Will Holshouser Ron Horton David Phillips
Will Holshouser
Will Holshouser started out playing piano as a kid and discovered the accordion by surprise after a friend gave him an old one for a present. Since then he has been searching for his own sound as an accordionist, composer, and improviser, drawing on jazz, folk and experimental music. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and plays accordion in many different situations, most recently with Han Bennink and Michael Moore, New York City Ballet, and collaborating with the Portuguese pianist Bernardo Sassetti. He has also played with Antony and the Johnsons, David Krakauer & Klezmer Madness, Matt Munisteri & Brock Mumford, Regina Carter, Phillip Johnston, Dave Douglas, Maria Schneider, Roberto Rodriguez, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Raymond Scott Orchestrette, and others.
Will has two CDs out on the Portuguese label Clean Feed featuring his trio: Reed Song and Singing to a Bee. Will has also composed music for solo accordion and for short films, and has arranged music for various groups. He studied with Anthony Braxton and Bill Barron at Wesleyan University, where he received a grant to research Cajun and Creole music in Louisiana. After moving to New York in the early 1990s, he studied accordion with Dr. William Schimmel.
Ron Horton
Ron Horton (trumpet) has three CDs out under his own name, Everything in a Dream, Subtextures (both on Fresh Sound New Talent) and Genius Envy (Omnitone). He is a long-standing member of New York's Jazz Composers Collective and has worked with Andrew Hill, Jane Ira Bloom, Lee Konitz, Phillip Johnston, Frank Kimbrough, Ben Allison, Matt Wilson, Ted Nash, Michael Blake, the Herbie Nichols Project, and more.
http://www.ronhorton.net
David Phillips
David Phillips (bass) has released three cds as a leader, most recently Freedance Live, and toured in North America and Europe with his group Freedance. He began learning bass from his father, Barre Phillips, then studied with Homer Mensch at Mannes College of Music and earned a graduate degree from Juilliard under Eugene Levinson. While active as a session player in New York, he is currently a member of the Syrian group Hewar, Bruce Arnold’s Spooky Actions and performs regularly with Indian singer, Kiran Ahluwalia.
http://www.davephilips.info
