Art Lande

Art Lande ( born February 5, 1947 in New York City, New York) is an American jazz pianist, percussionist, composer and teacher.

Life and work

Art Lande grew up on Long Iceland and began five years with classical piano. His father, a jazz pianist, was friends with Teddy Wilson, and made him as early as possible with the music of Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson and Sarah Vaughan.

He went in 1969 to San Francisco and later to Berkeley. There, founded a land formation with drummer Glenn Cronkhite, saxophonist Mel Martin and bassist Eliot Zigmund, with which he appeared in 1973 at the Montreux Jazz Festival. In the same year he recorded with Ted Curson and Janne Schaffer and he published his first album of original compositions for ECM Records, where he plays in a duo with saxophonist and flutist Jan Garbarek. The title of the album, Red Lanta, was an anagram of his name, what he should use in the titles of his compositions more often.

In 1976, the country founded the quartet Rubisa Patrol, with trumpeter Mark Isham, bassist Bill Douglass and Glenn Cronkhite. This was later replaced by Kurt Wortmann. Rubisa Patrol played both jazz standards and original compositions. They played in the Bay Area of San Francisco and often toured Europe. The group played a two albums for ECM: Rubisa Patrol ( 1976) and Desert Marauders (1977). Then, the band released a third album, The Story Of Ba - Ku ( 1978), a California label. In addition, the country with Paul McCandless, Gary Peacock and Dave Samuels worked together.

Since the early 1980s, the country focused more on teaching. He taught first at the Cornish Institute in Seattle. After 1983, the country worked for three years in Switzerland, where he taught at the Jazz School in St. Gallen. In 1987, he moved to Boulder, Colorado to teach at Naropa University. In addition, the country has since played alongside his teaching career there with local musicians. Since the mid- 1990s the country also plays drums in different groups.

Art Lande is considered as a brilliant pianist in the tradition of Bill Evans ( Downbeat ) and convinces by its set of impressionistic chamber music for a quartet in which he created an atmosphere of stillness of the night. His reputation in Europe, the land acquired by his brief affair with the jazz label ECM, for which he recorded 1973-1981 three albums under his own name as well as Jan Garbarek and Mark Isham on their ECM albums accompanied at this time.