minew Posted March 31, 2005 Report Posted March 31, 2005 Saw the Kollektief last night at Snug Harbor. What a rush of ideas! They played about 3 30-minute "pieces," each of which seeemed to encompass the entire history of jazz and related musics (as advertised). Sometimes the individual solos contained most of jazz history. I lost count of styles, but while I was still counting I noticed: ragtime, boogie-woogie, stride, marching band, trad, big band swing, polka, klezmer, Cage, Glass, Gershwin, bop, Miles' 60s 4tet, free blowing, polyrythymic/polyharmonic ensemble playing, Latin, and animal noises (a la ODJB). Breuker capped things off with a long solo that first harkened back 'Machine Gun' and delvoved into halting practice scales, saxophone laughter, and braying like a donkey. They are on world tour to commemorate 30 years of playing together. Next stop, I believe, is Chicago, which makes sense if you think about it. Don't miss it. Quote
minew Posted March 31, 2005 Author Report Posted March 31, 2005 Actually, looks like they just CAME FROM Chicago. Here's a schedule with some upcoming North American and European dates: March 2005 29 Chicago, USA: 30 New Orleans, USA: April 2005 02 Portland, Maine, USA: 03 New York, NY, USA: Tonic 04 Toronto, Canada: 05 Toronto, Canada: 08 Osnabruck, Germany: 09 Aachen, Germany: 17 Arnhem, Netherlands: Musis Sacrum, with Loes Luca May 2005 09 Amsterdam, Netherlands: , with Loes Luca 14 Veere, Netherlands: Nieuwe Muziek Zeeland 20 Amsterdam, Netherlands: BIMhuis June 2005 09 Montreal, Canada: La Casa Rossa 12 Rochester, NY, USA: Rochester Jazz Festival 15 Lyon, France: playing the Breuker score for the movie Faust (1926) by Murnau Quote
GA Russell Posted March 31, 2005 Report Posted March 31, 2005 It's great to see New Orleans included on the tour. When I grew up there, nobody came to town, except Roland Kirk once. About twenty years ago I bought their album A Paris, which I enjoy from time to time. Quote
minew Posted April 1, 2005 Author Report Posted April 1, 2005 It's great to see New Orleans included on the tour. When I grew up there, nobody came to town, except Roland Kirk once. About twenty years ago I bought their album A Paris, which I enjoy from time to time. We've had better luck recently with visits from Brotzmann, Billy Bang, Wm. Parker, Hamid Drake, Vandermark, Evan Parker, Mephista, Randy Weston, Muhal Richard Abrams, Ahmad Jamal, and Fred Anderson. It has slowed down in the last few months but hopefully not for long. Quote
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