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Article: Live Review

TD Canada Trust 2009 Vancouver International Jazz Festival

by A. Henkin
August 1, 2009

TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz FestivalVancouver, CAJune 26th-July 5th Probably one of the few places on the planet not deep in mourning for recently deceased pop star Michael Jackson was Vancouver, on the western coast of Canada, or at least the parts of the city given over to the 24th annual TD ...

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Article: Profile

Downtown Music Gallery A Summer Blockbuster Hit

by Mark Corroto
June 17, 2009

Imagine the opening credits to a summer blockbuster movie that starts out in space looking down at the earth. As the camera moves in you recognize North America, then the east coast comes into frame and finally the island of Manhattan. The camera pans across the skyscrapers, down, down, down to Chinatown between the Manhattan and ...

Album

A l'improviste

By Joëlle Léandre

Label: Kadima Collective
Released: 2008
Track listing: Gloumpfl; Attal Attal; Elbow Rising; Looking Atcha; Scrieve; Aire We; Radio Synapse.

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Article: Album Review

Joelle Leandre & Barre Phillips: A l'improviste

Read "A l'improviste" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
December 19, 2008

Both Joelle Leandre and Barre Phillips are bass players who carry a wealth of experience around with them, and they bring it to bear so effectively on A l'improviste that the limitations in sonic and timbrel range implied by a program by such a duo is never an issue. Both musicians are similarly alert to the ...

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Article: Film Review

Joelle Leandre: Basse continue

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 1, 2008

Joelle Leandre: Basse continue Hors Oeil Editions 2008 2008 was a good year for French bass master Joelle Leandre: a biographical book A voix basse, assembling her talks with journalist and producer Frank Medioni; excellent discs, with bass comrade Barre Phillips--A l'improviste (Kadima Collective), with reed player Akosh S.--KOR (Leo), ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Joelle Leandre Triple: Winter in New York (2006); DMG @ The Stone Vol. 1 & Freeway

by Kurt Gottschalk
June 8, 2008

Joelle Leandre & Kevin Norton Winter in New York 2006 Leo Records 2007 Joelle Leandre / Marilyn Crispell / Roy Campbell, Jr. / Mat Maneri The Stone Quartet DMG/ARC 2008 Joelle ...

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Article: Profile

Joelle Leandre

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 15, 2008

Joelle Leandre has a huge voice. Not just a formidable singing voice, which can be friendly and frightening, charming and vulgar. And not only on her instrument which can be firmly grounded one moment and soar the next. Leandre's voice unabashedly carries conversation, carries it to unexpected places, making quick turns, never slowing down or backing ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Joelle Leandre: The Art of the Duo

by John Eyles
March 2, 2008

"I was interested in the political sense, what is the position of the bass? Why does the bass have that position in the orchestra? Why only the low sounds? Why only as an accompanying instrument? I was bored with the hierarchy of the bass in the classical music. I did not want this position. It is ...

News: Interview

Bassist Joelle Leandre Interviewed at AAJ

January 21, 2008

"You're playing like Jimi Hendrix." That was the nicest compliment that French bassist Jolle Landre received in her first tour of Israel and the Palestinian Authority in late November, 2007. Landre's last solo concert was in Ramallah before an attentive audience that was mostly unfamiliar with her rsum as one of the most creative musicians of ...

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Joelle Leandre: On Freedom and Responsibility

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 21, 2008

“You're playing like Jimi Hendrix." That was the nicest compliment that French bassist Joelle Leandre received in her first tour of Israel and the Palestinian Authority in late November, 2007. Leandre's last solo concert was in Ramallah before an attentive audience that was mostly unfamiliar with her resume as one of the most creative musicians of ...