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Artist Zen of Glenn
Title Zen of Glenn
Label Iridium Records - IRK 2025 01 - https://iridiumrecords.bandcamp.com/
Released On 3/8/2025
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A tribute album featuring music from, and dedicated to, the late, great Asian American jazz musician Glenn Horiuchi.

Glenn Horiuchi was a musician, zen practitioner, mathematician, and community activist who made music to celebrate his Japanese American heritage and to bring attention to important social causes including the redress and reparations movement in support of wrongfully incarcerated Japanese Americans during the Second World War. His music drew from the rich history of the African American experimental avant-garde, having been mentored by or collaborated with bassist M’Chaka Uba, trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith, trombonist and composer George E Lewis, and saxophonist Joseph Jarman–all members of the Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). This album features Francis Wong’s arrangements of Horiuchi’s music. Wong was a long time collaborator of Horiuchi appearing as a regular member of the latter’s ensembles.