Wayne Horvitz

Sara Schoenbeck: Sara Schoenbeck

by Karl Ackermann
December 9, 2021

Sara Schoenbeck is cast against type in the world of bassoonists. The versatile double reed, broad-ranged instrument dates to the Renaissance and is commonly found in wind ensembles and chamber orchestras. But Schoenbeck has brought her classical-leaning instrument to creative music in an electrifying body of work. Her self-titled leader debut is the first such project of her career. A series of nine duets allows Schoenbeck to fully explore the scope of the bassoon in close settings. Not ...

Wayne Horvitz: Live Forever Vol. 1: The President - New York in the '80s

by Vic Albani
March 15, 2021

«Numero 1 della Live Forever Series: una collezione di spettacoli dal vivo curata da Wayne Horvitz e Toby Dodds. Il volume 1 contiene un imperversante set dal vivo al CBGBs nel 1987, con un “who's who" della scena downtown NY degli anni '80. Altre tracce includono quattro demo, materiale mai pubblicato dalle sessioni al Power Station per l'album Bring Yr Camera, precedenti demo in studio del 1984, e materiale da due spettacoli dal vivo, sempre al CBGBs, nel ...

Sara Schoenbeck/Wayne Horvitz: Cell Walk

by Dan Bilawsky
June 6, 2020

The relationship between Sara Schoenbeck, one of the only bassoon practitioners to truly and successfully fold the instrument's sound into the realm of chamber jazz, and pianist Wayne Horvitz, a touchstone in creative music, has been documented in the past. The work of Horvitz's Gravitas Quartet, formed in 2004 and featuring Schoenbeck alongside trumpeter Ron Miles and cellist Peggy Lee, is but one indicator of the way those two have managed to meld the roaming and refined into a single ...

Wayne Horvitz: Those Who Remain

by Neri Pollastri
February 21, 2020

L'imprevedibile Wayne Horvitz è qui nelle vesti esclusivamente di autore di due composizioni di stampo schiettamente classico, entrambe impreziosite dalla presenza di un solista improvvisatore. Il primo dei due lavori è un concerto per orchestra in due parti, per complessivi diciassette minuti, interpretato dalla Northest Sinfonia con Bill Frisell in veste di solista. Dopo una prima a Seattle nell'Ottobre del 2015, il disco è stato realizzato registrando separatamente orchestra e solista, per essere poi prodotto e missato dallo ...

The Wayne Horvitz European Orchestra: Live at the Bimhuis

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 12, 2019

Risale al 2014 Live at the Bimhuis, registrazione della European Orchestra di Wayne Horvitz presso la leggendaria venue olandese che festeggiava allora i quarant'anni di attività. Siamo circa un anno dopo la scomparsa di Lawrence “Butch" Morris, figura imprescindibile negli sviluppi della musica afroamericana, e non solo, dell'ultimo mezzo secolo. Oltre che nume tutelare di questa incisione, vuoi perché principale fonte di ispirazione per Horvitz fin dal suo arrivo in NYC nel lontano 1979, vuoi perché in Live at the ...

Wayne Horvitz, Geoff Harper, Eric Eagle: The Snowghost Sessions

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 8, 2019

Era dall'anno di grazia 1986 che Wayne Horvitz non incideva in trio--Nine Below Zero lo vedeva insieme a Butch Morris e Bobby Previte--e mai comunque nella formazione piano-tastiere/basso/batteria. Un ulteriore motivo di curiosità e di interesse riguardo la pubblicazione di The Snowghost Sessions, seduta di registrazione per certi versi anomala, a ruota libera, senza l'obiettivo specifico di incidere un disco. Piuttosto la messa in atto di un processo creativo libero da preconcetti, svincolato da obbligati riferimenti storici, ...

Wayne Horvitz: Those Who Remain

by Mario Calvitti
July 8, 2019

Conosciuto principalmente per le sue partecipazioni a vari progetti di John Zorn (in particolare nel gruppo Naked City), le collaborazioni con Bill Frisell, Bobby Previte e altri, e i gruppi da lui guidati come Zony Mash (e la versione acustica Sweeter Than the Day), Pigpen e Presidents, il tastierista Wayne Horvitz può vantare anche una intensa, per quanto meno documentata, attività di compositore orchestrale. Proprio a questa si riferisce il CD appena pubblicato, che riunisce due composizioni di Horvitz risalenti ...

Bassonist Sara Schoenbeck And Pianist Wayne Horvitz Will Release 'Cell Walk' On May 22

Source: GoMedia PR
May 4, 2020

New Album is Frequent Collaborators' Debut as a Duo Sara Schoenbeck and Wayne Horvitzhave been musical partners for 20 years, notably in Horvitz’s chamber jazz group The Gravitas Quartet (formed 2004) and his Some Days are Forever Afternoon project (2015, both on Songlines). They formed this duo in 2018 to play a program of their own music—composed, improvised, and everywhere in between, a study of the crossroads where texture and extended technique meet with and support the expression of melody ...
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Composer/Musician Wayne Horvitz Releases Two New Albums: The Snowghost Sessions (songlines) And Those Who Remain (national Sawdust Tracks) Featuring Guitarist Bill Frisell

