Jazz Articles about Wayne Horvitz

Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet: One Dance Alone

by Troy Collins
April 8, 2008

A veteran of the early eighties Downtown New York scene, keyboardist and composer Wayne Horvitz's relocation to the West Coast two decades ago has found him leading numerous projects, from large ensembles to solo performances. The Gravitas Quartet is one of his most recent forays, a chimerical union of neo-classical restraint, post-rock ambience and jazz improvisation.

Following up their Songlines debut, Way Out East (2007) with One Dance Alone, the quartet moves closer to the chamber music austerity ...

Wayne Horvitz: Way Out East

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 11, 2006

Il bellissimo paesaggio innevato che campeggia nella splendida foto panoramica in bianco e nero, che ha come lontano soggetto una veduta di Praga con il castello Hradcany e che fa da copertina a questo album delicato e fragrante, è la perfetta rappresentazione di uno dei mondi che abitano la mente fervida di Wayne Horvitz. Questa è una musica rarefatta, in quartetto, un po’ malinconica, molto invernale, splendida nella sua capacità di condensare emozioni. Una musica che costruisce morbidamente la sua ...

Wayne Horvitz: Whispers, Hymns and A Murmur

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 11, 2006

Wayne Horvitz è alla ricerca di qualcosa. Forse neppure lui sa ancora cosa, ma certamente sa come affrontare questa fase interlocutoria della sua carriera. Dopo essere stato uno dei personaggi di punta della scena downtown newyorchese nella seconda metà degli anni ottanta, principalmente con Bill Frisell, con Bobby Previte, con Elliott Sharp e con John Zorn, si è spostato a Seattle e ha proseguito il suo intelligente percorso con il gruppo Zony Mash e con altri progetti collaterali che ogni ...

Whispers, Hymns And A Murmur / Way Out East

by Kurt Gottschalk
July 21, 2006

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Guitarist Bill Frisell lost some fans, but gained many more, with his much ballyhooed departure from New York and the decibel level the city represents. Most of that reaction was based not on Frisell's own ...

Wayne Horvitz: Way Out East

by Troy Collins
June 30, 2006

Keyboardist and composer Wayne Horvitz's new improvising chamber group, the Gravitas Quartet, makes its Songlines debut with Way Out East. In a set that's reminiscent of his previous rhythm section-less unit, the Four plus One Ensemble, Horvitz and company premiere an accessible set of evocative chamber jazz that's both austere and experimental, unified by Horvitz's lyrical writing.

Horvitz once dabbled in an array of old school electronic effects and vintage keyboards, from Hammond organ to DX-7, but he ...

Wayne Horvitz: Intersection Poems & Live

by AAJ Staff
July 11, 2005

Wayne Horvitz has always succeeded in being an unclassifiable master, his music bordering the worlds of jazz, rock, experimental, and contemporary classical. With these two releases come two sides to the multifaceted pianist/keyboardist.

Horvitz/Samworth/Lee/Clarke/van der Schyff Intersection Poems Spool 2005

With Intersection Poems, Horvitz collaborates for the first time with the Vancouver-based quartet Talking Pictures. The one-time prime Downtown NYCer, now Seattle-based, Horvitz experiments with the interactive sound of three ...

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 ...