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BIOGRAPHY
An adventurous
and subtle improviser who has established himself
as a creative voice in jazz as a pianist, drummer,
composer, arranger and educator, Art Lande was
born in 1947 in New York City and studied classical
piano there under Joseph Kahn. He attended Williams
College before moving to San Francisco in 1969
and during the early 1970s played electric piano
in a jazz quintet with Steve Swallow. In 1973
Lande recorded in a duo with Jan Garbarek and
with the Ted Curson’s septet and in 1976
he formed Rubisa Patrol, a quartet that regularly
visited Europe and made its recording debut that
year on ECM Records. He left Rubisa Patrol in
1983 to teach for three years at a jazz school
in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and in 1987 moved
to Boulder, CO, where he still resides, to teach
at the Naropa Institute. Lande, whose work as
a pianist considerably advanced the harmonic innovations
pioneered by Bill Evans, has worked with Chet
Baker, Woody Shaw, Kenny Wheeler, Gary Peacock,
Ernie Watts, Charlie Haden, Eddie Harris, Joe
Henderson, Sheila Jordan, Mark Isham and Paul
McCandless among others and over the years has
mentored emerging improvisers and composers in
the Denver-Boulder area, North America and abroad.
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