Marilyn Crispell
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. She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio. She discovered jazz through the music of John Coltrane,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 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.
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ALBUMS
- Azure released: 2013
- One Dark Night I Left My Silent House released: 2010
- Vignettes released: 2008
- Ithaca released: 2005
- Selected Works, 1983-1986 released: 2001
- Poetic Justice released: 2001
- Amaryllis released: 2001
- After Appleby released: 2000
- Double Trouble Two released: 1998
- Natives and Aliens released: 1997
- Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: The Music Of Annette Peacock released: 1997
- Hyperion released: 1995
- Santuerio released: 1993
- Overlapping Hands: Eight Segments released: 1991
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