Jazz Articles about Rex Horan

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Album Review

In the summer of 2023, pianist Neil Cowley wandered into Leipzig's St. Thomas Church, where Johann Sebastian Bach had spent much of his working life, and nearly stepped upon the composer's gravestone beside the altar. A fugue sounded from the organ overhead, its contrapuntal architecture suspended above the mortal remains of the imagination that had conceived it. Between these two registers of existence, Cowley experienced a sudden inundation of memory. The countless hours of childhood practice returned, bearing the mathematical ...

Album Review

Neil Cowley Trio: Entity

by Chris May
October 9, 2024

British pianist Neil Cowley put his trio on hold in 2017 to go solo. Entity marks the return of the group, which is completed by bassist Rex Horan and drummer Evan Jenkins. This is their eighth album since 2006, and the fourth with Horan in the lineup (Jenkins has been present from the start). The press materials accompanying the album include a statement from Cowley about the need for “human push back" against the potentially malign aspects of digital technology, ...