Release Date: 28 February 2025
Label: New Arts International
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917359527
Genres: Jazz  
Release Date: 28 February 2025
Label: New Arts International
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917359527
Genres: Jazz  
Description
The debut release by the DutchEpoxy Quartet. The ensemble provides space to four award-winning musicians - Koen Gijsman (piano), Kasper Rietkerk (saxophones), Tuomas Ruokonen (drums), and Kim Jager (cello) - who are all experienced improvisers and composers in their own right.
This album consists of 9 pieces based on scenes, photos, people, and experiences from my own life, plus two free improvisations. Although they are my personal memories, we recollect these experiences collectively as we translate them into sound. I share my personal experiences with the ensemble using materials ranging from graphic scores and written melodies, to photos and stories. I invite the others to individually interpret what I offer them. These materials function as unfinished compositions and as such challenge us to creatively connect our own ideas and sounds to the music, over and over again. To deal with this freedom in a musical way, we developed strategies for collective improvisation during a two-year artistic research process focused on the Dutch tradition of free improvisation from the 1960s. This combination of recollection and improvisation has resulted in a record that is playful and personal, yet has an evocative, nostalgic, and impressionist character.
Tracklisting
The Eric Ineke JazzXpress Feat. Tineke Postma
Various Artists
Xose Miguelez
Teun Wisse & Teun Braken
Linos Piano Trio
Duke Ellington
Clemens Gottwald
Ben Markley Big Band & Ari Hoenig
Howl Quartet
Howl Quartet
Fred Hersch Trio
Mark Lettieri Group & WDR Big Band
Oregon
Nils Wogram's Root '70
Nils Wogram/Root 70
Kip Hanrahan