Jazz Articles about Wayne Horvitz

Wayne Horvitz/The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble: At The Reception, Wayne Horvitz: 55: Music And Dance In Concrete

by John Ephland
December 3, 2014

Wayne Horvitz is a musical universe unto himself. Has been for well over 35 years. And it's not just his stick-to-it-ive-ness that continues to make his music so damn engaging, a contrariness redefined. Consider these two recent releases as prime examples. The composer/bandleader/keyboardist (who turns 60 in 2015) has a musical history that just might grab you by the throat, if not coax you into some kind of mesmerizing trance. 55: Music And Dance In Concrete and At The Reception ...

Wayne Horvitz/The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble: At The Reception

by Mark Corroto
November 3, 2014

Wayne Horvitz already has lovely. It's a tool he wields with ease in his music, be it in his Gravitas Quartet of piano/trumpet/cello/bassoon, his Sweeter Than The Day acoustic quartet or the electric Zony Mash. He even brought lovely to John Zorn's shocking Naked City bands of the 1990s. Horvitz has the ability to distill music, be it classical, jazz, film, or free, down to the essence of melody and harmony.He applies that lovely to his little big ...

Wayne Horvitz: 55: Music and Dance In Concrete

by Glenn Astarita
September 21, 2014

Reviewed on LP, the only other option for this release is a digital download, but with the latter you won't get the sharp colorful booklet that includes photos of the corresponding dance moves, choreographed by Yukio Suzuki and Wayne Horvitz' detailed album notes. The album was recorded at an old military base, Fort Worden that is situated in a state park outside of Seattle. In fact, the Fort serves as an additional instrument, especially heightened by the inherent analog vinyl ...

Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet: One Dance Alone

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 6, 2009

Non è difficile intravedere piccole tracce di jazz nella musica di questo splendido quartetto da camera guidato dal geniale Wayne Horvitz. Con il pianista newyorkese, ormai residente a Seattle da oltre vent'anni, troviamo il violoncello della canadese Peggy Lee, la cornetta di Ron Miles e il fagotto di Sara Schoenbeck. Il suono è coeso ed elegante, la loro interazione si arrampica senza fatica attorno alla dorsale costituita dal pianoforte di Horvitz e scala vette algide e innevate che però non ...

Wayne Horvitz & Sweeter Than the Day: A Walk in the Dark

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 23, 2009

A Walk in the Dark è il quarto disco del gruppo Sweeter Than the Day e viene pubblicato a pochi mesi dal decimo compleanno di questo quartetto, ideato nel 1999 da Wayne Horvitz. Il CD è stato registrato nel dicembre del 2007, due giorni prima di One Dance Alone (Songlines) secondo disco del Gravitas Quartet, altra formazione di Horvitz. La coincidenza temporale non sembra essere del tutto casuale, non solo perché i due lavori condividono cinque pezzi su undici ("We ...

Wayne Horvitz & Sweeter Than The Day: A Walk In The Dark

by Martin Longley
October 11, 2008

This cumbersomely-named combo have been together for nearly a decade, just one of keyboardist Wayne Horvitz's many band projects. The concept appears to revolve around a desire to embrace an almost-acoustic modern traditionalism, while retaining a slightly skewed stance that recalls some of Horvitz's earlier forays into electro-groove. Lately, he appears to have forsaken that predilection for plugged-in keyboards, attending to the heart of the acoustic piano.

Wayne Horvitz Sweeter Than The Day: A Walk In The Dark

by Troy Collins
April 23, 2008

New York-born, Seattle-based keyboardist/composer Wayne Horvitz leads an eclectic variety of projects, including his chamber-esque Gravitas Quartet, which recently released a second recording, One Dance Alone (Songlines, 2008). His sublime semi-acoustic ensemble, Sweeter Than The Day, arose in 1999 from the ashes of his heavily electrified, Meters-inspired quartet, Zony Mash.

Sweeter Than The Day's third recording and first self-released album, A Walk In The Dark, follows the same melodically distinct contours as Sweeter Than The Day ...