Lori Freedman
An important figure in Canadian avant-garde music, both in contemporary music and free improvisation, Lori Freedman has been hard at work since the early ‘90s elevating the bass clarinet to a higher status. She has performed across Canada with orchestras, premiering a number of works written for her. Additionally, she has played throughout North America and Europe as an improviser. She is best known as one half of the avant-garde jazz duo Queen Mab. Freedman's career started among orchestras, including tenures in the Winnipeg and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras. In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, she was already involved in interdisciplinary performances with dancers and visual artists, and experimented with MIDI interfaces and electro-acoustics (she can be heard on Daniel Scheidt's 1991 CD Action/Réaction). In 1992 she formed Queen Mab with pianist Marilyn Lerner. A duo of rare beauty showing an uncanny level of interplay and telepathic understanding, they have appeared at numerous jazz and new music festivals in Canada and recorded two albums, Barbie's Other Shoe (1997) and Close (2000). The pair is also featured as part of the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, one of Freedman's lightest involvements. In 1998, Freedman received the Freddie Stone Award "for the demonstration of outstanding leadership, integrity, and excellence in the area of Contemporary Music and Jazz." A year later she released her first solo CD, Huskless!, a collection of contemporary works for bass clarinet. In 2001 she spent three months in Amsterdam working on compositions with Louis Andriessen and Misha Mengelberg and seized the opportunity to perform with a number of European improvisers, including Maggie Nichols, Luc Houtkamp, Ab Baars, Kaffe Matthews, and Ig Henneman. Back in Canada she moved from the West Coast to Montreal where she befriended the Ambiances Magnétiques community. There she premiered her Lori Freedman Trio (with Nicolas Caloia and Danielle P. Roger) in July 2002 and released her first solo CD as an improviser, À un Moment Donné.
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Discography
9 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Ana Sokolović: Folklore imaginaire
Julie Trudeau, Alain Giguere, Lori Freedman, Guy Pelletier, Ensemble Transmission, Brigitte Poulin
Kamermuziek - Released by Naxos on 4 mrt. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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HISCOTT: Blue Ocean: The Music of Jim Hiscott (Jim Hiscott)
Klassiek - Released by CBC on 16 mrt. 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Solor
Klassiek - Released by Ambiances Magnétiques on 21 apr. 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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À un moment donné
Rock - Released by Ambiances Magnétiques on 1 jan. 2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Huskless!
Lori Freedman, Nicola Everton, Christopher Cauley, Marilyn Lerner, Paul Plimley, Pierre Tanguay
Klassiek - Released by Centrediscs on 4 sep. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo