Ari Hoenig

Life and work

Hoenig, the son of a conductor and a violinist and pianist received as a child violin and piano training before he switched to drums at the age of twelve years. Even while he went to high school, he entered Ortlieb's Jazz House, a jazz club in Philadelphia with musicians like Sam Dockery, Robert " Bootsie " Barnes, Mickey Roker and Bobby Durham.

In the early 1990s he studied at the University of North Texas with drummer Ed Soph and played in the Jazz Band One O'clock. In 1995 he moved to William Patterson College in New Jersey and started working with organist Shirley Scott. He became a member of the trio of Jean -Michel Pilc and Kenny Werner of. He also worked with musicians such as Joe Lovano, Gerry Mulligan, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Martino, Joshua Redman, Wayne Krantz, Richard Bona, Chris Potter, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mike Stern and The Jazz Mandolin Project.

In 2002 he founded with Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Jean -Michel Pilc and John Weidenmüller (later Matt Penman ) his own quartet. After the solo albums Time Travels ( 2000) and The Life of a Day (2002) was published in 2004 the first album with his quartet, The Painter, 2011 Lines of Oppression ( Naive ). In 2013 he won with his quartet the BMW Welt Jazz Award.