Results for "Ab Baars"

Ab Baars

Cecil's Dance

By Ab Baars

Label: Wig
Released: 2024
Track listing: For John; The Sky and the Sea; Kikiriki; This Nearly Was Mine; Shuffle for Tristan; Jackdaw; Portret van de Selfkicker; Faintly White; Cecil's Dance; Louange des dames.

Baars Buis Deman: Cecil's Dance

by Mark Corroto
February 11, 2024

Ab Baars has come to be one of the deans of Dutch jazz, which of course is mostly centered around Amsterdam. He can be heard in large settings such as the Instant Composers Pool, in duo with his partner Ig Henneman, or performing with the anarcho-punk band The Ex. Trombonist Joost Buis joined Baar's quartet for ...

Elegiacal

By Perch Hen Brock & Rain

Label: Wig
Released: 2023
Track listing: One Hundred Hall; Old West Blues; Kites; Rain Perch & Brock; Signals and Trills; Dancing Steps; Walking Art; Elegiacal.

Dave Meder's New American Hymnal Plus Other New Releases

by Bob Osborne
August 17, 2023

On this show we featured a selection of new and recent releases from Dave Meder, Michael Blicher with Dan Hemmer & Steve Gadd, Ab Baars plus Ig Henneman with Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey, Leo Genovese with Demian Cabaud and Marcos Cavaleiro, Linda May Han Oh, Susan Alcorn with José Lencastre and Hernâni Faustino, Christian Dillingham, ...

Perch Hen Brock & Rain: Elegiacal

by Mark Corroto
May 9, 2023

The quartet Perch Hen Brock & Rain invites you to linger longer with their sophomore release Elegiacal. Their request is reflected in the music they make which has an imperturbable feel about it. Elegiacal, recorded in 2018, follows Live @ The Jazz Happening Tampere (Relative Pitch Records, 2016) from a quartet tour in 2014. This second ...

Ada Rave / Aaron Lumley / Onno Govaert: Bioluminus

by Mark Corroto
March 19, 2023

We can no longer refer to the music and creative Amsterdam scene with the title coined by author Kevin Whitehead as the New Dutch Swing. His 1998 book of the same name described the origins of the free jazz movement in The Netherlands and its now legendary masters such as Misha Mengelberg, Willem Breuker, Han Bennink, ...

thrīe thrēo drī

Label: Jazzwerkstatt
Released: 2021
Track listing: Verticality; High Rider; Boulder Clay Movement No. 1; The Duck Stays Between The Teeth; Alternative Experimental Assembly X; A Day Like Any Other; All Other Forms Of Matter And Energy; Aerolith.

Ab Baars, Meinard Kneer, Bill Elgart: thrīe thrēo drī

by Mark Corroto
December 3, 2021

The trio of Ab Baars, Meinard Kneer, and Bill Elgart obliges listeners to reflect on how they listen to freely improvised music, not in a concert setting where the listeners' attention is in effect captured, but the act of listening to a performance from recorded format. A fellow critic eschews records, saying that the experience is ...

Out for Stars

By Kaja Draksler

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Danas, Jucer, Sutra (on the poem "A Passing Glimpse"); Acquainted with the Night; The Last Mowing; Never Again Will Bird's Song Be the Same; The Silken Tent; Away!; The Freedom of the Moon.