Featured Artist – Oscar Jan Hoogland

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Oscar Jan Hoogland piano, electric clavichord, etc

Oscar Jan Hoogland, Amsterdam 1983, is an improviser, pianist, composer based in Amsterdam. From an article by Kevin Whitehead: “Oscar Jan Hoogland represents the so-called “fourth generation” of Dutch improvisers, in the lineage of Misha Mengelberg, Guus Janssen and Cor Fuhler―smart pianist/composers with an itch to make music that cuts across genres, who don’t take themselves so seriously, but whose whimsical music has real bite and brainpower.”
He works within fixed bands and groups as well as in first time collaboration settings. Besides improvising he has composed for several theater and dance pieces and has been writing for his own groups as well as for other ensembles and soloists. By now he is traveling the rest of Europe, the U.S., Japan, Brazil and Argentina with his bands playing at underground venues and major festivals like Moers, North Sea Jazz, and Buenos Aires Jazz.
Current bands are EKE, The Ambush Party, Duo Han Bennink/Oscar Jan Hoogland, The Royal Improviser Orchestra, The Phonograph Orchestra, Chris Corstens Quartet, solo electric clavichord, de Bakfietsband, Voiceover, The Job and FAUT HAUT, All Ellington.