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Ada Rave featured in JazzNU

ByJohn Dikeman Image, Media, News


Ada Rave in JazzNu
JazzNu has declared January 2020 to be tenor month. Along with Ab Baars, Mete Erker, Yuri Honing and Ties Mellema, Ada Rave is featured for her undeniable contribution to the Dutch sax scene, specifically for her solo playing. In this in-depth interview she talks about growing up in a small town in Patagonia, Argentina, riding horses and connecting with nature. We then follow her development, discovering jazz and picking up the saxophone, and everything that transpired to bring her and her music to Amsterdam.…

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Michael Moore Fragile Quartet tour, new releases

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, News

January 16 Bimhuis, Amsterdam
January 17 Toonzaal, Den Bosch, NL
January 18 TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
January 19 Pletterij, Haarlem
January 25 AMR, Geneva, Switzerland

Michael Moore – clarinet, alto saxophone
Harmen Fraanje – piano
Clemens van der Feen – bass
Gerry Hemingway – drums

Michael Moore’s Fragile Quartet has existed since 2007 and, as could be expected by the name, presents his music in the most intimate of settings. With every tour for the quartet, Michael composes new material and these concerts will explore compositions from the latest quartet album, “Cretan Dialogues“.…

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PolyBand at Gaudeamus Muziekweek

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, News

Jasper Stadhouders’ PolyBand
Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Saturday 7 September
TivoliVredenburg – Cloud Nine
22:30 – 00:00

“For years guitarist Jasper Stadhouders has been a sensation on the Amsterdam and international free improvisation scene, but his ambitions extend further. Gaudeamus is glad to help him realize his dreams by commissioning a work to be performed by his PolyBand. With PolyBand he brings together a large group of musician friends of his for a dizzying, unstoppable cocktail of krautrock, mathcore, cumbia and more. The gigantic band keeps switching between tight control and total surrender, in a 90-minute-long hypnotizing composition which could just as easily last 6 hours.…

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see you at the market: Harald Austbø

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, Media, News, Video

Third up in See you at The Market: Harald Austbø.
Harald Austbø is known for his creative and original contributions to the theater and music worlds as actor, singer and cellist. He is freakishly talented, equally at home serving the bass role in a jazz group as playing thoroughly notated melodic lines. Quite often, he’ll do both at the same time whilst beatboxing or improvising nonsense rap over top. Something of a highly dependable wild-card, he manages to provide rock solid support to any ensemble he performs with yet remain spontaneous, drawing on a wealth of influences from jazz, classical, rock, pop, samba, hip hop, spoken word, poetry, theater, performance art and improvisation of all sorts.…

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See You at the Market: Dana Jessen

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, Media, News

In the lead-up to The Market, Doek Festival 2019, we’ll be regularly posting small profiles of those involved: See you at The Market.
Second in the series See You at The Market: Dana Jessen
Praised for her diverse talents, bassoonist Dana Jessen is in high demand as a soloist, chamber musician, improviser and new music specialist. Her strong ambitions to explore free jazz and creative improvisation have led to performances throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States with European and North American improvisers.…

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See You at the Market: Annelie Koning

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, Media, News

In the lead-up to The Market, Doek Festival 2019, we’ll be regularly posting small profiles of those involved: See you at The Market.
It’s in alphabetical order, so we kick off with Annelie Koning.
Annelie Koning’s passion for improvisation, lyrics and all the sounds the voice can make led her to become an experimental vocalist and composer. Her music combines the freshness of composing in the moment with the power of words and a rich pallet of vocal colours and sounds.…