Jazz Articles about George Hurd

George Hurd: Navigation Without Numbers

by Karl Ackermann
March 3, 2016

San Francisco-based composer George Hurd doesn't subscribe to any of the monolithic definitions around musical categories. In his own creative process he incorporates classical chamber music, home-grown electronics and acoustic instrumentation. Performed by the rotation of players making up his namesake ensemble, his debut album, Navigation Without Numbers, presents us with eleven Hurd original compositions that are both open and enterprising works. Although Hurd's work principally focuses on electro-acoustic music--joined with modern chamber--he has written classical music in ...