Steve Horenstein

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Stephen "Steve" Horenstein (* around 1950) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( baritone and tenor saxophone , flute , composition) living in Israel .

Live and act

Horenstein worked in the 1970s a. a. as musician and assistant to Bill Dixon ( Considerations ) and with Franz Koglmann ( Opium for Franz , 1977). He recorded his debut album Collages: Jerusalem '85 for Soul Note in 1981/85 . In Israel he played a. a. with Baby Sommer , Joëlle Léandre ( Live in Israel , 2001), Jerry Gaval and Jean Claude Jones . In the field of jazz he was involved in 16 recording sessions between 1976 and 2008. In his compositions, Horenstein combines elements of jazz and improvisation with material from Jewish and Israeli sources. He teaches at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance ; one of his students a. Yoni Kretzmer .

Discographic notes

  • Between the Silences (JICM Recordings, 2013)
  • Raw and the Cooked (Kadima, 2015), with Jean Claude Jones, Louic Kessus

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Felber The Viennese Free Jazz Avantgarde: Revolution in the Back Room. 2005
  2. ↑ Notes at Soul Note
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 5, 2016)
  4. ^ Robert Jay Fleisher, Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture . 1997, p. 227
personal data
SURNAME Horenstein, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horenstein, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1950