Tristan Honsinger

Tristan Honsinger (born 23 October 1949 in Burlington, Vermont) is an American free jazz cellist.

Honsinger studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and went in 1969 to Montreal. In 1974 he moved to Amsterdam, where he has since been involved in the ICP Orchestra drummer Han Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg. He also worked with Derek Bailey, Steve Lacy, Alexander Schlippenbach, Lol Coxhill, Louis Moholo and singer Mola Sylla. He was next to Harri Sjöström and Paul Lovens member of Cecil Taylor Ensemble.

Since 1978 he has lived for several years in Florence, where he (you Improvisazione Nuovo Consonanza Gruppo ) and worked with Giancarlo Gianluigi Trovesi Schiaffini.

To his band This, That and the Other were for example Tiziana Simona, Sean Bergin, Toshinori Kondo, Jean -Jacques Avenel and Michael Vatcher. In the early 1990s he experimented with a reinforced through Drums String Quartet and worked with the Dutch band The Ex In the 2000s, he performed with Tobias Delius.

Discography (selection)

  • Live Performances, 1976
  • Earmeals, 1978
  • Double Indemnity with Steve Beresford, 1979
  • Imitation of life 1981
  • Map of Moods [live ] with Ernst Glerum, Aleksander Kolkowski, Stephano Lunardi, Louis Moholo, 1996
  • Ig Henneman Tentet Indigo with Ab Baars, Han Buhr, Theo Jörgensmann, Wilbert de Joode 1998, inter alia,
  • A Camel's Kiss, a solo album, 1999
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