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Ernst Reijseger, Harmen Fraanje, Mola Sylla: Count Till Zen
by Luca Muchetti
Ascoltate questo album, perché è una delle più belle collezioni di brani pubblicate in questi ultimi cinque anni. Dei tanti modi in cui ci si potrebbe divertire tentando di definire nel modo più attuale il jazz (chissà poi perché e con che diritto) in Count Till Zen troverete ipostatizzata in dieci brani la definizione più estensiva ...
Blue Lines Trio: Blue Lines Trio
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 ...
ZZ Quartet: Beyond the Lines
by Glenn Astarita
Three Europeans and celebrated American drummer Adam Nussbaum stir up some chutzpah via the guitar-accordion based format. In recent times the accordion's role in jazz-centric vernaculars has been expanding. And while this quartet doesn't invent a newfound genre, its spunky and articulate disposition, containing all original compositions engender a sophisticated outlook. With alternating tempos and several ...
Rogier Telderman Trio: Contours
by Bruce Lindsay
The debut recording from Holland's Rogier Telderman Trio, Contours features nine of the pianist's original compositions. In partnership with Guus Bakker on bass and Tuur Moens on drums, Telderman has crafted an album notable for its varied musical and emotional range as well as for its excellent musicianship.Telderman's writing is melodic and lyrical but ...
Festival Jazz International Promotes Rotterdam Renaissance
by Phillip Woolever
After an excellent full day program centered by national talent at Rotterdam's Festival Jazz International, two strong impressions rang very clear. The first was that considering current performers, experimentation and ongoing tradition, the Netherlands is obviously one of the per capita international leaders regarding the size and scope of a national jazz scene.
Thomas Chapin Film Project Ends Europe Filming At The Famous Bimhuis In Amsterdam
This week, EMMY-winning U.S. filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo ends her filming for her documentary Thomas Chapin, Night Bird Song at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam's and Europe's jewel for jazz and improvisational music performances. Castillo concludes her four-country tour, which started in Paris, in Holland where her effort to gather the stories of Thomas Chapin in Europe have ...
Rogier Telderman Trio Presents Debut Album "Contours"
Uplifting narrative music On December 2nd the Dutch Rogier Telderman Trio will present their debut album Contours. Apart from pianist and bandleader Rogier Telderman the trio comprises Guus Bakker on double bass and drummer Tuur Moens. The nine playful and uplifting cutting-edge tracks on the album have all been written by Telderman. The release will be ...
Gideon Van Gelder: Lighthouse
by Mark F. Turner
Amsterdam-based pianist Gideon van Gelder filters more bright ideas into his appropriately titled sophomore release Lighthouse, the follow up to the enlightening 2011 debut Perpetual (Kindred Spirits Records). This time the program juxtaposes funky ostinato pieces alongside beautiful tone-poem-like selections drawn from a wellspring of influences that include Stevie Wonder, Prince, and Bjork. ...
Tineke Postma/Greg Osby: Sonic Halo
by Dan Bilawsky
Greg Osby has influenced legions of saxophonists over the past two-plus decades. On Sonic Halo, one of those players stands tall beside him. Once upon a time, Osby and dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma had a mentor-mentee relationship, but that was then, and this is now. Both players are equals on this probing venture. ...
November Music 2014
by Henning Bolte
November Music s' Hertogenbosch November 8-9, 2014 November Music is a festival of contemporary music, new music in the broadest sense, held in the medieval town of s'-Hertogenbosch in the southeast of The Netherlands and home of painter Jheronimus Bosch (1450-1516). Besides the core of contemporary composers' music there are neighboring branches ...