Source: AMT Public Relations
October 6, 2018

Known for his multifaceted musical personality, composer/musician Wayne Horvitz displays his remarkably singular and distinguishable sound in two new recordings: his debut pianos/keys-bass-drums trio album The Snowghost Sessions (Songlines, October 5, 18) and his debut orchestral CD Those Who Remain (National Sawdust Tracks, October, 12 2018). Both are complemented by a nationwide tour culminating in a jny: New York City CD release concert at Brooklyn’s Roulette, December 5, 2018. (Please scroll below for complete tour schedule.) The Snowghost Sessions ( ...
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On CDs, LPs, Henderson And Horvitz

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
February 8, 2018

In the 1950s when UCLA football coach Red Sanders (pictured right) said, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing,” he could not have known that his sports philosophy would be adapted to virtually every human endeavor. Being number one is the overriding aim not only in sports, but also in politics and international relations—as we keep hearing from the White House—and in business and the arts. Hence, there is consternation at this week’s news trumpeted in Billboard magazine that sales ...
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Composer/Musician Wayne Horvitz Releases New Album Inspired By Poet Richard Hugo

Source: AMT Public Relations
July 12, 2015

Composer/Musician Wayne Horvitz Releases Some Places Are Forever Afternoon (Songlines), Paying Tribute to Poet Richard Hugo SEATTLE, WA — Known for his multifaceted musical personality, composer/musician Wayne Horvitz ventures into progressively-inclined acoustic jazz and ultra-modern classicism in his latest album, Some Places Are Forever Afternoon. Written in honor of the iconic Northwest poet Richard Hugo (1923-82), Some Places Are Forever Afternoon is a full-length suite of 12 compositions influenced by different poems of Hugo’s. A colorful 28-page booklet featuring the ...
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Wayne Horvitz at Rainier Vally Cultural Center

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
July 8, 2011

Friday, July 8, 7pm—Valley Vibes Jazz Series Wayne Horvitz's Sweeter Than the Day + Jazz Night School Performance Big Band

Rainier Valley Cultural Center 3515 S. Alaska Street, Columbia City

Admission is FREE, or by donation.

Wayne Horvitz's acoustic quartet Sweeter than the Day and the Jazz Night School Performance Big Band will perform, followed by a reception and conversation with musicians in the lower level.

Sweeter than the Day features pianist and composer ...
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Wayne Horvitz Curates first month of New Concert Series at University of the Streets

Source: Saadia Salahuddeen
September 20, 2010

FALL 2010 ANNOUNCEMENT OF UOTS CURATORS' SERIES University of the Streets is proud to announce the commencement of its Curators Series at their 75 seat Muhammad Salahuddeen Memorial Theatre on October 2nd. University of the Streets is a not-for-profit community organization established in 1969 which advocates for established and developing artists & musicians in the metropolitan area by assisting them to grow and succeed. The organization located at 130 East 7th Street, in the heart of the East VIllage provides ...
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Amorphous Improv That Ends Screeching to a Halt

Source: Michael Ricci
April 9, 2010

he keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, the alto saxophonist Briggan Krauss and the percussionist Le Quan Ninh gave it to us straight at the Stone in the East Village on Wednesday night. It was tabula-rasa free improvisation: about an hour long, aggressive but not signifying any particular school, loud and soft but mostly loud, way more gestural than narrative, instinctive, abstract, efficacious. Billed as the HNK Trio, these three had never played together before this year. Currently theyre touring five American cities, ...
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Wayne Horvitz - These Hills of Glory

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
November 2, 2009

Email from Wayne Horvitz about this performance this Wednesday, November 4: Dear Seattle Friends, If you come to one concert of mine this year, or even the next, or the one after that, please come on Wednesday November 4th to the Nordstrom Recital Hall for a very special performance of my chamber music. (1) The center piece of the evening will be my piece for string quartet plus improvising soloist entitled These Hills of Glory. The quartet will be performed ...
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Wayne Horvitz & Sweeter Than the Day Announce Ten Date West Coast Tour in March 2007

Source: All About Jazz
February 12, 2007

"On piano, Horvitz is economical yet lyrical, never venturing far from the strong melodic hooks which characterize his compositions, but constantly working small surprises." - THE WIRE UK Brooklyn, NY -- In March 2007, Wayne Horvitz and Sweeter Than The Day launch their first West Coast tour in more than a year. The ten date run will hit nine cities, launching in Santa Cruz and concluding in Wayne's hometown Seattle. For Wayne Horvitz, a musically dynamic composer, pianist and electronic ...
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Wayne Horvitz Displays Both Compositional and Improvisational Virtuosity on Two New Releases

Source: All About Jazz
May 25, 2006

Songlines' Way Out East Highlights Horvitz's Gravitas Quartet While Tzadik's Whispers, Hymn and a Murmur Features His Compositions Performed By Koehne Quartet

Between February and June of 2006, pianist and composer Wayne Horvitz will release two highly distinctive recordings that demonstrate the breadth and depth of his musical vision. On June 13, Songlines Recordings will release Way Out East, featuring the Gravitas Quartet, Horvitz' new improvising chamber ensemble. On Way Out East the group, comprised of four uniquely distinctive players ...
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