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Ron Horton/Tim Horner Little Big Band Plays the Music of Andrew Hill in Teaneck, N. J.
by Ralph A. Miriello
The Ron Horton/Tim Horner Little Big BandPlay the Music of Andrew HillThe Puffin Cultural ForumTeaneck, New JerseyAugust 29, 2009
It was a warm, overcast evening, within a few short miles of the George Washington Bridge, in suburban Teaneck, that offered the rare opportunity to make the trek to the Puffin Cultural Forum to listen to some innovative jazz from a newly-formed group. Trumpter/arranger Ron Horton and drummer Tim Horner's Little Big Band was scheduled to ...
Continue ReadingRon Horton feat. Antonio Zambrini: It's a Gadget World...
by AAJ Italy Staff
Cosa può accadere se, quasi per caso (un contrattempo blocca il pianista del gruppo), si incontrano tre vivaci e prolifici personaggi della scena creativa newyorchese, membri del Jazz Composer's Collective, con un artista schivo, riflessivo, compositore e pianista di talento come il nostro Antonio Zambrini? Un gran bel disco! Nelle note di copertina Zambrini afferma che il suono della tromba di Horton è uno dei più belli che gli sia mai capitato di sentire. Non possiamo che essere d'accordo e ...
Continue ReadingBen Allison: Medicine Wheel
by Troy Collins
Bassist Ben Allison was a virtual unknown when this album was originally released by Palmetto in 1998. After Seven Arrows (Koch, 1996), this was Allison's first major release. Combining conservatory training, ethnic/world music fusions, post-bop energy and free-jazz vigor, Allison and company were on the cusp of a new movement. Listening to this recording in retrospect reveals a blueprint for the new breed of jazz improviser. Medicine Wheel is a watershed moment in end of the century East Coast jazz.
Continue ReadingRon Horton: Everything In A Dream
by Troy Collins
Like many of his peers, trumpeter/composer Ron Horton is conservatory-trained, with an equitable view of both the classic jazz tradition and the structural innovations of post-war free jazz. Epitomizing the new face of the creative mainstream, Horton is equal parts swinging hard bop stylist, modern classicist and exploratory avant gardist. All these facets appear on Everything In A Dream, Horton's most definitive statement as a leader--his third overall and second for the Fresh Sound label.
His previous album, ...
Continue ReadingRon Horton: Subtextures
by Peter Aaron
On Subtextures, Ron Horton's sophomore release as a leader, the trumpeter/fluegelhornist continues his striking, impressionistic approach of synthesizing the free-ranging, out sounds of modernity with the softer, melodic palette of chamber music, a vision he unveiled to the jazz world's delight on 1999's Genius Envy (OmniTone). Horton's racked up some excellent experience over the course of his nearly 30-year career, playing with legendary composer/pianist Andrew Hill, as well as in the Jazz Composers Collective, a vital New ...
Continue ReadingRon Horton: Subtextures
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Trumpeter Ron Horton established a reputation as a player’s player—able to hear, and provide, whatever the music needed—through his gigs with pianist Andrew Hill, saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom and the many faces of the Jazz Composers Collective. Subtextures, his second CD as a leader, highlights his considerable talents as a composer and arranger. With the support of long time musical cohorts—pianist Frank Kimbrough and the busy rhythm team of bassist Ben Allison and drummer Matt Wilson—Horton’s cleanly phrased trumpet confidently ...
Continue ReadingRon Horton: Subtextures
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter/flugelhornist Ron Horton came onto my radar—floating on a cloud, it seemed—on Andrew Hill's Dusk (Palmetto, 2000). His solo on that disc's stunningly beautiful title track drifted and roiled with a understated, dreamy poetic grace, a song within a song, a personalized expansion of Hill's theme. The approach on Subtextures is much the same.The recording opens with an Andrew Hill composition, “Cantarnos," and includes four Horton originals; a Chopin piece; pianist Frank Kimbrough's “Rumors"; and Horton's take on ...
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