Concerts

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See you at The Market: Wolter Wierbos

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Media, Video

See you at The Market: Wolter Wierbos

Wolter Wierbos is widely regarded as one of the leading trombonists in improvised music. His playing is wholly unique and alway effortlessly musical. Wolter plays with such passion and intuition that one can sometimes forget how mind-blowing his abilities on the instrument really are. As fellow trombonist Jeb Bishop said: “There are things on the trombone Wolter can do that no one else can do”. However, it’s still his strengths as an improviser that shine the brightest.…

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See you at The Market: Wilbert de Joode

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Media, News, Video

See you at The Market: Wilbert de Joode

Wilbert de Joode is widely regarded as one of the foremost bassists in improvised music. He plucks, prods, bows and scrapes his bass with impeccable intuition and a vast vocabulary drawing from all corners of improvised music. Completely self taught, his approach to the instrument and improvisation in general is wholly unique. Wilbert is also one of the most attentive listeners around, which ensures phenomenal tone regardless of setting. Whether playing fiery free jazz with the likes of Charles Gayle and the late Sunny Murray, sensitively negotiating abstract sonic landscapes with Christine Abdelnour and Le Quan Ninh or mischievously coaxing singing timbres out of a wine glass at a fine Italian eatery, quality of sound is always of utmost importance.…

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See you at The Market: Oscar Jan Hoogland

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Media, News, Video

See you at The Market: Oscar Jan Hoogland

The enfant terrible of the new Dutch impro scene, Oscar Jan Hoogland sprung onto the Amsterdam landscape approximately a decade ago, at the forefront of the latest group of improvisers to arrive and simultaneously uphold the tradition of New Dutch Swing even while tearing it apart. He is currently on faculty for the composition department at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague and the Mime department for the Academie voor Theater en Dans in Amsterdam.…

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See you at The Market: Onno Govaert

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Media, Video

See you at The Market: Onno Govaert

Onno Govaert’s percussion abilities, which display a rare combination of seemingly unlimited technical resources, great orchestral sense, fearless decision making, sensitivity and unbound energy, all add up to making him one of the best young drummers in improvised music. He’s a member of numerous Doek ensembles: Cactus Truck, Feecho, Kaja Draksler Octet, Stadhouders/de Joode/Govaert, Omawi and The PolyBand. He’s also involved in Doek adjacent ensembles including Bacchanalia and the Zebra Street Band. Besides playing with absolutely everyone in the Dutch music scene, Onno has performed with Peter Brötzmann, William Parker, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Rodrigo Amado, Linda Sharrock, Jeb Bishop and countless others.…

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See you at the Market: Miri Lee

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Media, Video

See you at The Market: Miri Lee

Miri Lee is a performer who has made a clear stamp on Amsterdam. Highly sought after as a contemporary dancer, choreographer and real-time performer, Miri has been as tireless as she’s been fearless in collaborating with anyone who’s anyone in the realms of visual art, music, science art, and theater performance. A natural improviser, with an intuitive ease that is contagious in an ensemble, she has also developed her own theoretical conception, which she terms Imprography methodology and which spawned the platform Collectief Imprography.…

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See you at the Market: Michael Moore

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Media, Video

See you at The Market: Michael Moore

It is incredibly rare to find a musician who is truly a master of free improvisation and traditional jazz forms. It’s reasonably common to find an improviser who can play within the jazz idiom, often in alarming and interesting ways, bending the conventions of the form to fit their interests. It’s also not uncommon to come across a consummate jazz musician who is willing to “go out” from time to time and explore the freedoms of non-idiomatic improvisation.…