Vancouver International Jazz Festival features Dutch Artists

ByJohn Dikeman

This June, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival will feature performances from three Dutch trios, all of which are Doek related.
The Dutch focus will premiere on 26 June 2021 at 17:30 (PST) on the YouTube channel of Coastal Jazz.

OMAWI Trio
Marta Warelis – piano
Wilbert de Joode – bass
Onno Govaert – drums

From Amsterdam’s flourishing improvised music circuit, OMAWI unites rising stars Onno Govaert (Cactus Truck) drums and Marta Warelis (Michael Moore, Ab Baars) piano with ‘old dog’ bassist Wilbert de Joode, one of European improv’s most recognized and active players and the 2016 winner of the Netherlands’ most prestigious jazz award, the Boy Edgar. Together, they create music that is urgent, elastic, and “free of all the clichés of the modern jazz piano trio” (Salt Peanuts).

Michael Moore’s Dice Cup Trio
Michael Moore – reeds player
Omer Govreen – bass
Nino Baleyte – drums

A new project from veteran Amsterdam-based reeds player Michael Moore, Dice Cup Trio takes Max Jacob’s 1923 collection of tightly constructed, absurdly humorous prose poems Le Cornet a Dés as its jumping-off point. Combining rigor with a streak of mischief is not a new lark for Moore, though. Since relocating from California in 1982, the Boy Edgar Award-winner has been a lynchpin of the Dutch scene, and a member of the iconic and iconoclastic Instant Composers Pool Orchestra alongside collaborators like Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg.

Moore is joined by bassist Omer Govreen (Billy Cobham, Anat Fort) and Nino Baleyte, a dynamic French drummer who also plays in Govreen’s trio Garden Crack.

Trio Vatcher/Stadhouders/Petruccelli
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Miguel Petruccelli – bass
Michael Vatcher – drums

Bursting forth from Amsterdam’s vibrant improvised music scene in 2019, the classic “power trio” instrumentation is put to full use by guitarist Jasper Stadhouders, bassist Miguel Petruccelli, and drummer Michael Vatcher. Never shying away from pummeling grooves, noisy outbursts, sudden silences, abstract reflections, and unexpected shifts, this non-hierarchal trio is always in fiery forward motion.