Marion Hayden

Marion Hayden is among very few feminine jazz bassists, in her case figuring out to stay near house while becoming one of the most enduring instrumentalists in the Midwestern USA. Delivered in Detroit, MI, in 1952, she actually is the girl of Marion and Herbert Hayden, her dad a devoted record collector and jazz pianist himself. Developing through to the industrial western world side from the Electric motor City, she used piano at age nine, accompanied by the upright acoustic bass at 12. In the summertime Metro Arts plan she fulfilled Wendell Harrison and Marcus Belgrave, who become instructors, and with time lifelong collaborators. Hayden went to Cass Tech SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and graduated from Henry Ford SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, got classes at Michigan Condition University or college and the University or college of Michigan, getting a liberal arts level with a in entomology. She required a position using the Michigan Division of Agriculture while operating the nightclub circuit playing jazz with Belgrave, pianist Charles Boles, Teddy Harris, Jr., the Jimmy Wilkins Orchestra, Friend Budson, LaMonte Hamilton, saxophonist George Benson, Marvin “Doc” Holladay, Randy Gelispie, Donald Walden, Kenn Cox, and Stan Booker. Quickly disillusioned using the jazz picture in the first ’80s, she required a two-year hiatus before her profession was revived through playing once again with Cox, & most notably grasp percussionist Roy Brooks in his combo the Artistic Truth. For a while while wedded to guitarist Expenses Banfield, she done joint tasks with him including symphonic and cinematic music reflecting her traditional training. Following that her career became popular among the founding users from the all-female outfit Venus, accompanied by the music group Right Ahead in cooperation with Regina Carter. As the music group was authorized to Atlantic Information, the staff of Straight Forward changed; mainly because Carter started a solo profession, vocalist Michelle Braden was changed by Cynthia Dewberry and Hayden, pianist Eileen Orr, and drummer Gayelynn McKinney continued. As the industrial scenery for jazz transformed, so too do Hayden’s concentrate, playing in both R&B and mainstream contexts. This flexibility led her to a multitude of engagements, but also offered her the chance to become high-level educator. She became a teacher of bass training in the jazz division of Tri-C University in Cleveland, OH, and was set up in the faculty in the University or college of Michigan College of Music. She’s performed or documented with such jazz veterans as Kirk Lightsey, Ralph Peterson, Jr., Terry Callier, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Lot of money, Kenny Burrell, Steve Turre, Cecil Bridgewater, fellow Detroiter Adam Carter, and countless various other professionals transferring through. Straight Forward have maintained an area existence beyond their recordings, while Hayden can be heard using the music group of saxophonist Allen Barnes, and it is an associate of the present day Jazz Messengers led by drummer Sean Dobbins. Her single CD Visions premiered in 2008, and she’s composed a collection predicated on the writings of poet Phyllis Wheatley.