GLENN HORIUCHI
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream, Hard Bop • United States

American jazz pianist, born 27 February 1955, died 3 June 2000 from discogs Chicago native Glenn Horiuchi seems to have been destined for a life of music, as he grew up singing and hearing Japanese folk songs. His grandfather, Saburo Sugita, who not only was one of the first Japanese-Americans to be heard playing music on the radio (he was known for his Shakuhachi or Japanese flute playing), he also composed a song about life in the US concentration camps during World War II. It was this weaving of music and politics which would color almost all of his compositions.  It seemed that he didn't do much of anything in moderation.At times he was an auto mechanic, a graduate student of mathematics, construction worker, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, piano and Shamisen) and a music teacher. Later in his life, he studied Zen. Near the end of his life, he said that he asked himself read more...