Robin Holcomb

Pianist, composer, singer and songwriter Robin Holcomb has performed extensively in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia as a solo artist and the leader of various ensembles. Living in the Lower East Side of New York in the 1980s, she was a founder of Studio Henry, a venue for maverick composers, and the New York Composers Orchestra. Living in Seattle since 1989, she continues to compose and record songs and music for solo piano, chamber ensembles, dance, theatre and film. Her most recent recording is John Brown��s Body (Tzadik), a collection of solo piano compositions, a string quartet and duets and trios with Eyvind Kang, Steve Moore and Dave Carter

Reno

By Robin Holcomb

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sorrow; Coin; Bye Bye; Skipping; Copper Bottom; Camptown; I'm Gonna Lose Again; Interlude; The Sweetest Thing; Larks, They Crazy; Divine Stall; Reno; Silence in the Square; The Point of It All; Top Hat; Waltz

Robin Holcomb & Peggy Lee: Behind The Delicate Sound Of 'Reno'

by Lawrence Peryer
September 13, 2025

Today, the Spotlight shines on composer and pianist Robin Holcomb and cellist Peggy Lee.These two musicians have been creating music together for the better part of two decades. Their new album, Reno (Songlines), captures something rare: the kind of musical conversation that happens when two artists know each other's musical language inside and out. ...

Robin Holcomb And Peggy Lee Join Forces On 'Reno,' Out September 12, 2025

September 12, 2025

Robin Holcomb and Peggy Lee have been making music together for two decades, including The Point of It All (Songlines, 2010), a collaboration between Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, and Vancouver jazz quartet Talking Pictures. Now Robin and Peggy have made a duo recording, featuring eight enigmatic Holcomb songs and eight of her instrumental pieces. The intimacy and ...

Robin Holcomb: One Way or Another - Volume 2

by Vic Albani
February 10, 2025

"Ascoltate attentamente. Abbiamo bisogno di cose come questa." (Bill Frisell) In occasione della recensione di One Way or Another -Volume 1 avevo scritto: “in poco pi�� di trentotto minuti la signora Robin Holcomb distribuisce ancora una volta sapienza e bellezza." Devo necessariamente ripetermi per questo secondo volume che esce a due ...

Robin Holcomb, Damon Locks, Don Paul, Amanda Gardier and More

by Hobart Taylor
January 8, 2025

New music from Robin Holcomb, Damon Locks, the Jessica Jones Quartet and Posi-Tone Records' super group Blue Moods.Playlist Dashawn Hickman “ Don't Let The Devil Ride" from Drums, Roots & Steel (Little Village Foundation) 0:00 Amanda Gardier “ Electroshock Therapy" from Auteur (Postal) 6:19 Afro Peruvian New Trends Orchestra Corina Bartra “Tun Tun Tun-La ...

I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2025

Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “�� tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2024

Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...

One Way or Another - Volume 2

By Robin Holcomb

Label: Westerlies
Released: 2024
Track listing: One Way or Another; Waltz; Hard Times Come Again No More; I've Got That Feeling; Once; A Lazy Farmer Boy; I'm Gonna Lose Again; Copper Bottom; Rockabye; 10. Shining; Electrical Storm; Old Dog Tray; The Point of It All

Ella Zirina, Jimmy Villotti, Robin Holcomb, Giancarlo Tossani & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 10, 2024

Enjoy a set focusing on guitar players, Italian cult musicians at the intersection of jazz and many other genres, Northern European rising stars and poets trapped in the bodies of musicians. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 AHL6 “Party" What happened to Eternity? ...