with Francois Houle
  • Any Terrain Tumultuous (Red Toucan, 1995)
with Michael Moore and Gerry Hemingway
  • MGM Trio (Ramboy, 1996)
with Bobby Zankel
  • Human Flowers (CIMP, 1996)
with Scott Fields
  • 48 Motives, January 11, 1996 (Cadence, 1996)
  • Five Frozen Eggs (Music & Arts, 1996)
  • Sonotropism (Music & Arts, 1997)
with Steve Lacy
  • Five Facings (FMP, 1996)
with Ivo Perelman
with Barry Guy London Jazz Composer's Orchestra
  • Three Pieces for Orchestra (Intakt, 1997)
  • Double Trouble Two (Intakt, 1998)
with Guy-Gustafsson-Strid Trio
  • The Fabled 1996 Radio Sweden Concert: gryffgryffgryffs (Music & Arts, 1997)
with Parker-Guy-Lytton Trio
  • Natives and Aliens (Leo, 1997)
  • After Appleby (Leo, 2000)
with Urs Liemgruber, Joelle Leandre and Fritz Hauser
  • Quartet Noir (Victo, 1999)
  • Quartet Noir Lugano (Victo, 2005)
with Joelle Leandre
  • Joelle Léandre Project (Leo Records, 2000)
  • Stone Quartet: Live at Vision Festival (Ayler, 2011)
with Lotte Anker and Marilyn Mazur
with Barry Guy and Paul Lytton
  • Odyssey (Intakt, 2001)
  • Ithaca (Intakt, 2004)
  • Phases of the Night (Intakt, 2008)
with Barry Guy New Orchestra
  • Inscape—Tableaux (Intakt, 2001)
with Anders Jormin
with NOW Orchestra
  • Pola (Victo, 2005)
with Michele Rabbia and Vincent Courtois
with Gunhild Seim & Time Jungle
  • Elephant Wings (Drollehala, 2012)
with Tisziji Munoz
  • Auspicious Healing (Anami Music, 2000)
  • Breaking the Wheel of Life and Death (Anami, 2000)
  • Heart to Heart (Anami, 2013)
  • Beautiful Empty Fullness (Anami, 2014)
  • The Paradox of Independence (Anami, 2014)

References

  1. ^ a b c Greenland, Tom (October 13, 2006). "Marilyn Crispell". All About Jazz. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
  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 July 19, 2010.

Notes

  • Zorn, John, ed. (2000). Arcana: Musicians on Music. New York: Granary Books/Hips Road. ISBN 1-887123-27-X.
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