Bio
HORACE ALEXANDER YOUNG
Musician
Native Texan and current Washington state resident, HORACE ALEXANDER YOUNG
is one of a select group of “triple threat” recording and
touring artists who is equally gifted as an multi-instrumentalist (woodwinds,
keyboards and percussion), vocal musician and composer. His varied experiences
in these three disciplines have led to appearances on sixty-four (64)
recordings and several international tours and performances with Sam “Lightnin”
Hopkins, B.B. King, Bill Withers, McCoy Tyner Big Band, The Manhattans,
Regina Belle, Johnny Kemp, Abdullah Ibrahim (a.k.a. Dollar Brand), Bubbha
Thomas, Gerald Alston, Toots Thielemans, John Blake, Arnett Cobb, Jonathan
Butler, Youssou N’ Dour, Onaje Allan Gumbs, McCoy Tyner, Nancy Wilson,
Kenny Barron, George Coleman, Dwight Sills, Milt Hinton, Dave Liebman,
Norman Brown, Don Menza, Marvin Stamm, Betty Carter, Mark Ledford, Kim
Waters and countless others. Having performed in nineteen (19) countries
across five (5) continents his saxophone, flute and vocal skills have
thrilled audiences at major Jazz Festivals in Montreaux, Hamburg, Leipzig,
London, Paris, The Hague, British Columbia, Berlin, New York, New Orleans,
Tokyo, Houston, Seattle, Gent, Laverkusen and Glasgow. While operating
primarily as a soloist, musical director and studio musician, his most
notable achievements occurred in 1993 when he conducted the National Symphony
of South Africa (NSO) in a nationally televised concert honoring South
African composer-pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and became one of the first
people of native African descent to conduct any orchestra in that country
and the first Black American to do so.
Mr. Young is in constant demand as an adjudicator and guest performer
for numerous jazz festivals, colleges and universities and various schools
throughout the USA, Canada and abroad. In addition to maintaining an active
performing and recording schedule, he tours and performs as a sideman
with noted recording artists and as a leader of his own group. Horace’s
current CD release, "Acoustic Contemporary Jazz" (on Pacific
Coast Jazz) is available online and at various retail outlets in the USA.
Mr. Young performs on Altus, DiMedici and Jupiter flutes,
Jupiter X/O saxophones and uses SKB cases, AMT Microphones and Vandoren
reeds, mouthpieces and ligatures exclusively.
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