Bill Horist

Guitarist Bill Horist has played with some of the avant-garde community's most luminous artists, bringing his emotionally potent experimentalism to an instrument that is often accused of lacking the expressiveness of horns or vocals. A native of southwest Michigan, Horist had already played with such star instrumentalists as Medeski, Martin & Wood, Rashied Ali, and Freddie Hubbard before moving to Seattle in 1994. Once in Seattle, Horist gained notoriety as an extremely versatile player, initially recording and touring with jangling rockers Kung Pao Dickens and the improvised ...