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This is Our Music – Artist portrait Wilbert de Joode

ByJohn Dikeman Media, News, Video

Wilbert de Joode
Featured Ensemble for Doek Festival 2018
Ab Baars Trio
Saturday June 16 – Bimhuis

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.…

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This is Our Music – Artist portrait Oscar Jan Hoogland

ByJohn Dikeman Media, News, Video

Oscar Jan Hoogland
Featured Ensemble for Doek Festival 2018
Hoogland, Sylla, Rosaly
June 15 – Bimhuis

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. Having studied both piano and composition at the conservatorium, Oscar is possibly most notable for his fearless ability to use any and every influence as stimuli for improvisation and experimentation.…

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space is the place ft doek – May

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, News, Video

May 11 – 21:00
De Ruimte
€8 Space is the Place ft. Doek, €6 Second Stop, €10 combined ticket

Eric Boeren – cornet

Felicity Provan 5tet
Felicity Provan – cornet, voice
Han Buhrs – voice
Ada Rave – saxophone
Harald Austbo – cello, voice
Michael Vatcher – drums

The final edition of Space is the Place/Second Stop is Jupiter for this season is a full on brass onslaught. We’ll have a solo from resident cornetist Eric Boeren followed by one of Doek’s favorite non-Doek ensembles, the Felicity Provan 5tet.…

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EDDIE AND THE EAGLES: Enough is Enough

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, News, Video

March 31 – 22:00 – 05:00
The Bimhuis
€16 Regular, €13 CJP/Stadspas/Student

“Eddie and the Eagles is back for our biggest edition so far. You’ve been there at OT301 and De Ruimte. It’s time to hit the elite stage and turn it inside out. Backwards. Bottom up. The Bimhuis is ours till 5 o’clock in the morning.”

LIFT PROGRAM WITH EXPLICIT ELEVATOR MUSIC:

ENTRANCE THROUGH-> PARKING -1

PRACTICAL MUSIC! enter our ship through the engine room.
Oscar Jan Hoogland machines/ sirens/ recordplayers/ gokautomaat/ analogue synth/ electric clavichord/ real to real/ megaphones, Jasper Stadhouders guitar, Christian Lillinger drums

GO UP -> proceed, stay focused, tune in and get out.…

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The AMS-USA Exchange

ByJohn Dikeman Audio, Concerts, News

John Dikeman – saxophone
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Tony Piazza – bass
Adam Shead – drums

2/22 – Ziggy’s, Ypsilanti, MI
2/23 – The Spot, Lafayette, IN
2/24 – Art Lit Lab Madison, WI
2/25 – Hungry Brain Chicago, IL
2/26 – The Bramble, South Bend, IN
2/27 – Spread Art, Detroit, MI
2/28 – TBA, Cleveland, OH
3/1 – Rhizome, DC
3/2 – Sound Hole, Philadelphia, PA
3/3 – H010, NYC, NY

In 2017 American percussionist and composer Adam Shead came to Amsterdam to immerse himself in the rich Dutch improvised music scene.…

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Space is the Place ft Doek – February

ByJohn Dikeman Media, News, Video

February 9 – 21:00
De Ruimte
€8 Space is the Place ft. Doek, €6 Second Stop, €10 combined ticket

This night’s program: the return of the veterans of the new Amsterdam impro scene, The Ambush Party. Plus a solo performance by Jasper Stadhouders!

Then over to the big room for the Second Stop is Jupiter at 23:00, with danceable jazz, Turkish and cumbia music.

Space is the Place ft. Doek, followed by The Second Stop is Jupiter, will take place every 2nd Friday of the month from January until May.…