Missoula Collective Music Ensemble

The Missoula Collective Music Ensemble brings together an exciting ensemble of Missoula-based improvisers with guest artist Wayne Horvitz leading the band.
The first set is a quartet featuring Naomi Moon Siegel, Jessica Catron, Jeremy Drake, and Wayne Horvitz.
The second set features the entire ensemble, under conduction/direction by Horvitz. These collective improvisations and compositions feature “conduction”, a jazz technique utilized to organize, expand and inspire improvisation in a large group setting. “Conduction” was created but the late Lawrence “Butch” Morris, and is now used throughout the world. Mr. Horvitz and Mr. Morris were friends and colleagues, and Horvitz learned the technique as a member of many of Butch’s early groups. Wayne Horvitz continues to use conduction frequently in his ensembles The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble and Electric Circus, and as a guest artist throughout Europe and North America.