Month: August 2014

The Zomer Jazz Fiets Tour is one of the highlights of the Dutch musical year. The programming is always excellent and diverse and the novel idea to bike from stage to stage across the northern Netherlands’ charming landscape is so appealing we borrowed the idea for the last two editions of the Doek Festival.

This year a number of Doek, or Doek related groups, will be performing:

Duo Delius / Scheen
Marie Guilleray / Eric Boeren 5tet
1000 & Eugene Chadbourne
Goudsmit / Bakker / Jäger

The complete programme is online at: Zomer Jazz Fiets Tour – Programme…

September 4, 20:30
Occii, Amstelveenseweg 134, Amsterdam €7

CASPAR BRÖTZMANN (DE), MASSIMO PUPILLO (IT, ZU), ALEXANDRE BABEL (CH) TRIO + CATHY HEYDEN (FR) / ROGIER SMAL DUO + CACTUS TRUCK
IN O.K./OUT K.O.

This will be a great night featuring the world premiere of Casper Brötzmann’s new power trio with Massimo Pupillo (Zu, OffonOff) and Alexandre Babel (worked with Keiji Heino, Sudden Infant). Cactus Truck will be on the bill as well as Rogier Smal, a mainstay of Occii and one of the busiest performers around, duo with the French saxophonist Cathy Heyden.…

This Saturday afternoon, August 16, we have Oscar Jan Hoogland performing mobile piano at Westerpark as part of the ongoing Herbert Nouwens sculpture exhibition. Oscar is known for his ability to turn one of the most stationary instruments in western music into something surprisingly portable, as can be witnessed in his Bakfietsband (which will be playing the closing event for the exhibition). How he will deal with this challenge, we don’t know… But it’s sure to be highly inventive musically and logistically and how often do those two coincide?…

Thursday August 14 21:00
De Ruimte, Buiksloterdijk 270, Amsterdam Noord

Jooklo Duo (IT)
Virginia Genta – saxophones
David Vanzan – drums

WDGØ (NL, NO, USA)
Wolter Wierbos – trombone
John Dikeman – saxophone
Ernst Glerum – bass
Tollef Østvang – drums

Tollef Ostvang is dropping in to Amsterdam for a couple days so we’ve put together a show featuring him with Doek musicians Wolter Wierbos and John Dikeman plus ICP bassist (among numerous other projects) Ernst Glerum. Tollef has performed in Amsterdam many times previously including with Universal Indians featuring Joe McPhee as well as the Available Jelly Big Band at Doek Festival #11.…