Doek @ Zaal

Doek @ Zaal – February 28: the state of your equipment

ByJohn Dikeman Uncategorized

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Sunday 28 Febuary
20:00 – free entry!

Wolter Wierbos and Joost Buis talk about their trombones.
Eric Boeren speaks with Felicity Provan about cornets and trumpets.
Eric talks to pianist Marta Warelis about her instrument.

Musicians talk about their instruments. Sharing anecdotes, thoughts about brands, the different sounds they get from different instruments, what the ideal sound is and how they try to get it out of their gear, they’ll give you an inside look at how they manage to coax beauty out of these hunks of metal, wood, strings… Their experience with using their equipment to let them express what they need to express.…

Doek @ Zaal – January 31, Bass clarinet festival after party

ByJohn Dikeman Uncategorized

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Sunday 31 January
20:00 – free entry!

Hosted by Tobias Klein

The second edition of the Basklarinet Festijn will finish on January 31 with an afternoon concert in Nijmegen. We thought we’d invite part organizer and brilliant improviser Tobias Klein to host an after party for the first 2016 Doek @ Zaal. We expect a plethora of clarinetists to come, improvise, chat, and get funky on the dance floor.

And, if you love bass clarinet as much as we all do, don’t miss the great Chicago bass clarinetist Jason Stein’s performance at De Ruimte the following night with Hearts and Minds.…

big fun in the big town – doek @ zaal

Bydoek Uncategorized

Big Fun in the Big TownSunday 29 November
Zaal 100
20:00 Free!
The last edition of DOEK@Zaal100 for this year focuses on the community around the various creative musical approaches within the Amsterdam music scene and introduces a website project tightly connected to this scene.
With the participation of several curators and organisers from the scene the evening begins with short self-introductions and discussion sessions with focus on the working mechanisms, changes and developments within the community.
We’ll then show Big Fun in the Big Town, a great film about another music scene – the hip hop scene in New York in the mid 80s.…

DOEK @ ZAAL – September 27, shhhhhh live recording!

ByJohn Dikeman Uncategorized

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Sunday 27 September
20:00 – free entry!

Luis Vicente – trumpet
John Dikeman – saxophone
Wilbert de Joode – bass
Onno Govaert – drums

This month we will be doing a live recording in Zaal 100 with a quartet chosen by Portuguese trumpet monster Luis Vicente. It could be argued that live performance is the ideal environment for recording improvised music. So much of the music draws on the energy of the room and the audience. Come be a part of the process and hear this quartet in action!…

Doek @ Zaal 100 June 28

ByJohn Dikeman News

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Sunday 28 June
20:00 – free entry!

Wolter Wierbos hosts trombone night

With Sam Kulik, Koen Kaptijn, Joost Buis, Salvoandrea Lucifora

Doek @ Zaal 100 is a monthly meeting place for music, discussion, art and drinks. For this edition Wolter Wierbos has brought together an exceptional crew of trombonists from around the world coming from both classical and jazz backgrounds. Some of them are based in the Netherlands, and a couple are just travelling though. Either way, this will be an unbelievable evening of trombone madness including improvisation, discussion over the music and the instrument, and since there are some doublers in the group, a few guitars might pop up as well.…

Doek @ zaal 100 April 26 – Ken Aldcroft, Scott Thomson, Kevin Shea

ByJohn Dikeman News

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Sunday 26 March
20:00 – free entry!

Ken Aldcroft – guitar
Scott Thomson – trombone
John Dikeman – saxophone
Kevin Shea – drums

We’re celebrating Koningsnacht with some amazing musicians from the New World. I’m sure they’ll wear orange though.

Ken Aldcroft and Scott Thomson have been performing together since 2005. In addition, they have worked together extensively as co-founders of the Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto (AIMToronto), a musicians’ collective that hosted many exceptional visiting musicians, including Evan Parker, William Parker, Eddie Prévost, Joe McPhee, and Urs Leimgruber, always in collaboration with Toronto musicians.…