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Maarten Hogenhuis Trio Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
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Maarten Hogenhuis has been gaining international visibility with his exciting power jazz group BRUUT! and his trio has become a mainstay in Dutch jazz. The previous album Mimicry received rave reviews and this spring sees the release of its follow-up Rise & Fall. Hogenhuis wrote the music on the album especially for his current band members: drummer Mark Schilders and British bassist Phil Donkin. Personnel: Maarten Hogenhuis: sax; Phil Donkin: bass; Mark Schilders: drums Recording: Marc ...
read moreJoris Roelofs Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
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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 Radio 0:00 Joris Roelofs Live Concert @ BIMHUIS 0:40 ...
read moreGet the Blessing Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
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Get the Blessing can be placed among a number of bands innovating British jazz with contemporary rock, dance and hip-hop influences, like Portico Quartet, BadBadNotGood and GoGo Penguin. The infectious beats of this Bristol-based foursome come from bassist Jim Barr and drummer Clive Deamer, rhythm section of the legendary trip-hop act Portishead. Deamer is also live drummer for Radiohead. The mutant, spacey jazz tones come from Pete Judge (trumpet, electronics) and Jake McMurchie (sax, electronics). Their most recent ...
read moreKUHN FU Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
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In the second of two instalments dedicated to great international talents living in The Netherlands, this week we focus on Kuhn Fu, led by guitarist Christian Kühn. In this live performance they their new album Chain the Snake in March 2019, with bass clarinetist Ziv Taubenfeld adding a deeper dimension to the music. Their richly varied music is something that they themselves describe as 'post-romantic jazz disorder, which can sound 'as vicious as lava.' Personnel: Christian ...
read more3times7 Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
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In the first of two instalments dedicated to young international talents living in The Netherlands, this week we focus on 3Times7, a band that can easily switch between punk, funk, classical music and psychedelic rock. Enjoy their energy-packed live performance at BimHUIS. Personnel: Jorrit Westerhof guitar, Donatas Bielunski bass, Aleksander Škoric drums Recording: Philip ten Brink Playlist Introduction Bimhuis Radio 0:00 3times7 Live Concert @ BIMHUIS 0:35 ...
read moreTijn Wybenga Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
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First presentation of the 14-piece AM.OK (Amsterdams Modern Orkest) led by Tijn Wybenga, maker at BIM Productions. Tijn Wybenga (1993) made the transition from jazz pianist and arranger to composer, conductor and artistic director. After graduating he shook off his good side and now he writes intense musical, touching notes, rich and ripe, highly personal and specific. His craftsmanship is indisputable, as he proved with his multidisciplinary performance Prikkel at Oerol 2018. Tijn Wybenga conductor, Alistair Payne trumpet, ...
read moreNature Work Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
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This spring sees the release of the debut album by this new supergroup and the first clips on YouTube are convincing in every way: imaginative, fluid themes by the founders of the group, alto saxophonist Greg Ward and bass clarinetist Jason Stein, and boneshaking grooves by a first-class rhythm section, double bassist Eric Revis and drummer Jim Black. Greg Ward is respected as a saxophonist and composer working with many jazz bands in New York and jny: Chicago, ...
read moreThe Necks Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
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Endlessly fascinating, hypnotic improvisations on piano, double bass and percussion by The Necks, the Australian trio that achieved a world wide cult status.The Australian trio The Necks plays slowly unfolding, hypnotic improvisations that touch on all kinds of music, from Western minimalism to African trance and from to ambient to contemporary electronic music. Every other set of The Necks is another slowly unfolding improvisation based on the interaction between piano, bass and percussion.In the late 1980s ...
read moreMarquis Hill Blacktet Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
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Marquis Hill, one of the most promising American jazz players, combines jazz with contemporary beats. Former band member of Marcus Miller. “A dauntingly skilled trumpeter." —New York TimesTrumpeter Marquis Hill leaves a great impression with the way he connects jazz to spoken word, hip-hop and contemporary beats and breaks. In his Blacktet he plays with musicians from his native jny: Chicago. These musicians can improvise on dazzling grooves, but they also translate standards and more obscure gems from ...
read moreIrreversible Entanglements Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
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The message is the undeniable essence of the music for this five-piece Brooklyn-based band featuring poet and spoken word artist Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother. Irreversible Entanglements came together in Brooklyn, New York, to perform at a Musicians Against Police Brutality event organized after the death of Akai Gurley, which was caused by police brutality. Since then the message is the undeniable essence of the music for Irreversible Entanglements. 'Irreversible Entanglements' self-titled debut wakes the frozen ...
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