Results for "Ab Baars"

Ada Rave / Aaron Lumley / Onno Govaert: Bioluminus

by Mark Corroto
March 19, 2023

We can no longer refer to the music and creative Amsterdam scene with the title coined by author Kevin Whitehead as the New Dutch Swing. His 1998 book of the same name described the origins of the free jazz movement in The Netherlands and its now legendary masters such as Misha Mengelberg, Willem Breuker, Han Bennink, ...

thrīe thrēo drī

By Ab Baars

Label: Jazzwerkstatt
Released: 2021
Track listing: Verticality; High Rider; Boulder Clay Movement No. 1; The Duck Stays Between The Teeth; Alternative Experimental Assembly X; A Day Like Any Other; All Other Forms Of Matter And Energy; Aerolith.

Ab Baars, Meinard Kneer, Bill Elgart: thrīe thrēo drī

by Mark Corroto
December 3, 2021

The trio of Ab Baars, Meinard Kneer, and Bill Elgart obliges listeners to reflect on how they listen to freely improvised music, not in a concert setting where the listeners' attention is in effect captured, but the act of listening to a performance from recorded format. A fellow critic eschews records, saying that the experience is ...

Out for Stars

By Kaja Draksler

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Danas, Jucer, Sutra (on the poem "A Passing Glimpse"); Acquainted with the Night; The Last Mowing; Never Again Will Bird's Song Be the Same; The Silken Tent; Away!; The Freedom of the Moon.

Moods For Roswell

By Ab Baars

Label: Wig
Released: 2020
Track listing: Sootywing / Black Butterfly; Catskill Cyclist / Sonnet For Caesar; Two Ways / Wig Wise; Cool And Gentle / Mr. Gentle Mr. Cool; Hopkins Rudd / Jack The Bear; Little March / Klop; Sweet Stumblings / Sweet Mama; Handwoven / Creole Blues; Take Turns / Tonk; Moods For Roswell / In A Sentimental Mood.

Duo Baars-Buis: Moods For Roswell

by Mark Corroto
July 21, 2020

It is difficult to think of a better way of honoring the memory of trombonist Roswell Rudd than through the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Rudd (1935-2017), the eternal avant-gardist, maintained a firm foundation in the jazz tradition. Even when he was working in the New York Art Quartet or collaborating with Archie Shepp ...

Kaja Draksler Octet: Out for Stars

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 18, 2020

Nel precedente Gledalec le parole erano quelle di Pablo Neruda, Gregor Strnisa e Adriana Minou in questo Out for Stars poeta unico di riferimento è l'americano Robert Frost. Ad animare i testi, colorarli di immagini, evocare paesaggi della natura (che sia quella del New England di Frost o della natia Slovenia poco importa) e dell'anima ci ...

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Tomeka Reid Quartet, Piero Bittolo Bon & Ratchet Orchestra

by Maurice Hogue
October 30, 2019

I guess this episode could be termed a “friendly" one, as it just so happens a number of my musical friends have new releases out for sampling, so I dove right in. Toronto drummer Nick Fraser has an excellent album out with Tony Malaby and Kris Davis and they open the show. Violist Ig Henneman from ...

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 ...