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Henry KuntzLink to home page : Henry Kuntz Biography: Henry Kuntz has been intimately involved in free jazz and free improvisation for more than 20 years. From 1973 to 1979, he was editor and publisher of the internationally-acclaimed newsletter-review BELLS. He first recorded on tenor saxophone in 1977 on Henry Kaiser's Ice Death (Parachute 005). He has played musette and various flutes since 1981, miniature, violins since 1983, gamelans and xylophones since 1988. On Humming Bird Records, he has released 2 LPs, 16 cassettes, and 3 CDs of solo, group, and multi-tracked free improvisations. With Brian Godchaux and John Kuntz, in 1986, he formed the "avant-shamanic trance jazz" group, Opeye, which now also includes Ben and Esten Lindgren. He has traveled extensively (over 20 years) to Mexico, Central and South America, Asia, and Indonesia recording, studying, and drawing upon aspects of music, ritual, dance, and performance -- from which 5 ethnographic cassettes have also been produced.CDs on which Henry Kuntz appears:
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