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Biography/ Danish / Marilyn Mazur |
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Written by Richard
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Wednesday, 05 April 2006 |
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Marilyn Mazur (born 1955) is a percussionist, drummer, composer, vocalist, pianist, dancer, and bandleader. She was born in New York and has lived in Denmark from age six. She is of Polish and African-American descent. From 1975 she has worked as percussionist with various groups, among others the group Six Winds with Alex Riel. Mazur is primarily autodidact, but she has taken a degree in percussion at the Royal Danish Conservatory.
She has worked with many musicians: John Tchicai, Pierre Dørge (New Jungle Orchestra), Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen, Palle Mikkelborg, Arild Andersen, Eberhard Weber, Jan Garbarek, Miles Davis, and Gil Evans, to mention a few. The U.S. magazine Down Beat in 1989, 1990 and 1995 selected Mazur as a "percussion-talent deserving wider recognition". |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 April 2006 )
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