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Liston's career helped pave the way for women in jazz in roles other than as vocalists. Melba's professional career started on the legendary Central Avenue, where she became the first woman wind-instrumentalist in the Lincoln Theater pit orchestra conducted by Bardu Ali.
But she was a virtuoso trombone player as well.
Much of her most important work was written for the pianist Randy Weston, with whom …
2 Profil: American trombonist & arranger. She made a reputation as an important jazz arranger, no small achievement in a field generally dominated by men.
She was an actress and composer, known for Smile Orange (1976). She was an actress and composer, known for CD: $23.00.
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Melba Liston was one of them and the English Annie Whitehead, assured enough to appear naked with her horn on the sleeve of her last CD, was the other. Melba went into performance retirement and moved to Jamaica from 1973 to 1979, where she first taught at the University of the West Indies and then became director of Popular Music Studies at the Jamaica Institute of Music in Kingston.
Melba Liston was a trombone player who was nothing less than a force of nature.
Melba Doretta Liston (January 13, 1926 – April 23, 1999) was an American
Although a stroke in 1985 confined Melba to a wheelchair, she continued to compose and arrange, even learning computer music notation, until her death in 1999.
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Melba Liston.
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Melba Liston, Composer: Smile Orange. 4
Melba Liston Born in Kansas City, Melba moved to Los Angeles as a child, and became a working musician at age sixteen.
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From the seminal 1959 recording Other affiliations during the 1960s included co-leading a band with trumpeter Slowed by a stroke in 1985, which effectively ended her playing career, she was able to resume work as a composer and arranger in the 1990s through the aid of computer technology. She died on April 23, 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Growing up mostly in Los Angeles, some of her first work came during the 1940s with two West Coast masters: bandleader In the 1950s, Liston began a partnership that she would return to on and off for more than 40 years.
Melba Doretta Liston (January 13, 1926 – April 23, 1999) was an American
From the 1940s through the 1960s, she was the first woman trombonist to work in the leading big bands of Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Gerald Wilson, and Clark Terry.
She is, without question, one of the unsung heroes of the jazz genre.
Melba's professional career started on the legendary Central Avenue, where she became the first woman wind-instrumentalist in the Lincoln Theater pit orchestra conducted by Bardu Ali.
1 Melba Liston is best known as an arranger and composer, thanks to her associations with Dizzy Gillespie and subsequently Randy Weston. Melba Liston was an African-American musician who became a brilliant star of the jazz world.
Melba Doretta Liston (January 13, 1926 – April 23, 1999) was an American randyweston.info/randy-weston-sidemen-pages/melba-liston.html
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