Joëlle Léandre

Joëlle Léandre (born 12 September 1951) is a French double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in new music and free improvisation. In the field of contemporary music, she has performed with Pierre Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain, and worked with Merce Cunningham and György Szabados and John Cage. Both Cage and Giacinto Scelsi have composed works specifically for her. She gave a solo concert at Jazz em Agosto in 2007 (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal). At this same jazz festival, Léandre also performed in the Quartet Noir, a quartet which rarely performed live, with Marilyn Crispell, Urs Leimgruber and Fritz Hauser. She has also collaborated with musicians in the fields of jazz and improvised music, including Derek Bailey, Barre Phillips, Anthony Braxton, George E. Lewis, India Cooke, Evan Parker, Irène Schweizer, Steve Lacy, Maggie Nicols, Fred Frith, Vinny Golia, Carlos Zingaro, John Zorn, Susie Ibarra, J. D. Parran, Kevin Norton, Eric Watson, Ernst Reijseger, Akosh S. and Sylvie Courvoisier. In 1983 she became a member of the European Women Improvising Group (EWIG), which evolved from the Feminist Improvising Group, and in the early 1990s she co-founded the feminist improvising trio Les Diaboliques, with Schweizer and Nicols. In 2002 she was resident professor of music at Mills College in California.

Flint - 2025-03-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Great Star Theater, San Francisco (Live) - 2024-05-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Storm Dance - 2023-10-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Zurich Concert - 2023-02-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Area sismica - 2020-06-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Solar Wind - 2020-01-27T00:00:00.000000Z

Désordre - 2019-09-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Double Bass - 2018-09-07T00:00:00.000000Z

Blue Memories (Live 2004) - 2015-10-13T00:00:00.000000Z

14 Rue Paul Fort, Paris - 2015-09-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Tout va monter - 2015-06-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Flowing Stream - 2014-06-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Evidence - 2013-10-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Conversations - 2012-10-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Solo (feat. Franck Medioni) - 2011-01-23T00:00:00.000000Z

The Space Between with Joëlle Léandre - 2010-01-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Live at Dunois - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Live In Israel - 2008-11-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Out of Nowhere - 2008-11-01T00:00:00.000000Z

A L'improviste - 2008-07-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Kor - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Freeway - 2007-05-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Winter in New York - 2006 - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z