Andrew Homzy

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Andrew Homzy (born October 31, 1945 in Toledo , Ohio ) is an American jazz musician (piano, tuba, arrangements, composition), conductor and musicologist .

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Homzy received tuba lessons from Harvey Phillips and studied music until 1967 at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio . After completing his bachelor's degree, he completed a master's degree in musicology at McGill University in Montreal , where he also taught. Until 1972 he taught at Sir George Williams University , which became Concordia University in 1974 . After working as a studio musician, but also for ballet, opera and the local symphony orchestra as well as the Vic Vogel Big Band and as leader of his own bands such as Saxophone No End(1975-77) brought him back to Concordia University in 1977. Homzy Jazz taught there and from 1980 onwards he headed the jazz program as Associate Professor. In 1984 he founded the Andrew Homzy Jazz Orchestra , which was dedicated to the repertoire of classical jazz arrangements, but also performed new works by Francy Boland and Stan Tracey's Genesis .

As a musicologist, Homzy worked intensively on the legacies of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus , whose extensive epitaph opus he rediscovered and reconstructed together with Gunther Schuller to such an extent that it was successfully performed in 1989. He also reconstructed Ellington's Jump for Joy , which he presented in 1991 with the Bill Berry Orchestra in Los Angeles . Between 1989 and 1994 he transcribed numerous classical jazz arrangements for performance with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra . He also wrote his own compositions and numerous big band arrangements for Mingus compositions. He also wrote the liner notes for some re-releases of classic jazz albums.

Fonts

  • Charles Mingus: More than a fake book. Hal Leonard Publishing, Milwaukee WI 1991, ISBN 0-7935-0900-9 .
  • Me And You: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. The Village Voice - Jazz Supplement, June 23, 1992
  • Black, Brown and Beige in Duke Ellington's Repertoire, 1943-1973. Black Music Research Journal 1993

literature

  • John Gilmore: Who's Who of Jazz in Montreal: Ragtime to 1970. Véhicule Press, Montreal 1989, ISBN 0-919890-92-X .
  • Mark Miller: The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada and Canadians in Jazz. Mercury Press, 2001, ISBN 1-55128-093-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1997 he performed the work in Copenhagen with the Swedish Radio Orchestra.
personal data
SURNAME Homzy, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo (Ohio)