Glenn Horiuchi

Jazz Pianist, Composer

1955 – 2000

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Who was Glenn Horiuchi?

Glenn Horiuchi was an American jazz pianist, composer, and shamisen player. He was a central figure in the development of the Asian American jazz 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, Wadada Leo Smith, George Lewis, John Tchicai, Art Davis, Francis Wong, Miya Masaoka, Tatsu Aoki, William Roper, Mark Izu, 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 in Los Angeles, California.

Horiuchi was diagnosed with colon cancer in August 1999, and was consecrated a Zen master before he died on June 3, 2000.

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Born
Feb 27, 1955
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
Jun 3, 2000

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on July 23, 2013

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