Phoebe Legere

PHOEBE LEGERE has played with Warren Vache, John Zorn, Don Cherry, Cecil Payne, Charles ‘Bo Bo’ Shaw, Frank Vignola, Earl May, Dennis Charles, Greg Haynes, Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell, Rufus Thomas, John Hartford, Ikue Morie, Morgan Powell, Howie Smith, Jim Staley, Larry Rivers and David Bowie. Legere studied composition with Morton Subotnick, Dinu Gezzo, and Milton Babbitt protege Wayne Oquin; and jazz with John Lewis of MJQ, Ira Newborn, and Rich Shemaria.

Her new band is called The Ooh La La Coq Tail. 'I'm putting Musette, Jazz and Blues together. For the past 10 years I've been making New Classical, Native American, and Experimental Jazz records, using invented instruments, wearable computers, and adventurous open structures. Suddenly, I felt like going back to basics: hand - made, virtuosic, and very American jazz music sung in that very North American language: French.' The Ooh La La Coq Tail plays everything from Duke Ellington to Gershwin to Abenaki/Penobscot traditionals to the music of Phoebe Legere.


The Ooh La La Coq Tail is:

Phoebe Legere, Jon Burr (bass) who has played with Stephan Grapelli, Dorothy Donegan,and a host of major international jazz artists, Aaron Weinstein (violin), who plays with Bucky Pizzarelli, and Elvis Sinatra (Darius Brubeck) on guitar and vocals.



'Phoebe Legere has a magnificent voice, a wild sense of humor...She is an extremely intelligent Vassar graduate who can play four or five instruments and challenge every premise you might have about her as she zips through her set - her song selections are impeccably chosen. (She has) a dazzling voice - a superb singer miles above most of the rock stars of today ...a comic mind... She turns excess and extravagance into an art form and anchors it with stunning simplicity. ' - New York Post


' Legere is clearly ready for mainstream success. Legere's fine, four-octave voice easily goes from horn like contralto to crystal soprano. There's a winsome sweetness...and an aching, longing... rare originality and vitality...' - Variety


'The Female Frank Zappa'- Roman Kozak, Billboard Magazine