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Joelle Leandre started playing recorder but quickly moved to piano and from the age of 9 to 14 studied both piano and double bass in her home town of Aix-en-Provence. Her double bass teacher, Pierre Delescluse, encouraged her to apply to the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris where she won first prize for double bass. In 1976 she received a scholarship to the Center for Creative and Performing Arts in Buffalo, a time that was to prove particularly influential due to encounters with Morton Feldman, and the music of Earl Brown, John Cage and Giacinto Scelsi. At the same time, she was able to experience the downtown New York music scene and continue her involvement in improvised music. Joelle Leandre has continued to be involved with contemporary 'straight' music, not only as a member of contemporary music ensembles such as 2E2M, Itineraire and l'Ensemble Intercontemporain but particularly through the works of Cage and Scelsi, several of which have been recorded by her

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A Decent Run

By Giancarlo Nino Locatelli

Label: We Insist! Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Situations; Poetry; In Memoriam L. W.; Vita Cortese Tara; Sign of Time; Warm Autumn Problem; Colonel Eternal; Radhopsin Blues; Translation; Oppio Inglese; A Decent Run; Absence.

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Two Truths

By Peter Brötzmann

Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. Productive Cough (Peter Brötzmann, Jörg Fischer) 2. Beside (Per‑Åke Holmlander, Tim Daisy) 3. Conversation I (Joëlle Léandre, Lauren Newton) 4. Truth in the Abstract Blues (Joe McPhee, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten) 5. Goldie (Kirk Knuffke, Mike Pride) 6. Skywriting (Rob Brown, Daniel Levin) 7. Penumbra for woodwind(s) & bass(es) 1+1 (Anthony Braxton, Chris Dahlgren) 8. Improvisation No. 4 (Paulina Owczarek, Tomasz Gądecki) 9. Dear Rafał 1 (Agustí Fernández, Rafał Mazur) 10. Landing Takeoff (Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp) 11. In Kraków, In November (Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura) 12. Persistence (Thomas Pernes, Andy Manndorff) 13. Gold (Lucas Niggli, Peter Conradin Zumthor)

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Joëlle Léandre, Evan Parker: Long Bright Summer

Read "Long Bright Summer" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
August 3, 2026

Joelle Leandre e Evan Parker, due tra i massimi rappresentanti della tradizione improvvisativa europea, hanno registrato nel 1982, il primo disco assieme, 28 rue Donois, membri di un quartetto che includeva anche due straordinari musicisti come Derek Bailey e George Lewis. Negli oltre quarant'anni successivi sono state numerosissime le documentazioni delle occasioni in cui si sono ...

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New Music From Harry Skoler, Joe Syrian, Emie R Roussel, Ava Mendoza And More

by Bob Osborne
May 28, 2026

This selection offers a sophisticated journey through the contemporary jazz landscape, balancing melodic tradition with rigorous avant-garde exploration. The sequence moves seamlessly from the elegant, Goodman-inspired tones of Harry Skoler and the rhythmic drive of the Motor City Jazz Octet into the more abstract, adventurous territories of Ava Mendoza and Joel Futterman. Featuring a rich blend ...

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Joëlle Léandre, Lotte Ancker, Kresten Osgood: Worlds

Read "Worlds" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
March 9, 2026

Registrato il 6 luglio 2023 a The Playhouse Copenhagen Jazz Festival, questo disco vede all'opera un trio di straordinari improvvisatori radicali europei quali sono la contrabbassista francese Joëlle Léandre, la sassofonista Lotte Anker e il batterista Kresten Osgood, entrambi danesi. I quasi tre quarti d'ora di musica a cui i tre artisti danno vita ...

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Joëlle Léandre, Andrzej Karałow: Flint

by Neri Pollastri
January 19, 2026

Classe 1991, polacco di Łódź, Andrzej Karałow è un pianista di formazione classico-contemporanea, noto per le collaborazioni con orchestre sinfoniche e per le sue composizioni, ma anche dedito all'improvvisazione, che pratica in campi disparati, talvolta anche con artisti visuali. In questo disco lo troviamo all'opera con Joëlle Léandre, Maestra dell'improvvisazione europea, in una registrazione fatta a ...

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