Day 1 of the Festival: April 29 – THESE THINGS HAPPEN – Amsterdam/Chicago
The music of These Things Happen is a commuting between Chicago and Amsterdam, Composition and Improvisation, Sobriety and without hesitation, wild playfulness and purity. Starting with classical pieces and originals from the Dutch and American Jazz traditions, the trio will digress, covering new ground: Discover and ignore, grab and release, creating and letting go…
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Day 1 of the festival: April 29 – HYPERACTIVE KID
Coming from improvisation-stronghold Berlin, Hyperactive Kid will give a vibrant,
energetic performance at the beautiful Bimhuis!
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April 29th / May 4th
This year’s Doek festival will present bands and musicians who typify the flourishing improv scenes in Amsterdam, Berlin and Chicago. It will be an action packed six days with music, film and dance all over town.
Let’s tell you a bit more about…..
Day 1 of the festival: April 29
At the Bimhuis these three bands will be playing
From Amsterdam Michael Moore Bigtet
Michael Moore, alto sax
Eric Boeren, clarinet
Wolter Wierbos, trombone
Giuseppe Doronzo baritone sax
Jorrit Westerhof, guitar
Kaja Draksler, piano
Arjen Gorter, double bass
Han Bennink, drums
From Berlin Hyperactive Kid
Philipp Gropper, saxophone
Ronny Graupe, guitar
Christian Lillinger, drums
and Chicago based These Things Happen
Keefe Jackson, tenor sax
Oscar Jan Hoogland, piano
Josh Abrams, double bass
Mikel Avery, drums
venue: Bimhuis
start: 20:30 hr
ticket at the door: €20 / €17 (CJP, Studenten-, Stadspas)
Free for ‘We Are Public‘ members
Festival pass whole festival: €55…
ABC DOEK FESTIVAL 2016
Amsterdam – Berlin – Chicago
Capitals of Improvisation
April 29 – May 4
THESE THINGS HAPPEN
HYPERACTIVE KID
MICHAEL MOORE BIGTET
WARELIS/GOVAERT/DEJOODE
ANNETTE KREBS – KONSTRUKTION #2
JASON ROEBKE OCTET
BISHOP/BORGHINI/DIKEMAN/DRAKSLER/LILLINGER
HOOK, LINE & SINKER
JOSHUA ABRAMS’ NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
JASPER STADHOUDERS’ POLYBAND
OKAPI
AMSTERDAM REAL BOOK FIETS TOUR
MONDAY MATCH
COLLABORATION WITH LINKS HALL
COMPOSITION WORKSHOP ENSEMBLE
plus DOEK FESTIVAL ON TOUR @ KORZO April 28
and more…
Doek is now in full force preparing for the upcoming Doek festival.…
Blog 6: Monday 8 June
Withdrawal
by Kevin Whitehead
photography by Sara Anke Morris
Sunday, the final day of the Doek/Tri-Centric festival, let us listeners quietly come down from all the excitement the orchestra built up last week. A few American guests lingered to play yesterday’s four-stop bicycle tour. Still high from Saturday’s Misha Mengelberg retrospective, wherever we went musicians were playing his tunes. We only made it to half the biking gigs—partly because everyone has to sleep sometime, partly because when a house manager tells us we’ll need to don blindfolds in order to be seated, as at the Pianola Museum, we are tiptoeing backwards out the door.…
Blog #5 June 7
Sounds checked
by Kevin Whitehead
The Doek/Tri-Centric orchestra was playing the slow parts of Ingrid Laubrock’s “Offering,” soundchecking on Saturday afternoon. Glowing chords wafted up from the ensemble, and the beautiful blend of distinctive voices sounded eerily like some lost Gil Evans classic of the early 1960s: you could listen to those harmonies all day. This band/ensemble/musicians pool of 19 achieved that delicate balance of individual voices and collective strengths that makes jazz such a popular metaphor for societal relationships (and vice versa).…