Dominique Eade
Dominique Eade Frances ( born June 16, 1958 in Ruislip, England) is an American jazz singer, pianist, music educator, songwriter and composer.
Life and work
Dominique Eade is the daughter of a U.S. Air Force officer and a Swiss. She grew up alternately in the United States and Europe; As a child she had piano lessons as a teenager, she learned to play guitar, playing folk, pop and jazz songs and also wrote their own songs. Your first appearances they had in cafes in Stuttgart, where she attended high school. She then moved to the Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, where she studied English; in addition, she sang in the jazz formation Naima, who was also Joe McPhee. She changed for a short time to Berklee College of Music and completed her studies at the New England Conservatory ( NEC) in Boston from where the pianist Ran Blake an important mentor and colleague was.
After graduating, she taught at the NEC and was beside active in the local jazz scene of the city. She worked among others with Mick Goodrick, Donald Brown and Bill Pierce; they also occurred in the United States and in Europe, where she also took part in workshops. In addition to the jazz she also acted as an interpreter of contemporary music and worked as a soloist in the formations Boston Musica Viva, Composers in Red Sneakers and NuClassix with. Eade has also performed with the jazz band Orange Then Blue and the Either / Orchestra. In 1987 she started the first jazz artist in the context of the NEC Artist Diploma program to study with Dave Holland and Stanley Cowell.
In 1990 she moved to New York City, where soon came her first solo album, The Ruby and the Pearl, where Alan Dawson and Stanley Cowell participated. In addition to her work in New York, she continued to teach at NEC in Boston and joined in two operas by Anthony Braxton, further comprising a trio of Gene Bertoncini, Ben Street and Kenny Wollesen, with whom she appeared in the East Village, also with a duo of Mark Helias and Peter Leitch. It was followed by engagements at The Village Gate, Five Spot, Birdland, Visiones and Cornelia Street Cafe, where she was accompanied by musicians such as Ira Coleman, Larry Goldings, John Medeski, Fred Hersch, Kevin Hays, James Genus, Gregory Hutchinson and Tom Rainey. With Bruce Barth, George Mraz and Lewis Nash then took on a second album, My Resistance is Low.
Before returning to Boston in 1996 Eade signed a record contract with the label RCA Records, for which she grossed two more albums, When the Wind What Cool ( a tribute album for June Christy and Chris Connor, Benny Golson, Fred Hersch, James Genus, and Matt Wilson), and the Long Way Home ( with Dave Holland and Victor Lewis), for which she also wrote her own songs and arranged.
Then they toured the U.S. and Europe; however, in order more to take care of her family, she was confined soon to appear in the Boston area and work as a composer. In 2001, she recorded some songs for Columbia Records. In 2006, she played another material with pianist Jed Wilson, who was her student at NEC ( Open). Eade joined then also again in New York with Ran Blake in a duo, then with Jed Wilson, Ben Street, Matt Wilson quartet line-up, and in a duo with guitarist Brad Shepik.
Eade lives with her husband, saxophonist Allan Chase, and her two sons in Boston.
Awards
Dominique Eade was in 1988 awarded several times with the Boston Music Awards; In 1998, she won at the singers the Kritikerpoll Downbeat as " Talent Deserving Wider Recognition". My album My Resistance Is Low has highlighted as one of the Top Ten Jazz CDs of 1995 Billboard.
Disco Graphical Notes
- The Ruby and the Pearl (Accurate Records, 1990)
- My Resistance is Low (Accurate Records, 1994)
- When the Wind What Cool (RCA, 1997)
- The Long Way Home (RCA, 1998)
- Dominique Eade / Jed Wilson: Open ( Jazz Project, 2006)
- Ran Blake / Dominique Eade: Whirlpool ( 2011)