Technology Wayne Horvitz
by Jim Macnie
The wise keyboardist is also an inviting composer—the variety of groups he’s led in the past three decades have all arrived with hip charts in front of them. This East Coast residency finds him grooming a throng of improvisers from his Seattle stomping ground, the Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble, and their YouTube calling cards suggest that they’re able to make moments of melody and mania hold hands. Also slated for this stint: a brass quartet, an evening of duets (a Horvitz forte), and the maestro’s octet, Sweeter Than The Day.
May 22-26, 8 p.m., 2013