Ari Hoenig
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Ari Hoenig at Moers Festival, June 2006, Germany
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| Background information | |
| Born |
November 13, 1973 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instruments | Drums |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | Smalls, Dreyfus, Chesky, Motéma, Lyte |
| Associated acts | One O'Clock Lab Band, Jazz Mandolin Project |
| Website | www |
Ari Hoenig (born November 13, 1973) is an American jazz drummer, composer, and educator.
Hoenig was born to a vocalist father and violinist mother, exposed to classical and other music at an early age. He played both piano and violin, then rock and metal drums as a teen before settling into jazz. He attended Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts in summer 1990. He attended the University of North Texas College of Music in 1992 for three years and was a member of the highly regarded One O'Clock Lab Band in Philadelphia before relocating to New York where he in 1995 transferred to the William Paterson College in New Jersey.
After the move to New York, he began playing with fellow Philadelphia native Shirley Scott. In 2005 Hoenig appeared with his group at the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival. Since then other artists Hoenig has recorded and or played with include Mike Stern, Kenny Werner, Richard Bona, Dave Liebman, Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Tigran Hamasyan, Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Fred Hersch, Gilad Hekselman, Jean-Michel Pilc, Jonathan Kreisberg, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Wayne Krantz, Pat Martino, Bojan Z, and the Jazz Mandolin Project. He has also shared the stage with such artists as Herbie Hancock, Ivan Linz, Wynton Marsalis, Toots Thielemans, Dave Holland, Joe Lovano, Pat Metheney and Gerry Mulligan.
In 2000 Ari self-produced his first solo drum album, Time Travels (2000) and his second The Life Of A Day 2002, on which he explores the melodic possibilities of the drum set. The Ari Hoenig Quartet was formed at the end of 2002 and featured Jacques Schwarz-Bart on tenor sax, Jean-Michel Pilc on piano, and Matt Penman on bass. They released two records on the Smalls Records label: The Painter (2004) and the DVD Kinetic Hues (2005). In 2006 Ari signed a multi record deal with Dreyfus Records and released his first record for them called Inversations (2006) which features the trio of Jean Michel Pilc and Johannes Weidenmueller. Bert's Playground (2008), Ari's second record for Dreyfus, features Ari's Punk Bop Band joined by Chris Potter. After Ari chose his Punk Bop Band to make the live record Punk Bop Live at Smalls that was released on the Smalls Live label in 2010 and features Will Vinson on alto, Jonathan Kreisberg on guitar and fellow Jazz Mandolin Project alumni, Danton Boller on bass and Tigran Hamasyan as a special guest. A year later (2011) Ari's Quartet with Tigran Hamasyan, Gilad Hekselman, Orlando le Fleming and Chris Tordini released Lines of Oppression on the Naïve label. In 2016, Ari Released 'The Pauper and the Magician' on AH-HA Records with his quintet with Shai Maestro on piano, Gilad Hekselman on guitar, Tivon Pennicott on Sax and Orlando Le Fleming on bass.
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