MP3 Clazz Ensemble - Adventures Live at the Bimhuis
A smooth cooperative effort between two idioms(modern classical and jazz music. With strong soloists, the Clazz Ensemble has clear international allure.
8 MP3 Songs in this album (72:23) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Contemporary Jazz, CLASSICAL: Contemporary
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Details:
The Clazz Ensemble is a ''small big band'' that performs works on the cutting edge of modern jazz and composed music. In this new Dutch ensemble, founded in 2007, trumpeter-composer Gerard Kleijn and saxophonist-composer Dick de Graaf bring together several generations of top musicians from jazz and classical music to surprise audiences with their adventurous frontier-crossing music written by contemporary composers from modern classical music and from jazz and improvised music.
For its first project ''ADVENTURES'' the Clazz Ensemble commissioned compositions from David Dramm, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Maud Sauer, Frank Carlberg, Nico Langenhuijsen, Konrad Koselleck, Michael Moore, Ilja Reijngoud, Dick de Graaf, Marco C. de Bruin, Ig Henneman and Arend Niks.
Saxophones/Clarinets:
Michael Moore, Dick de Graaf, Nils van Haften, Arno Bornkamp
Trumpet/ Flugelhorn:
Martijn de Laat, Frank Anepool, Gerard Kleijn
Trombones: Ilja Reijngoud, Koen Kaptijn
Piano: Kris Goessens,
bass: Paul Berner
Drums: Joost Kesselaar
Clazz strong in the new jazz
( NRC / main Dutch Evening paper)
The Clazz Ensemble is one of the best initiatives in recent years.
I immediately felt like a fish in water when my recent piece ''Pimpin'' landed on the music stands of the Clazz Ensemble.
Jacob ter Veldhuis (composer of ''Pimpin'' for the Clazz Ensemble)