Glenna Powrie

Although she are designed for straight-ahead settings, the brand new York-based electrical keyboardist/acoustic pianist Glenna Powrie has favored to devote a lot of her time for you to performing and composing fusion, jazz-funk, and crossover jazz. Powrie isn’t a indigenous New Yorker; the Canadian improviser was created and elevated in Vancouver, English Columbia, but she shifted to ny in 1985 to help expand her career like a musician/composer. Many jazz-oriented performers who proceed to NY from other towns are sidemen in hard bop or post-bop organizations and play a whole lot of Tin Skillet Alley specifications — even if indeed they eventually want to try out original materials and concentrate on fusion or avant-garde jazz, some may proceed the straight-ahead path to get their feet in the entranceway. Powrie, however, didn’t desire to confine herself towards the bop/specifications method. She was thinking about playing original materials, and unlike all the “Youthful Lions” who longed to check out in Wynton Marsalis’ footsteps, Powrie had not been a purist or a bop snob. Her key pad playing (which combines jazz with rock and roll, funk, and pop) was affected by fusionists like Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Joe Zawinul, and her composing continues to be affected by Corea’s Go back to Forever, Weather conditions Report (the music group that Zawinul co-led with saxophonist Wayne Shorter in the ’70s and ’80s), the Yellowjackets, as well as the Brecker Brothers (amongst others). Among the individuals who Powrie caused after arriving in NY in 1985 was drummer Jack port DeJohnette, who employed her to try out with his music group Special Model. Another musician she caused in the Apple was saxophonist Greg Osby, who created her debut record, Asha. In 1989, Powrie agreed upon with Muse and documented Asha, that was released the next year. Although the brand new York-based Muse was best-known for straight-ahead bop and post-bop, Asha is normally a fusion work that discovers Powrie became a member of by manufacturer Osby on alto and soprano sax, Kevin Eubanks on guitar, Tracy Wormworth or Darryl Jones on electrical bass, Eugene Jackson on drums, and Mino Cinelu on percussion. Powrie has no acoustic piano on Asha — totally electric powered keyboards and synthesizers — and she composed every one of the materials herself. However, the Vancouver indigenous only acquired a one-album cope with Muse, no even more Powrie albums had been released in the ’90s. When the entire year 2000 appeared, she was still a one-album musician — and her followers had been sorry that her just album had opted out of printing over time. Nonetheless, Powrie continued to be active on the brand new York picture and was still playing and composing in the first 2000’s.