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Bo van de Graaf

Shinjuku

By Bo van de Graaf

Label: icdisc
Released: 2023
Track listing: Shinjuku #1 “Olanda In Due”; Shinjuku #2 “Springtime"; Shinjuku #3 “Benny Golson”; Shinjuku #4 (Solo Altosax) “Sax&Bass”; Shinjuku #5 (Group) “Ad Libido”; Shinjuku #6 (Duo) “Olanda In Due Italy”; Shinjuku #7 “André Popp”; Shinjuku #8 “Intense”; Shinjuku #9 “Tender”; Shinjuku #10 “Sax & Drums”; Shinjuku #11 “Ruhig”; Shinjuku #12 “Sopranino & Arabs”; Shinjuku #13 “The Sopranos”.

Karl Ackermann's Best Creative Music Of 2023

by Karl Ackermann
December 26, 2023

2023 was an exceptional year for pushing envelopes. The music took leaps backward and forwards in time, espousing social consciousness while embracing fundamentals laid down by the likes of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. What distinguishes this year from the pre-pandemic era is the palpable feeling that artists vented in the form of fresh enthusiasm that ...

Clara Lai Trio, Sam Weinberg and Interstellar Nao

by Maurice Hogue
June 12, 2023

A healthy dose of edgy new releases in this episode, featuring Spanish pianist Clara Lai and trio, saxophonist Sam Weinberg and trio, Bobo Stenson and several from the European hotbed of avant-garde--Netherlands (saxophonist Frans Vermeerssen, Cocktail Party Attack, saxophonist Bo Van De Graaf, & Mixing Memory and Desire), plus a freewheeling session from Mexico City featuring ...

Bo van de Graaf: Shinjuku

by Karl Ackermann
May 25, 2023

Saxophonist and composer Bo van de Graaf is not well known outside Western Europe despite being one of the most interesting and creative figures in music. His Dutch ensemble, I Compani, has been active for almost forty years. Van De Graaf composes original scores based on classic films of Fellini, Bertolucci, Greta Garbo, and others. He ...

Off the Record: Eccentric Music for Audio Hunters

Label: icdisc
Released: 2021
Track listing: Too Much Wind; Kakafonissimo; Shukri; The Freejazz Karaoke/SMS in Concert; I Don't Have a Record Player; Wanderers Nachtlied & Altsax Impro; Howling at the Campfire.

Jin-Brebl-Concert

By Cycle

Label: iCompany
Released: 2021
Track listing: Love at First Sight; Bocycle; Basgewijs; This Happened; Duet for Two; Vignette; Nefertiti; Just Another 4:33.

Karl Ackermann's Best Creative Music of 2021

by Karl Ackermann
December 14, 2021

2020 was a disaster and 2021 was less than a beacon of hope. COVID-19 is in the rear-view mirror but closer than it appears. The political clown cars are over capacity, still running on fossil fuel and spilling occupants into the drinking water. That said, jazz and creative music flourished in ways that could make us ...

Bo Van de Graaf: Off the Record: Eccentric Music for Audio Hunters

by Karl Ackermann
December 4, 2021

ToonDist is a Netherlands-based consortium of small independent labels distributing the creative and improvised music of their country. Founded in 2002, ToonDist is often the point of departure for unknown labels such as No Can Do Music and Pingo, and emerging ones like TryTone and Evil Rabbit. The closest ToonDist comes to “convention" may be the ...

Cycle: Jin-Brebl-Concert

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 28, 2021

Parafrasando, titolo e copertina, un celeberrimo doppio album del '71 del quartetto Circle di Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, Dave Holland e Barry Altschul, il quintetto protagonista di questo lavoro batte in realtà strade abbastanza autonome, incasellando in sei brani originali (di cui due impro collettive) Vignette di Gary Peacock e, icona evidentemente inevitabile, quel Nefertiti che ...