Ab Baars

Blessed in 1955 in Magrette, HOLLAND, multi-reedist Stomach Baars is a distinctive and prolific contributor towards the Dutch creative jazz picture, involved in several ensembles as head so when collaborator, and in addition an accomplished single performer. His inimitable feeling of phrasing, fearless deployment of expanded methods, and idiosyncratic tonal/timbral strategies have gained him worldwide attention, and non-e apart from Misha Mengelberg coined the word “ab music” being a succinct descriptor for his personal design. Baars’ initial device was the tenor saxophone, which he started playing in the first ’70s in his hometown of Eindhoven, and by 1975 he was an associate of bassist Niko Langenhuijsen’s free of charge jazz Ohm Sextet, producing his debut with an eponymously entitled vinyl LP with the ensemble documented in a live time in Vlissingen during November 1977. On the pursuing years, Baars started studies on the Rotterdam Conservatory and became mixed up in Dutch improvisational and modern classical music moments. His debut LP being a head, Carrousel, premiered by the info label in 1984; the record included trio parts (with Guus Janssen on piano and Mariëtte Rouppe truck der Voort on alto saxophone, flute, and piccolo) in addition to several solo monitors offering the reedman on either tenor or soprano saxophone. 2 yrs later, Baars became a member of pianist Mengelberg’s ICP Orchestra, a groundbreaking ensemble which has continued to create him a few of his highest worldwide visibility. Baars produced his initial documented appearance (on tenor and soprano saxophones and clarinet) with ICP on 1987’s Two Applications: Performs Herbie Nichols and Thelonious Monk, as well as the reedman provides appeared on every one of the group’s following recordings extending in to the 21st hundred years. The entire year 1989 was quite effective and successful for Baars: he attained Dutch Ministry of Lifestyle offer support for research in LA with clarinetist John Carter; he received a Youngster Edgar Prijs jazz prize; and Krang, his initial album comprised completely of unaccompanied single shows (on soprano, tenor, and baritone saxophones and clarinet), premiered with the Geestgronden label, which would also concern a lot of his following albums of the time frame, including his second recording of unaccompanied solos (on clarinet and tenor saxophone), 1997’s Verderame. Because the ’90s started, Baars formed probably his most significant group like a innovator, the Ab Baars Trio offering bassist Wilbert de Joode and drummer Martin vehicle Duynhoven. The trio’s debut disk, 3900 Carol Courtroom, was called after Carter’s address, and released by Geestgronden in 1992, the entire year from the clarinetist’s loss of life. Geestgronden would to push out a amount of Ab Baars Trio albums through the remainder from the ’90s and in to the fresh millennium, including 1995’s live Sprok, 1999’s A FREE OF CHARGE Step (consisting completely of Carter compositions), and 2001’s Tunes (offering interpretations of Local American music). Baars would request various well-known numbers from the avant jazz and innovative improvised music globe to tour and/or record along with his trio over time, including soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, trombonist Roswell Rudd, and multi-reedist Ken Vandermark. In 2001, the info label released Four, from the Ab Baars Trio plus Rudd, and in 2003 the Hairpiece imprint released the trio’s ten-year wedding anniversary album Party in the Bimhuis, documented live at Amsterdam’s preeminent jazz location in January of this year and offering the group supplemented by guests violist Ig Henneman, Mengelberg, Janssen, and Rouppe vehicle der Voort. In 2008 Hairpiece released Goofy June Insect from the trio plus Vandermark on tenor sax and clarinet, and in 2011 Hairpiece repackaged the prior trio recordings 3900 Carol Courtroom, A Free Stage, Tracks, and Party on the Bimhuis within the five-CD established Ab Baars Trio twenty years: 1991-2011, including a disk of brand-new Baars compositions, Gawky Stride. A lot of Baars’ are a head and collaborator through the brand-new millennium continues to be released with the Hairpiece label, controlled by Baars and violist Henneman, somebody towards the reedman in lifestyle in addition to music and business. These albums included Veer and Haul, a 2003 duet documenting by Baars and Rouppe truck der Voort; Kinda Dukish, a 2005 documenting with the Ab Baars Quartet (Baars’ regular trio plus trombonist Joost Buis); and 2010’s Time and energy to Perform My Lions, Baars’ third record of unaccompanied solos, this time around performed on tenor sax, clarinet, and shakuhachi, the last mentioned a musical instrument he initial purchased and researched in 2005 and started including in his shows and recordings thereafter. Baars and Henneman also started a duo task after executing at Rome’s Celebration Controindicazioni in 1999; Duo Baars-Henneman possess toured world-wide and released two Hairpiece albums, Stof (2006) and Fall Tracks (2013), and Sliptong, an record with the trio of Baars, Henneman, and pianist Mengelberg, came on Hairpiece in ’09 2009. Baars in addition has performed and documented with ensembles led by Henneman, like the Ig Henneman Tentet (showing up on the Hairpiece albums Do it again That, Do it again in 1995 and Indigo in 1998) and Ig Henneman Sextet (Slice a Caper in 2011 and Live @ the Ironworks Vancouver in 2012). Other performers with whom Baars offers documented throughout his profession are the Maarten Altena non-et, Cor Fuhler’s Corkestra, and Terrie Ex lover from the Ex.