David Horowitz (musician)

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David Joel Horowitz (born July 29, 1942 in Brooklyn ; † April 6, 2020 in New York City ) was an American musician ( piano , keyboard , composition , arrangement ) who was active in both jazz and film music .

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Musically, Horowitz was a precocious child who began to play the piano by ear at the age of three. He initially received no piano lessons, but then studied piano, music theory and composition in New York with Lennie Tristano (1960–63), Hall Overton (1963–65) and Mischa Portnoff . In college he ran the Dave Horowitz Jazz Quintet and soon began working mainly as arranger and pianist in sessions and performances. He toured Europe and the USA with folk singer Tom Paxton and also composed with Paxton.

From 1964 to 1977 Horowitz was active in the jazz scene as a synthesizer and keyboard player. Between 1964 and 1968 he led a jazz combo with saxophonist Richard Grando, which included Randy Brecker , Enrico Rava and Barre Phillips . From 1968 he worked as a studio musician in New York . He was the first to be named "Synthesizer Player of the Year" by Down Beat Magazine. From 1970 he was a member of the Gil Evans Orchestra, with whom he performed in Carnegie Hall , the Jazz at Lincoln Center Festival and in jazz clubs. In 1971 he toured France with Alan Silva & His Celestrial Communication Orchestra. From 1972 to 1974 he was also a member of Tony Williams Lifetime around drummer Tony Williams ( The Old Bum's Rush , Polydor , 1972).

Between 1972 and 1975 he worked with Joe Henderson ( Black Is the Color ), Randy Weston ( Blue Moses ), Gil Evans ( Svengali , There Comes a Time ) and Enrico Rava ( Pupa o Crisalide ) in the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord Participated in 21 recording sessions between 1971 and 1975. From 1973 to 1974 Horowitz was Composer in Residence on the Arena Stage in Washington, DC. He arranged and produced albums for Peter Allen , Tom Paxton, Carol Hall , Gerri Granger and Webster Lewis .

In 1974 Horowitz accepted a studio session for an advertising campaign, which led to further involvement in advertising. In 1979 he founded his own company, David Horowitz Music Associates, Inc. , which specialized in music for commercials and films. Although he never stopped composing for television and film, his work mainly focused on orchestral and jazz background music. For over 32 years Horowitz composed thousands of pieces of music and supervised sessions and film recordings for clients and agencies in New York. His numerous awards include seven Clio Awards for Best Original Music, the 1980 Grand Prix at the International Film & Television Awards, and numerous Addy and Andy awards. David's compositions helped win the first Emmy Award ever given to a commercial. His work is in the permanent collection of MoMA. David worked with a wide variety of celebrities including BB King , Frank Sinatra Jr. , Lou Rawls, and Gladys Knight .

In the late 1970s, Horowitz participated in many art projects, including a number of film scores for the avant-garde collaboration between Ian Hugo and Anaïs Nin, and a film with Japanese pantomime artist Yass Hakoshima for WNET and others for WBGH Boston. Horowitz composed the original music for both of them and worked on putting together a ballet score with music by the Beach Boys for Twyla Tharpe 's Deuce Coupe , which was commissioned by the Joffrey Ballet in New York. At this time he composed and orchestrated the music for the film “Klute” and the original score for “ Hu-Man ” with Jeanne Moreau and Terence Stamp for the composer Michael Small .

In 1997 Horowitz began a series of annual concerts in Rimini , with a large ensemble and singers from New York that included artists such as Lou Marini , Wayne Pedzwater , Jack Cavari , Ed Walsh , Buddy Williams , Tony Kadleck , David Mann and Vaneese Thomas . In Italy he worked with the singer-songwriter Claudio Chieffo , with whom he arranged and produced the album "Come La Rosa". After closing his company in 2011, he wrote compositions for his grandchildren and the score for the indie feature film " Patient 001 " (2018). Most recently, he took on a commission to compose and arrange a psalm by King David for the Ghostlight Choir under the direction of Evelyn Toester DeGraf. He died in early April 2020 at the age of 77 during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City of complications from a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Filmography

  • 2003: Bun-Bun (short film)
  • 2004: Satan's Little Helper
  • 2018: patient 001

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Lexical entry (Grove)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h obituary. Local 802, April 29, 2020, accessed April 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 29, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Horowitz, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horowitz, David Joel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano, keyboard) and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2020
Place of death New York City