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Marilyn Mazur

Born: January 18, 1955

Marilyn Mazur was born in New York in 1955. She has beenliving in Denmark since age six. As a child and teenager sheplayed classical piano and danced ballet.

She started her musical career as a dancer with CreativeDance Theatre in 1971. As composer/pianist she formedher first band Zirenes in 1973. From 1975 she worked aspercussionist, drummer and singer with various groups, andbecame known on the danish musicscene as the colorfulpercussionist/composer of the group Six Winds withdrummer Alex Riel and as the leader of the all-women-musictheatre-group Primi Band.

Marilyn Mazur is educated at the Royal Danish Academy ofMusic, but is largely autodidact on her instruments, inspiredby music from all over the world. She received the BenWebster Award in 1983, and the same year started a jazzquartet with saxophonist Uffe Markussen. She continued todevelope her very personal forms of musicalcommunication with various - mostly european - artists.

Be Quiet

By Nils Petter Molvaer

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Bangkok; Rome; Düsseldorf; London-Finsbury Park; Copenhagen; London-Hackney; Amsterdam; Berlin-orbit 4; München.

Ingeborg Gravem Sollid, Ernst Reijseger, The Olympians, Petite Lucette & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 2, 2026

Enjoy another playlist featuring projects where tradition gets lovingly bent, twisted, and reshaped.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 The Olympians “Thunderball" In Search of a Revival (Daptone) 0:16 Host talks 4:33 La La Lars “Uggledans" Lilla Lars (Gothborgen) 5:46 Host talks 9:57 Ernst Reijseger ...

Nils Petter Molvaer: Be Quiet

by Neil Duggan
July 7, 2026

For over three decades, Norwegian trumpeter and composer Nils Petter Molvaer has stood as one of the most influential figures in European jazz. On Be Quiet, he continues to push the boundaries of his already remarkable body of work, collaborating with a different artist in a different location on each of the nine tracks

Marilyn Mazur: The Song in the Woods

by Adriana Carcu
January 26, 2026

This interview was first published on All About Jazz on August 17, 2015. Danish drummer, percussionist and composer Marilyn Mazur reached iconic status on the contemporary jazz scene in the early years of her career. Playing in the eighties with titans Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and Gil Evans, she later joined Jan Garbarek's group ...

Remembering Marilyn Mazur: Percussion Shaman

by Ian Patterson
January 26, 2026

Marilyn Mazur, the trailblazing Danish drummer, percussionist, composer and bandleader, who enjoyed an extraordinarily varied career, has died at the age of 70. In over fifty years working in jazz and improvised music, Mazur collaborated with Alex Riel, Wayne Shorter, Gil Evans, Charlie Mariano, Jon Balke, Dhafer Youssef, and Jan Garbarek, amongst many others. She holds ...

Marilyn Mazur, Angelika Niescier, Pat Thomas & Tomeka Reid

by Maurice Hogue
January 5, 2026

There's some great music coming in 2026, so I dropped in a preview tracks of upcoming albums by alto saxophonist Angelika Niescier collaborating with some of Chicago's finest, England's free jazz pianist Pat Thomas with XT (2.5 hours of screamin' free jazz on Strata Act (Joy Contemporary), Chicago's cellist supreme Tomeka Reid & quartet, Flea from ...

Take Five with Pianist Andrii Pokaz

by AAJ Staff
November 10, 2025

Meet Andrii Pokaz Andrii Pokaz holds Bachelor's and PhD degrees from the Odesa National A.V. Nezhdanova Academy of Music, where he later returned as a professor, teaching and mentoring young Ukrainian musicians for over 16 years. A laureate of numerous international competitions, he is also frequently invited to serve on juries at prestigious music contests.

Michala Østergaard-Nielsen: The Poetic Vibrations of Drumming

by Dean Nardi
September 15, 2025

Michala Østergaard-Nielsen is a jazz drummer from Denmark, a country with a rich tradition of women playing drums. Once during a lesson with Gerald Cleaver, she was told you could either play drums upon sound or upon a pattern. “That really opened the doors for me to not think just the technical things, but listen to ...

Joni Mitchell Jazzed: Ten Essential Mitchell Covers

by Ian Patterson
January 3, 2025

Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's spectacular transition from acoustic folk singer in the '60s through folk-rock 'n' roller in the early '70s to leader of jazz-inflected bands in the mid-'70s was a gradual process. This musical transformation can be traced over the course of five albums for Asylum, beginning with the multi-million seller and Grammy-winner Court and ...