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Maarten Altena

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Altena studied double bass at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (he graduated in 1968). From 1980 on, he took composition lessons from Robert Heppener. Since 1968, he played in various music ensembles both in classical music and jazz. Besides the Nederlands Ballet Orkest, these were the jazz groups of Marion Brown, Hans Dulfer and Theo Loevendie, later on those of Willem Breuker and Burton Greene. He played in the Orkest de Volharding and the Instant Composers Pool-Tentett of Misha Mengelberg. Since the mid-1970s, he improvised with Derek Bailey, Paul Lovens and in the Vario Project of Günter Christmann, later also with Peter Kowald and in the Northern European Melody and Improvisation Orchestra of Sven-Åke Johansson

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Why Not? Porto Novo! Revisited

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2021
Track listing: La Sorella; Fortunato; Why Not; Homecoming; Similar Limits; Sound Structure; Improvisation; QBIC; Porto Novo.

Article: Multiple Reviews

Michael Moore: Live in Chicago / Felix Quartet

Read "Michael Moore: Live in Chicago / Felix Quartet" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


Si aggiungono due nuovi lavori al sostanzioso catalogo Ramboy, l'etichetta autogestita dal sassofonista e clarinettista Michael Moore, fondata nel 1991, che documenta l'attività ampia e multiforme del musicista. La conoscenza di Moore è forse maggiormente legata alla sua presenza nel Clusone Trio, formazione nata nel 1988 con Ernst Reijseger al violoncello e Han Bennink alla batteria ...

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Article: Album Review

Blue Lines Trio: Blue Lines Trio

Read "Blue Lines Trio" reviewed by Vic Albani


Registrato dal vivo il 5 marzo 2014 al celeberrimo Bimhuis di Amsterdam, vale a dire in uno dei templi dell'avantgarde jazz europeo, l'omonimo CD del Blue Lines Trio contiene una selezione di cinquanta minuti e rotti della ricchezza compositiva e di repertorio di tre importanti esploratori del suono moderno che si chiamano George Hadow, Michiel Scheen ...

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Article: Jazzin' Around Europe

Bimhuis at 40: Older, Better, Business as Usual

Read "Bimhuis at 40: Older, Better, Business as Usual" reviewed by Joan Gannij


The Bimhuis is turning 40 and is still very much in its prime. Beginning October 1, jny: Amsterdam's venerable jazz club will celebrate this milestone with a variety of concerts, activities and special events. The Bimhuis opened in 1974 after a lengthy search for a suitable venue for improvising musicians. Over the next decades it would ...

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Article: Album Review

Sandro Sciarratta: Pietra

Read "Pietra" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Raccogliendo sue composizioni redatte nell'arco di un quindicennio, il contrabbassista agrigentino, classe 1956, mette insieme un lavoro di rara onestà intellettuale e rigore. Anche a rischio di apparire, in mezzo a tanti musicisti nati vecchi, persino anacronistico. In Pietra si respira in effetti un'aria da scena radicale anni Settanta/Ottanta, di cui già un ...

Article: My Playlist

Maarten Altena

Read "Maarten Altena" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


01. Thelonious Monk - The Complete Riverside Recordings (Riverside - 1986). La Bibbia per gli amanti di Monk. Per esempio le classiche session con Pettiford e Kenny Clarke, una delle più belle registrazioni di un trio jazz. Questo cofanetto contiene quasi tutte le composizioni di Monk ed è sostanzialmente la biografia di un genio. 02. Joseph ...

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Cities & Streets

Label: Instant Composers Pool
Released: 1991

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Grand Duo

Label: Instant Composers Pool
Released: 1982

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PISA 1980: Improvisors' Symposium

Label: Instant Composers Pool
Released: 1981


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