Person · Female
Marilyn Crispell
pianist
- From
- Philadelphia, United States
- Since
- 1947–present
- Releases
- 70
- jazz
- free jazz
About
Marilyn Crispell (born March 30, 1947) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Scott Yanow described her as "a powerful player... who has her own way of using space... She is near the top of her field." Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote: "Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano... She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz." In addition to her own extensive work as a soloist or bandleader, Crispell is known as a longtime member of saxophonist Anthony Braxton's quartet in the 1980s and '90s.
Member of
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Anthony Braxton Quartet piano
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Ivo Perelman Quartet piano
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Barry Guy New Orchestra piano
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Scott Fields Ensemble piano
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Deep Memory Trio piano
Discography
Albums
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Spirit Music
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Rhythms Hung in Undrawn Sky
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And Your Ivory Voice Sings
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Gaia
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Works for Piano, Toy Piano & Prepared Piano, Vol. III
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Overlapping Hands: Eight Segments
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Piano Duets (Tuned & Detuned Pianos)
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Duo
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Santuerio Apple Music
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Band On The Wall
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Any Terrain Tumultuous
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Inference
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MGM Trio
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Natives and Aliens
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Nothing Ever Was, Anyway. Music of Annette Peacock Apple Music
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Double Trouble Two
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Red
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Amaryllis
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Blue Apple Music
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Odyssey
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Poetic Justice
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Ithaca
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Shifting Grace
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Geggie Project
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Vignettes Apple Music
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Phases of the Night
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One Dark Night I Left My Silent House
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This Appearing World
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Gryffgryffgryffs Apple Music
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Play Braxton
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Azure
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Parallel Moments
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Beautiful Empty Fullness
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Deep Memory
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Songs Along the Way
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The Adornment of Time
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Trio Tapestry
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Streams
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Our Daily Bread
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spi-raling horn
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Crispell-Andersson-Østergaard
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a reflection distorts over water
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Four Fold
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The Montclair Session
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Memento
Singles
Live
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Odes and Meditations for Cecil Taylor
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Parallel Moments Unbroken
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Collaborations Live at the Nya Perspektiv Festivals 2004 & 2007 Apple Music
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Live At Vision Festival
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The Woodstock Concert, 1995
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Pianosolo — A Concert in Berlin
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Contrasts (Live at Yoshi's, 1995)
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Complicité Apple Music
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After Appleby
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Connecting Spirits
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Five Facings
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Destiny
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Hyperion
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Cascades
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Live at Mills College, 1995
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For Coltrane Apple Music
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Live in San Francisco Apple Music
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Labyrinths Apple Music
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Quartet Improvisations – Paris 1986
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Live in Berlin Apple Music
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Table of Changes
Compilations
Links
Listen
Official
Concerts
Buy
Tags
- jazz and blues
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- 36b04562-e2f6-4e11-978a-fb92ddecdbf8
- ISNI
- 0000000114920287
- IPI
- 00052456195
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 8 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.