Home » Jazz Articles » In Pictures » DOEK Festival Amsterdam 2015: Doek Meets Tri-Centric

4

DOEK Festival Amsterdam 2015: Doek Meets Tri-Centric

By

View read count
Doek is a collective of stellar musicians based in the Amsterdam area dedicated to furthering the creative possibilities in improvised music. In June 2015, they broadened their horizons by inviting Anthony Braxton and his cadre of nine hand-picked younger USA talents to play with ten of their musicians for a week-long adventure in spontaneity using mixed and matched groupings. This transatlantic exchange resulted in an astonishing mix of instantly composed, pre-composed, and conduction music resounding from over 30 mini or full scale sets of duets, trios, quartets, sextets, nonets, tentets, plus large orchestras encompassing all 20 of the participants. Initial evening sessions and open afternoon rehearsals were conducted at the Zaal 100 performance space, while the larger ensembles were offered at the famous Bimhuis, Amsterdam's (and one of the world's) premier venues. Braxton also gave a talk one afternoon at the Amsterdam library on his concepts of the creative process and his involvement in the avant-garde movement. This musical cross pollination was a huge success and culminated with a jazz bike tour where the audience rode from venue to venue to hear various co-mingled configurations, followed by a celebration party.
View Slideshow


View more photos


Tags

Comments


PREVIOUS / NEXT




Support All About Jazz

Get the Jazz Near You newsletter All About Jazz has been a pillar of jazz since 1995, championing it as an art form and, more importantly, supporting the musicians who make it. Our enduring commitment has made "AAJ" one of the most culturally important websites of its kind, read by hundreds of thousands of fans, musicians and industry figures every month.

Go Ad Free!

To maintain our platform while developing new means to foster jazz discovery and connectivity, we need your help. You can become a sustaining member for as little as $20 and in return, we'll immediately hide those pesky ads plus provide access to future articles for a full year. This winning combination vastly improves your AAJ experience and allow us to vigorously build on the pioneering work we first started in 1995. So enjoy an ad-free AAJ experience and help us remain a positive beacon for jazz by making a donation today.

Near

More

Jazz article: Patricia Barber Trio at Ladies' Jazz Festival
Jazz article: Lars Danielsson Liberetto at The Royal Baths Park
Jazz article: SFJAZZ Spring Concerts
Jazz article: Vivian Buczek at Ladies' Jazz Festival

Popular

Read Take Five with Pianist Irving Flores
Read Jazz em Agosto 2025
Read Bob Schlesinger at Dazzle
Read SFJAZZ Spring Concerts
Read Sunday Best: A Netflix Documentary
Read Vivian Buczek at Ladies' Jazz Festival

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you.

Install All About Jazz

iOS Instructions:

To install this app, follow these steps:

All About Jazz would like to send you notifications

Notifications include timely alerts to content of interest, such as articles, reviews, new features, and more. These can be configured in Settings.