In 2011 Joelle Leandre celebrates her 60th birthday. Two years earlier she had two
performances at the Ulrichberg Kaleidophon in Austria. First with the tentet, then in a
trio with the veterans of new music pianist John Tilbury and drummer Kevin Norton. This
double CD has been recorded live at the Kaleidophon. The piece performed by a tentet
of young and talented musicians was composed and notated while the trio performance
was improvised. Having composed music since 1974, Joelle does not differentiate between
composition and improvisation and her immaculate sense of form and structure make her
improvised pieces sound like compositions and vice versa.
Joelle Leandre : double bass
Susanna Gartmayer : clarinets
Boris Haus : saxophones
Lorenz Raab : trumpet
Bertl Mütter : trombone
Burkhard Stangl : electric guitar
Thomas Wally : violin
Elaine Koene : viola
Melissa Coleman-Zielasko : cello
Kevin Norton : percussion