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Joris Roelofs

Joris Roelofs (1984) is a (bass) clarinetist, saxophonist and composer from Amsterdam. He was a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra from 2005 – 2010. Joris finished his masters at the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2007, and lived in New York City between 2008-2011. In 2001 he won the Pim Jacobs Prize, and in 2003 he was the first non-American to receive the Stan Getz/Clifford Brown Fellowship Award in the US, organized by the IAJE. In 2004 Joris received the first prize of the prestigious Deloitte Jazz Award in the Netherlands. In 2008 he was selected for the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition

Swart Waling Koolhaas

By Swart Waling Koolhaas

Label: Urban Waves
Released: 2023
Track listing: Six Shooter; Amalgam; In Tongues; Chewy; Intrinsicality; Repose.

With Best Intentions

By Jochen Rueckert

Label: Colonel Beats
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Dress; Rainbow Road; Catholic Mahogany; Unmitigated; Muetze Glatze; With Best Intentions; Pherothstorium; Double Sensotron; Mark of the Beast.

In Tongues

October 17, 2023

Album: Swart Waling Koolhaas
By Swart Waling Koolhaas
Label: Urban Waves
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:38

The Dress

May 29, 2023

Album: With Best Intentions
By Jochen Rueckert
Label: Colonel Beats
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:34

Jochen Rueckert: With Best Intentions

by Dan Bilawsky
May 25, 2023

This stellar sixth album from Jochen Rueckert extends on some musical friendships while offering a fresh format and new palette. Having previously delivered his notable Introduction (Lipstick-Jazzline, 1998) some 25 years ago, greased the grooves on an appealing organ trio session with guests, and drawn notice with guitar-driven gusto on several quartet dates, this German-born, New ...

12 Points Festival 2019

by Henning Bolte
October 12, 2019

Bimhuis 12 Points Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands September 25-28, 2019 Jazz, as a diverse and heterogeneous field by nature, is represented at each 12 Points edition by young musicians and groups (age 35) with a strong artistic profile and solid and attractive performance capabilities. The festival represents in a nutshell what the ...

Joris Roelofs Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam

by BIMHUIS
July 8, 2019

Joris Roelofs excels at alto saxophone as well as bass clarinet. He has lived in New York, where he formed a trio with respected American musicians. Alongside jazz he takes his inspiration from classical music and contemporary improvised music. On this compelling live performance he plays a solo bass clarinet set. Playlist Introduction Bimhuis ...

Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw: Crossroads

by Jack Bowers
February 24, 2019

The Netherlands's Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, which started life in 1996 as the New Concert Big Band, a successor to such leading lights as Count Basie and Woody Herman, has evolved since then into an up-to-date ensemble that more closely resembles New York's Vanguard Jazz Orchestra or composer Bill Holman's legendary West Coast rehearsal band. ...

Steph Richards, Kuba Plużek and More

by Maurice Hogue
February 13, 2019

The much-acclaimed Australian saxophonist Sandy Evans' passion for combining jazz improvisation and Indian music continues unabated on her latest recording Bridge of Dreams. She brought together some top musicians from India, including the incredible vocalist Shubha Mudgal, Sandy's frequent accompanist tabla player Bobby Singh and the Sirens Big Band from Sydney for the project. Recently, the ...