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Bimhuis 45 years – Super group led by Oscar Jan Hoogland

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, News

Saturday 12 October – 20:30
Super group curated by Oscar Jan Hoogland:
Laura Polence, voice
Mola Sylla, voice
Felicity Provan, trumpet
Benjamin Herman, alto sax
David Kweksilber, reeds
Tobias Delius, tenor sax, clarinet
Andy Moor, electric guitar
Oscar Jan Hoogland, piano, electric clavichord
Ernst Glerum, double bass
Gerri Jäger, drums, percussion
Bimhuis

The Bimhuis has been around for 45 years and is celebrating its birthday with a new super group curated by Doek’s own Oscar Jan Hoogland. Oscar selected musicians that show the wide range of music that has passed through the Bimhuis and influenced him personally.…

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Eric Boeren 4tet opens new season of Jazz Inverdan

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Media, News, Video

Sunday 8 September – 16:00
Eric Boeren 4tet
Jazz Inverdan
de Doopsgezinde Vermaning, Westzijde 80, Zaandam

Amsterdam is bustling with improvised music from all generations and nationalities. However, Amsterdam isn’t the only place in the Netherlands to see world class music. In Zaandam we have the Jazz Inverdan series, formerly known as Jazz in Serah. Back then, Eric Boeren was the curator. Eric is no longer curating, but instead has been asked to open the 2019/2020 season with the incomparable Eric Boeren 4tet.…

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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.…

The Market

Bydoek News

Here’s a little film of Doek Festival 2019, The Market: thank you Elsie Vermeer en Seeltje van Boeckel. Half August we’ll post a much longer film, but this is a nice teaser!…

Kaja Draksler Octet – festival hit

Bydoek News

The Kaja Draklser Octet has been busy these past weeks with appearances at Ljubljana Jazz Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Molde Jazz Festival and Wonderfeel. Read Peter Margasak’s Downbeat review of the octet’s Ljubljana performance below. If that makes you curious to hear the Kaja Draksler Octet, then get along to De Bijloke Muziekcentrum  in Gent on 28 September.
“A number of Slovenian artists performed throughout the festival without leaving much of an impression. But pianist Kaja Draksler—a native now based in Copenhagen after a lengthy spell in Amsterdam—gave the best performance of the festival with her unconventional octet, finessing gossamer-fine chamber pieces, mostly built around the poetry of Robert Frost.…