Trajecten -- Orkest de Volharding Plays New Music by Louis Andriessen, Klas Torstensson, Misha Mengelberg and Others
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Han Bennink was feeling frisky. Onstage with pianist Misha Mengelberg and saxophonist Kenny Millions at the Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center in 2007, the legendary Dutch jazz drummer displayed the mischievous wit and childlike exuberance for which he's long been revered. Variously, he bounced a drumstick and caught it in mid-air, swung his foot atop his snare, percussively beat his ruddy cheeks...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Han Bennink Trio Parken Ilk Music 2009 One of the most iconic players from the European free-music scene, Han Bennink's 50 plus year career has seen the Dutch master drummer traverse through a multitude of musical settings. Bennink's journey has embraced revolutionary, avant-jazz recordings such as saxophonist {{Peter Brotzmann = 5331}}'s ferocious Machine Gun (FMP, 1968) and accompanying reed player...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
Bobby Broom Plays for Monk Origin Records 2009 Jimmy Halperin/Dominic Duval Monk Dreams No Business 2009 There's something almost contradictory about Monk compositions: they're insistently individualistic, built on odd chord changes with often minimalist melodies. But as idiosyncratic as they are, they often succeed in bringing out what's best in the musicians playing them, as if those tunes are open...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
Review: Instant Composers Pool Orchestra may be an unwieldy name but it's simpler than listing the ingredients that go into a performance by this extraordinary ensemble from Amsterdam.
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
INSTANT COMPOSERS POOL ORCHESTRA **** QUEEN'S HALL, EDINBURGH
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/17/2009
Noah Howard's 1969 album The Black Ark has, in an unintended way, lived up to its name in recent years. It has become, to free jazz obsessives, a sort of Ark of the Covenant, a fabled and much sought after grail and jazz message boards lit up when it was announced that the British label Bo'Weavil would be putting the album out on CD...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Ab Baars is a major figure in the Dutch jazz scene, having played with Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink in their Instant Composers Pool for more than 25 years. Ken Vandermark has been the driving organizational force behind the fertile jazz community of Chicago for the better part of the last two decades, leading any number of bands and bringing together improvisers in the City of Wind with like-minded...
Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Jazz improvisation is about the moment, it is "instant composition," a phrase coined by guitarist Jim Hall as recounted in the history of the band of the Instant Composition Pool Orchestra. As the history continues: A quiet manifesto, those two...
Music and Vision (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
The director of STEIM in Amsterdam died in June 2008, aged 58
Smuggled Sounds (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Two-time Grammy-nominated trumpeter Dave Douglas is arguably the most original trumpeter/composer of his generation. From his New York base, where he has lived since the mid 1980s, he has earned lavish national and international critical acclaim, including trumpeter, composer, and jazz "Artist of the Year" by such organizations as the New York Jazz Awards, Down Beat, Jazz Times, Jazziz, and...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
ICP Orchestra: Headed by two Dutch masters, pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink, the Amsterdam-based ICP Orchestra (Instant Composers Pool) proves that free jazz can be fun. The animated 10-piece ensemble balances Dada-inspired mischief with patches of loose swing. Sept. 1.
2x3x7 (Free subscription) | 01/19/2008
There's nothing quite like the sound of a trumpet player in full flow, is there? Just got back from a performance of the Misha Mengelberg Quartet , featuring an electrifying performance by trumpet player Dave Douglas . Also notable were Mengelberg's lovely melodies and the inimitable hi-jinx of Han Bennink, who is to percussion what Chico Marx is to the piano. But for me the highlight of the show was...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/22/2007
When Angelo Verploegen (trumpet) was invited to organize a concert to be performed at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, he first thought of Misha Mengelberg (piano). Verploegen had long wanted to play with Mengelberg, whom he appropriately calls the godfather of European improvised music. He realized that this would be a stale combination though, as the duo thing with Mingelberg had been done often enough....
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/12/2007
Acclaimed Dutch Saxophonist's 3rd Album As A Leader, To Be Distributed By Koch, Features Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington A Journey That Matters, the third album as a leader by the award- winning Dutch saxophonist and composer Tineke (pronounced TEE-na-ka) Postma and the first recording on the new label Foreign Media Jazz, is set for release in the U.S. on September 10, 2007. The CD -- which has already...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/19/2007
Festivals Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Friday through July 1, Vancouver (888-438-5200, www.coastaljazz.ca). If this isn't the...
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