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Joanne Brackeen
Background information
Birth name	Joanne Grogan
Born	(1938-07-26) July 26, 1938 (age 86) Ventura, California, U.S.
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician, educator
Instrument	Piano
Years active	1969–present
Website	joannebrackeenjazz.com

Joanne Brackeen (born Joanne Grogan; July 26, 1938) is an American jazz pianist and music educator.

Music career

Brackeen was born in Ventura, California, United States, and attended the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. She was a fan of pop pianist Frankie Carle before she became enamored of the music of Charlie Parker. In the 1950s she performed with Dexter Gordon, Teddy Edwards, and Charles Brackeen. She and Brackeen married and moved to New York City in 1965. She performed with Chick Corea, Freddie McCoy, and Ornette Coleman.

She played with Joe Henderson (1972–75) and Stan Getz (1975–77) before leading her own trio and quartet. She established herself as a cutting-edge pianist and composer through her appearances around the world, and her solo performances also established her reputation as an innovative and dynamic pianist. Her trios featured such noted players as Clint Houston, Eddie Gómez, John Patitucci, Jack DeJohnette, Cecil McBee and Billy Hart.

She served on the grant panel for the National Endowment for the Arts, toured the Middle East with the US State Department as sponsor, and had solo performances at Carnegie Hall.

She has recorded over 20 albums as a lead musician. She is currently a professor at the Berklee College of Music and at The New School.

Awards

• 2018 NEA Jazz Masters

Discography

As leader

As sideperson

With Arkadia Jazz All Stars

• Thank You, Duke!

With Art Blakey

• Jazz Messengers '70 (Catalyst, 1970)

With Stan Getz

• Getz/Gilberto '76 (Resonance, 1976 ) with João Gilberto
• Live at Montmartre (SteepleChase, 1977)

With Bob James

• All Around The Town (Tappan Zee/Columbia, 1981)

With Freddie McCoy

• Funk Drops (Prestige, 1966)
• Peas 'n' Rice (Prestige, 1967)
• Beans & Greens (Prestige, 1967)
• Soul Yogi (Prestige, 1968)

With Makanda Ken McIntyre

• A New Beginning (Passin' Thru, 2001)

With Buddy Terry

• Pure Dynamite (Mainstream, 1972)

With Freddie Hubbard

• Sweet Return (Atlantic, 1983)

References

1. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 311/2. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
2. ^ arwulf, arwulf. "Joanne Brackeen | Biography & History | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
3. "Berklee faculty profile Joanne Brackeen". Berklee faculty. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
4. "The New School Jazz Core Faculty". The New School. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
5. "Joanne Brackeen". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2017-12-22.

External links

• Official site
• Joanne Brackeen on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on NPR
• Berklee School of Music profile
• "A Woman of Many Hats", interview

• 1938 births
• Living people
• American jazz pianists
• Berklee College of Music faculty
• The New School faculty
• Musicians from Greater Los Angeles
• American women jazz pianists
• Antilles Records artists
• MPS Records artists
• Timeless Records artists
• Columbia Records artists
• American jazz educators
• California Institute of the Arts alumni
• Jazz musicians from New York (state)
• 20th-century American women pianists
• 20th-century American pianists
• 21st-century American women pianists
• 21st-century American pianists
• American women music educators
• American women academics