Jazz Articles about Robin Holcomb

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 ...

Robin Holcomb and Talking Pictures with Wayne Horvitz: The Point of It All

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 25, 2012

In questi tempi tormentati e dilaniati, solo i poeti sanno indicare il cammino. E Robin Holcomb è una poetessa coi controfiocchi e ovviamente non sbaglia questa ennesima rarefatta occasione. Sono con lei il marito tastierista Wayne Horvitz e un manipolo di eccellenti musicisti canadesi che oscillano operativamente fra Vancouver e Seattle, certamente uno degli snodi geografici più importanti per la nuova musica di oggi. Le raffinate composizioni di Robin Holcomb danno spazio anche a riletture interessanti che si spostano, elegantemente ...

Robin Holcomb: Distinctive Mysteries

by Gordon Marshall
February 14, 2011

Robin Holcomb's songs are knotty like tumbleweeds, braided like roads on maps along which tumbleweeds roll. She lays her songs down like baskets that have the rustic grace of birds' nests, always on the verge of promising a truth, but brimming with natural mysteries. Mysteries accrue, creating a keen urge to get at the kernel of their solution, but the singer, poet and pianist keeps pushing it back, shuttling her audience back and forth between the search for that meaning, ...

Robin Holcomb and Talking Pictures with Wayne Horvitz: The Point of It All

by John Kelman
November 8, 2010

An unspoken rule amongst musicians is: don't date someone in the band, let alone marry them. Still, there are exceptions, one of the most notable being the husband/wife team of singer/songwriter Robin Holcomb and keyboardist Wayne Horvitz. Together for three decades, they've intersected when the time is right, while still maintaining absolute independence through their rich, individual discographies. Holcomb first came to attention with two records for Elektra/Nonesuch--Robin Holcomb (1990) and the especially fine Rockabye (1992), which married an affinity ...

Wayne Horvitz: Joe Hill: 16 Actions for Orchestra, Voice, and Soloist

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 19, 2009

Wayne Horvitz giunge ad uno snodo epocale della sua eccellente carriera con questo ambizioso e riuscito progetto affidato ad una grande orchestra di stampo classico, con l’aggiunta preziosa delle voci della moglie Robin Holcomb, del fido Danny Barnes e di Rinde Eckert. E con le importanti evoluzioni solistiche assicurate dalla magica chitarra di Bill Frisell. I testi sono stati scritti da Paul Magid, dei Flying Karamazov Brothers. Il progetto nasce con il supporto di varie Fondazioni, fra le quali ci ...

Robin Holcomb/Wayne Horvitz: Solos

by AAJ Staff
November 13, 2004

You can unbuckle your seat belt with this one, because it's not going to hurt to lean forward and listen closely. Two pianists who share more than just overlapping interests in music, Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz are life partners as well. Their first co-billed collaboration on record (after multiple shared appearances) comes in the form of a collection of solo piano pieces, including eight originals, three covers, and three free improvisations. These pieces, which are mixed up in sequence ...

Wayne Horvitz/Tucker Martine: Mylab

by Mark Corroto
February 4, 2004

For Wayne Horvitz and Tucker Martine, the pair known as Mylab, the saying “everything old is new again” should be restated as “Everything New is Old again!”

This studio experiment by the duo (with 17 of their closest friends) samples and loops folk recordings from the turn of the century to create song structures, then replaces those samples with guest musicians. They mash (part Zony) funk, blues, trip-hop, soul, folk, and African music into a roots music played ...