Concerts in the USA
09/22 Merriman’s Playhouse, South Bend, IN
09/23 Spot Tavern, Lafayette, IN
09/24 Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Logan Center for the Arts (Univ of Chicago), IL
Amsterdam
10/19 De Ruimte
…“”The shit swings like mad, with reedist Keefe Jackson out front blazing melodic puzzles and the rhythm section playing with time like taffy. Every once in a while I need that reminder of why I love jazz, and here it is.”
Ada Rave – saxophones
Onno Govaert – drums
Aaron Lumley – double bass
“Bioluminus is a combustion machine of musical ideas and interaction. Ada Rave’s tenor playing has always boasted a voluminous tone and great control over extended techniques, but this trio with bassist Aaron Lumley and drummer Onno Govaert allows her to emphasize her melodic and harmonically based playing which is full of grit and vigor, to say nothing of the swinging, breathing rhythmic interplay amongst these three equal musical partners.…
A fantastic new release on Doek RAW, Swimming to Zaal was improvised at one of Zaal 100’s famous Tuesday night concerts byJasper Stadhouders, Nora Mulder, Aaron Lumley and Onno Govaert. The purest stereo recording by Aaron Lumley gives you a great representation of what this ensemble actually sounded like in the room. Photography by Sara Anke Morris.…
photo Vera Marmelo
John Dikeman, Luis Vicente, William Parker and Hamid Drake will be on the road again in July. The trio Dikeman, Parker, Drake has existed since 2014 when John Dikeman invited them to join him for the Doek Festival. Since then they have released a number of albums and toured throughout Europe. As part of a tour in 2019, Luis Vicente joined the group for a number of dates in Portugal creating this quartet and the album Goes Without Saying, but It’s Got to Be Said on the Portuguese JACC Records.…
“It all offers further proof that Draksler is one of the most potent musical minds of our times.”
The Quietus, Peter Margasak
In Otherness Oneself is the latest solo album by Kaja Draklser released by the Amsterdam label Unsounds. Here she explores the possibility of inventing and maintaining musical languages, and how those exist in the proximity of each other. Moving from composition to improvisation, freely using voices and electronics, Draksler delivers a gorgeous album with a powerful concept.
Buy now on Unsounds!…