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Composer/Musician Wayne Horvitz Releases New Album Inspired by Richard Hugo Poetry

Composer/Musician WAYNE HORVITZ Releases Some Places Are Forever Afternoon, Paying Tribute to Poet Richard Hugo

Release Date: July 10, 2015 (Songlines SGL 1614-2)

Composer: Wayne Horvitz 

Performers: Wayne Horvitz (piano, Hammond B-3, electronics), Ron Miles 
(cornet), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Peggy Lee (cello), Tim Young 
(guitar), Keith Lowe (bass), 

Eric Eagle (drums)

TRT: 58:13

Tracks: Money or a Story, Those Who Remain are the Worst, You Drink 
Until You are Mayor, Nothing Dies as Slowly as a Scene, All Weather is 
Yours No Matter How Vulgar?, The Beautiful Wives, for Jim and Lois 
Welch, In Some Other Home, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs, 
Last Place There, You Must Have Stayed Hours, Some Places are Forever 
Afternoon

SEATTLE, WA - Known for his multifaceted musical personality, 
composer/musician Wayne Horvitz ventures into progressively-inclined 
acoustic jazz and ultra-modern classicism in his latest album, Some 
Places Are Forever Afternoon. Written in honor of the iconic Northwest 
poet Richard Hugo (1923-82), Some Places Are Forever Afternoon is a 
full-length suite of 12 compositions influenced by different poems of 
Hugo's. A colorful 28-page booklet featuring the poems and complementary
 photos accompanies the CD. In its final iteration, Some Places Are 
Forever Afternoon will tour in Fall 2015 including stops in the 
Northwest where Hugo lived, loved or wrote about and a New York City 
premiere at Roulette; there will also be a world premiere of an 
orchestral work for Seattle Symphony and guitarist Bill Frisell. (See 
below for tour schedule.)

"It is Hugo's enduring love of music, rambling, and the places of the 
Northwest that inspired me to interpret his work," says Horvitz. Born in
 White Center, Hugo crisscrossed the Pacific Northwest, Idaho, and 
Western Montana before settling in Missoula, Montana. From West Marginal
 Way to La Push to the Union Bar Grill in rural Montana, Horvitz 
followed his footsteps and visited some of the people and places that 
inspired Hugo. "Having grown up in the culture of the 60s, I am always 
fascinated by the writers, poets, painters and musicians who were the 
precursors to the giant sea change that happened in the 60s."

Like much of Horvitz's oeuvre, Some Places Are Forever Afternoon is 
skillfully constructed by combining jazz sonorities and harmonies in a 
composed structure. At times haunting, his imaginative collage of 
pre-composed music peppered with improvisation exudes a jazz feel. 
According to Horvitz, the music directly reflects Hugo's poems. "Hugo's 
poems are inherently musical because of the way they sound, the way they
 read, and the way they are structured. Consequently, the music is 
fairly structured, really instrumental songs, which is not typical of my
 work." Written for septet, Some Places Are Forever Afternoon combines 
members of two of Horvitz's most successful groups, Sweeter Than the Day
 and the Gravitas Quartet. "I have been thinking about putting these two
 bands together for a while. These are some of my favorite musicians on 
the planet."

Horvitz, who turns 60 on September 1st, has gone from being a key figure
 on the 1980s downtown New York music scene (he was the first booker at 
the Knitting Factory in NY in 1986) to catalyst for another fertile 
scene in Seattle over the past two decades (he founded Seattle's 
performance venue, The Royal Room, in 2011). Considered one of America's
 most creative musicians, he has been called "delightful and original" 
by Mojo. According to The New York Times, Horvitz "has[d] an evened-out,
 coherent composing voice that contains[ed] bebop and rock, gospel hymns
 and country, free jazz and funk and midcentury film music and Charles 
Ives. There is[was] very little posturing or provocation or wackiness in
 it." 

About Wayne Horvitz

Wayne Horvitz (b. 1955) is a composer, pianist and electronic musician 
who has performed extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and 
North America. He is the leader of the Gravitas Quartet, Sweeter Than 
the Day, Zony Mash, The Four plus One Ensemble and co-founder of the New
 York Composers Orchestra. He has performed and collaborated with Bill 
Frisell, Butch Morris, John Zorn, George Lewis, Robin Holcomb, Fred 
Frith, Julian Priester, Michael Shrieve and Carla Bley, among others.

Commissioners include the NEA, Meet the Composer, Kronos String Quartet,
 Seattle Chamber Players, BAM, and Earshot Jazz. Collaborators include 
Paul Taylor, Liz Lerman, Bill Irwin and Gus Van Sant. Horvitz was 
recently awarded the 2015 MAP Grant (as well as two previous ones) and 
2015 McKnight Visiting Composers Program. Recent compositions include 
The Heartsong of Charging Elk based on the novel by James Welch and 55: 
Music and Dance in Concrete, a site-specific collaboration with dancer 
Yukio Suzuki and video artist Yohei Saito. He is the music programmer 
for The Royal Room, a performance venue in Seattle, Washington, and a 
professor of composition at the Cornish College of the Arts.

Fall 2015 CD Release Tour:

10.2 Myrna Loy Center for Performing Arts, Helena, MT

10.3 Top Hat Lounge, Missoula, MT

10.5 Cisel Hall at MSU, Billings, MT

10.7 Location TBA, Pt Townsend, WA

10.8 Creative Music Guild, Portland, OR

10.9 The Shedd, Eugene, OR

10.10 Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle, WA

10.11 Location TBA, White Center, WA

10.29 Seattle Symphony, Seattle, WA (premieres a new commissioned piece 
Those Who Remain by Horvitz featuring renowned jazz guitarist Bill 
Frisell)	

11.27-28 Roulette, Brooklyn, NY

from www.jazzcorner.com

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