Glenn Horiuchi
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United States
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jazz
Jazz
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pianist, composer, and shamisen
Shamisen
The , also called is a three-stringed, Japanese musical instrument played with a plectrum called a bachi. The Japanese pronunciation is usually "shamisen" but sometimes "jamisen" when used as a suffix . -Construction:The shamisen is a plucked stringed instrument...
player. He was a central figure in the development of the Asian American jazz
Asian American jazz
Asian American jazz is a musical movement in the United States begun in the 20th century by Asian American jazz musicians.Although Asian Americans had been performing jazz music almost since that music's inception, it was not until the late 20th century when a distinctly Asian American brand of...
movement.
He gave performances all around the world for example 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, at Yale University, and Brown University.
Horiuchi performed with Joseph Jarman
Joseph Jarman
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, Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation.-Biography:...
, George Lewis
George Lewis (trombonist)
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, John Tchicai
John Tchicai
John Martin Tchicai is a Danish jazz saxophonist. He was one of the earliest European free jazz musicians. He is of Danish and Congolese descent....
, Art Davis
Art Davis
Art Davis was a double-bassist, known for his work with various seminal jazz musicians including Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach.-Biography:...
, Francis Wong
Francis Wong
Francis Wong is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, and erhu player.He is of Chinese descent; his father is from Shanghai and his mother is Cantonese. He specializes in the fusion of free jazz and Asian musics, and is a central member in the Asian American jazz movement...
, Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka is an American musician and composer who performs on the 17-string Japanese koto zither, often augmenting it with string preparations and electronic triggers...
, Tatsu Aoki
Tatsu Aoki
is a jazz double bass player and record producer.Aoki is an active musician in the field of Asian American jazz and is the founder and artistic director of...
, William Roper
William Roper
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, Mark Izu
Mark Izu
Mark Izu is an American jazz double bass player and composer. He is of Japanese ancestry and frequently combines jazz with Asian traditional musics in his compositions. He has performed with Anthony Brown and Jon Jang. Mark Izu is a seminal leader in the'Asian American Jazz movement...
, and San Jose Taiko. He recorded for the Asian Improv and Soul Note labels.
He also lectured and gave workshops at universities around the U.S. such as U.C. Berkeley, Wesleyan University, Northeastern University, and Stanford University. Horiuchi had many diverse talents and interests: besides attending graduate school in mathematics he had work experience as an auto mechanic, construction worker, and music teacher.
He lived as an artist in residence at the Japanese American National Museum
Japanese American National Museum
The opened its doors in 1992. The idea for the museum was originally thought up by Bruce Kaji with help from other notable Japanese American people at the time. The museum is located in the Little Tokyo an area near downtown Los Angeles, California. It is devoted to preserving the history and...
in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
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.
Horiuchi was diagnosed with colon cancer
Colorectal cancer
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in August 1999, and was consecrated a Zen master before he died on June 3, 2000.
Discography
Fair Play, Horiuchi, Soul Note 121328, 1999Elegy 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
External links
- Glenn Horiuchi
- Glenn Horiuchi page on Asian Improv site
See also
- Asian American jazzAsian American jazzAsian American jazz is a musical movement in the United States begun in the 20th century by Asian American jazz musicians.Although Asian Americans had been performing jazz music almost since that music's inception, it was not until the late 20th century when a distinctly Asian American brand of...