Ari leads 3 groups which play his original music: his Quintet, Ari Hoenig Nonet, and Trio. The Nonet performs Ari’s original compositions arranged by Noam Wiesenberg and features various high caliber players in the New York area. The trio is with Gilad Hekselman and Orlando le Fleming and has toured extensively in Europe, Japan and South America.
As an educator, Ari teaches privately and is on faculty at New York University and the New School for Social Research in New York
Ari Hoenig, jazz drummer extraordinaire, picked me up from the airport when I first landed in NYC-and then immediately made ME drive us around. The nerve! In this episode, we do a deep dive on the Happy Birthday song, and discuss the art of building tension, having fun on the job, and how our songs make us who are.
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