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Arjen Gorter

Arjen Gorter (2 januari 1948, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) played accordeon at age 8, guitar at 12 and double bass from age 16. He is self-taught, but for a few months of classical bass lessons and some semesters of weekly jazz workshops with Theo Loevendie and Nedly Elstak. He graduated from the Barlaeus Gymnasium and studied political science and sociology at the University of Amsterdam, until becoming a full-time musician in early 1970. In 1966 he participated in the 18-piece orchestra with which Willem Breuker caused upheaval at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival, together with Ileana Melita, Gilius van Bergeyk, Hans Vonk, Jan Wolff, Hans Dulfer and others. From 1967 through 1971 active in various groups led by Gunter Hampel with a.o

Manfred Schoof: European Echoes

by Fran Kursztejn
April 27, 2025

Manfred Schoof's European Echoes is popularly characterized as a diamond in the rough, with emphasis on the rough. Boasting a cast filled with near every mainstay of the erupting European free jazz style, amounting to 16 independent players, most awarded their own solo, duet or section improvisation in the record's second half, audio technology of the ...

Party @ Tivolux

By I Compani

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Sogni 'd Oro; Brand; il Bidone; The Nightservant; Kaka's Nightsong; SMRTLP; Toby Dammitt; Sun Ra; You Must Believe in Spring; Tango delle Capinere; GouGou suite ( part 1 intro anonymous, part 2 Copacabana, part 3 just one of those things); part 4 dance of the hours finale; Mon Oncle; Jour de Fete; De Vlieger; Amara Terra Mia & Gorizia.

Burton Greene: From Bomb To Balm

by Barbara Ina Frenz
December 18, 2020

Chicago-born pianist Narada Burton Greene (b.1937) can be called a veteran of the 1960s jazz avant-garde—the starting point of his universal musical life. In 1962, he moved to New York and founded, together with bassist Alan Silva, the Free Form Improvisational Ensemble, which played improvised music without preconceived compositional elements. In 1965, he became a member ...