glenn
horiuchi
Piano,
Shamisen, Composition
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As an improvisor and composer,
Glenn Horiuchi was indebted to the jazz avante garde, Asian traditions,
and Western classical music.
He had performances at
the Berlin Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Mexico's Japan
Fest, Seattle's Earshot Festival, Asian American Jazz Festival
in San Francisco and Chicago, New York's Japan and Asia Societies,
Los Angeles Festival, Edmonton's Jazz City Festival, Japan America
Theatre, Knitting Factory Piano Festival, Yale University and
Brown University.
He was the recipient of
composer fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
and California Arts Council, and grants from Meet the Composer,
LA Cultural Affairs, City of San Diego and San Diego Community
Foundation.
He had performed with
Joseph Jarman, Wadada Leo Smith, George Lewis, John Tchicai, Art
Davis, Francis Wong, Miya Masaoka, Tatsu Aoki, William Roper,
Mark Izu, Min Xiao Feng, Tom Buckner, San Jose Taiko, and Nobuko
Miyamoto.
Horiuchi gave talks and
workshops at the Japanese American National Museum, Wesleyan University,
Northeastern University, California Institute of the Arts, University
of Denver, Stanford University, University of Colorado, San Jose
State University, University of Southern California, and University
of California at Berkeley, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego,
and Santa Barbara.
Glenn Horiuchi had worked
as an auto mechanic, was a graduate student in mathematics, a
political activist, a construction worker, music teacher, and
was an ongoing student of Nagauta and zen. Glenn lived in Los
Angeles with his wife Edna and son Kenzo.
Glenn was diagnosed with
colon cancer in August 1999, and fought a courageous battle until
he passed away on June 3, 2000.
Discography
- Fair Play, Horiuchi,
Soul Note 121328, 1999
- Elegy for Sarajevo,
Asian Improv AIR-0035, 1999
- Pachinko Dream Track
10, Jarman/Horiuchi/Wong, Music and Arts CD-1040, 1998
- Dew Drop, Horiuchi,
Asian Improv AIR-0031, 1997
- Mercy, Horiuchi, Music
and Arts CD-962, 1997
- Hilltop View, Horiuchi,
Music and Arts CD-935, 1996
- Calling is It and Now,
Horiuchi, Soul Note 121268, 1995
- Kenzo's Vision, Horiuchi,
Asian Improv AIR-0022, 1995
- Live in Berlin, Horiuchi,
Asian Improv (cassette only), 1993
- Oxnard Beet, Horiuchi,
Soul Note 121228, 1992
- Poston Sonata, Horiuchi,
Asian Improv AIR-0008, 1992
- Little Tokyo Suite,
Horiuchi, Asian Improv (cassette only), 1992
- Manzanar Voices, Horiuchi,
Asian Improv AIR-0006, 1989
- Issei Spirit, Horiuchi,
Asian Improv AIR-0005, 1989
- Next Step, Horiuchi,
Asian Improv AIR-0002, 1988
- What's the Difference
Between, Miya Masaoka, Victo 0058, 1998
- Golden Hearts Remembrance,
Leo Smith, Chap Chap CPCD 002, 1997
- Pilgrimage, Francis
Wong, Music and Arts CD-974, 1997
- Devotee, Francis Wong/Genny
Lim, Asian Improv AIR-0030, 1997
- The Asian American Experience,
Primary Source Media 7909 (CD-Rom), 1997
- Sounds like 1996: Music
by Asian American Artists, IEL 0002 1996
- RMB Sampler, various
artists, Marc Sabatella, 1996
- Family, Anthony Brown,
Asian Improv AIR-0027, 1996
- Ming, Francis Wong,
Asian Improv AIR-0020, 1995
Critical
Excerpts
- "The scope of his
musical imagination parallels his virtuoso technique."
David Lewis, Cadence, 5/97.
- "Una musica estroversa
che ha assimilato las lezione avanguardistica di un Cecil Taylor,
e riporta all'interno di una scrittura che accoglie anchi ritmi
non europei, a volte minimali." Helmut Failoni, CD Classica,
9/96.
- "Glenn Horiuchi
se taille la part du lion avec son jeu de piano eclate mais
dense. Il s'est inspire des gestes quotidiens pour exprimer
sa musique, par exemple des gestes de son fils lorsqu'll dort
(d'ou le titre). Chacun des cinq titres a une histoire, triste,
dramatique ou au contraire joyeuse." Philippe Renaud, Improjazz,
9/95.
- "Four and 1/2 Stars...pioneering
evocative new musical combinations steeped in the traditions
of Asian and African-American music" Dan Oullette, Downbeat,
2/93.
- "Horiuchi has assimilated
urban jazz, country blues, atonal energy music and Japanese
tonalities into a coherent whole." Krin Gabbard, Cadence,
9/89.
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