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9 Horses

9 Horses is an improvising chamber ensemble featuring Joe Brent (formerly of Regina Spektor’s band) on acoustic and electric mandolin, 2018 GRAMMY nominee Sara Caswell (Esperanza Spalding) on violin and Hardanger d'amore, and Andrew Ryan (Kaia Kater) on bass. Featuring Brent's original compositions and the incendiary, genre-hopping virtuosity of all three members, the trio at the core of 9 Horses represents their vision of a musical future with no barrier between 'folk art' and 'fine art', and as an ensemble are capable of communicating this idea through musical canvases both great and small.

Strum

By Joe Brent

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024

Joe Brent

Called, “one of the truly exceptional musicians of his generation,” a mandolinist about whom it has been said, “there has never been a mandolinist with greater technical skills,” and a composer whose music, “touches and communicates the essence of what it means to be an alive, feeling human being,” Joe Brent has forged a career as both instrumentalist and composer with unparalleled fluency across multiple genres.

As a classical mandolinist, Mr. Brent has worked closely with many of the great modern composers, premiering works by Elliot Carter, Pierre Boulez, Magnus Lindberg, Olga Neuwirth, David Loeb, Nathan Davis, and Joe Hisaishi among many others. He has performed with many well-known chamber ensembles, including The International Contemporary Ensemble, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Argento New Music Project, Speculum Musicae, A Far Cry, Fireworks Music, Art of Élan, Tres Americas, NOVUS, and nunc. Concurrently, he is thoroughly versed in the traditional orchestral repertoire, having performed with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, New World Symphony, The American Symphony Orchestra, and the New York City Ballet and City Opera. As a solo artist, he has given recitals and clinics in North and South America, Europe, and Asia, made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2001, has lectured on contemporary music at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and was the 2017 artist in residence at Marble House Project.

Glenn Astarita's Best Recordings of 2021

by Glenn Astarita
January 2, 2022

No doubt, 2021 was a tumultuous year on many fronts, but the jazz world had a spectacular year in the recording studio and beyond, although live appearances were limited. Hence, the following is a top ten list (in no particular order) that highlight some of the superb recordings released during 2021. Steve Coleman ...

Omegah

By 9 Horses

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Omegah; S7rophe; a new machine; the grain of the wood of the frame; Max Richter’s Dreams; the water understands; all the beautiful Rockwood kids; let’s just make it me and you

Contemporary Chamber Trio 9 Horses Releases Its Second Full-length Album Omegah

August 6, 2021

Known for its virtuosity and wide-ranging stylistic flexibility, the post-genre band 9 Horses today announced the release of its double album Omegah (Adhyâropa Records). Featuring three of today’s leading instrumentalists, Joe Brent (mandolin), Sara Caswell (violin), and Andrew Ryan (bass), the band’s performance on this album gives listeners the opportunity to experience its organic evolution from ...

Blood From A Stone

By Joe Brent

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: redWHITEblue; bigLITTLE; we are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves; sportsNEWS

Perfectest Herald

By 9 Horses

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Monochrome Shoe; Snow Musik; Perfectest Herald: (Movement I) 4K; (Movement II) listening to the Elliott Smith discography in reverse order; (Movement III) the socket doesn't know its power until it's inspired by the plug; (Movement IV) when the wolf comes home.

9 Horses: Perfectest Herald

by Budd Kopman
October 13, 2015

Perfectest Herald is another release that stretches the label “jazz" or even that of “creative improvised music" as it casts its spell and ultimately becomes completely enveloping. 9 Horses, the trio put together by composer and mandolin virtuoso Joseph Brent, consists of two other extraordinary players: violinist Sara Caswell and bassist Shawn Conley who ...