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Live Review

Instant Composers Pool at The MAC

Read "Instant Composers Pool at The MAC" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Instant Composers Pool The MAC Tempered jny:Belfast, N. Ireland November 3, 2017 It's a significant year for Instant Composers Pool, for 2017 marks the Dutch jazz collective's fiftieth anniversary. Sadly, the year also saw the passing of Misha Mengelberg, pianist, composer and co-founder of the IPC along with Willem Breuker and Han Bennink. That left Bennink as the sole-surviving charter member, an inevitable sort of evolution with any collective of long-standing. The doors ...

Album Review

ICP Orchestra: Restless in Pieces

Read "Restless in Pieces" reviewed by Vic Albani


Con gli intelligenti insegnamenti di creatività e humor che l'ormai da qualche tempo fuori gioco Misha Mengelberg ha sempre inserito nella “sua" straordinariamente attiva e divertente ICP Orchestra, nonostante l'assenza del leader spirituale di quello che davvero tutti hanno sempre riconosciuto il migliore esempio di “new swing" europeo, Restless in Pieces brilla dei concetti di sempre. Una sorta di homegrown capace, come nessun altro, di elaborare free forms totali accanto alle ben conosciute trascinanti forme proprie delle big band storiche ...

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Album Review

ICP Orchestra: East of the Sun

Read "East of the Sun" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


The Holland-based Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra has amassed 51 albums since its inception in 1967 and due to health-related issues, legendary co-founder, pianist Misha Mengelberg is unable to perform. But guest artist, pianist Guus Janseen duly integrates his artistry into the orchestra's distinct constitution. And of course inimitable drummer Han Bennink helps support and steer the large ensemble through its perpetually moving currents amid its customary unpredictability and topsy-turvy discourses. As surmised, the artists interconnect free jazz improvisation, folk ...

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Live Review

ICP Orchestra Plus Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley at FringeArts

Read "ICP Orchestra Plus Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley at FringeArts" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


ICP Orchestra FringeArts Ars Nova Workshops Philadelphia, PA January 11, 2015 Despite a cold and damp Sunday night in January, a packed house came to hear a stellar group of musicians from the Netherlands for a performance at the FringeArts Center in the Old City section of town. This collective of seasoned and versatile musicians call themselves the ICP or Instant Composers Pool, and they embody guitarist Jim Hall's broad definition of jazz ...

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Album Review

ICP Orchestra: Jubilee Varia

Read "Jubilee Varia" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


ICP Orchestra's recordings echo the dynamics and ingenuity of European progressive-jazz improvisation. The largely Dutch band, featuring co-founders, pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink, instituted the ICP Orchestra in parallel with the ICP record label in the late 1960s. The critically heralded 1999 Hat Art album, Jubilee Variance, enjoys renewed life via this 2010 reissue. The band and respective musicians' legacy is well-documented, spanning several decades. Nonetheless, ICP's creative sparks reside within asynchronous projections of improvisation and ...

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Live Review

Ottawa Jazz Festival Day 7: June 27, 2007

Read "Ottawa Jazz Festival Day 7: June 27, 2007" reviewed by John Kelman


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In 2005, TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Executive Director Catherine O'Grady introduced the Improv Invitational series, intended to bring a diversity of groups whose focus was on collective improvisation to the festival lineup. It's been a successful series and, while some past performances have ...

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Film Review

Instant Composers Pool Orchestra: A Film by Guy Girard

Read "Instant Composers Pool Orchestra: A Film by Guy Girard" reviewed by Ivana Ng


ICP Orchestra A Film by Guy Girard La Huit 2006

For this film, Guy Girard recorded the ICP Orchestra's performance at Noisy-Le-Sac in France in 2003. Much like the nonet's anarchic free improvisational music, the visual document moves from orderly to chaotic without warning. Psychedelic and kaleidoscopic, the film sets out to investigate the metamorphoses of the concert. The film starts with Dutch drummer and co-founder of ICP, Han ...


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