Duo Baars-Henneman

World-class innovative improvisers and important members from the Dutch innovative jazz and improvised music community, multi-reedist Ab Baars and violist Ig Henneman possess toured and documented like a duo for more than a decade. Apart from their duo, couple Baars and Henneman have already been market leaders and collaborators in a multitude of other projects over time, and both are mainstays from the impartial Wig label, located in Amsterdam. Baars offers led his personal Ab Baars Trio (with bassist Wilbert de Joode and drummer Martin vehicle Duynhoven) since 1990 and in addition has used the groundbreaking ICP Orchestra because the mid-’80s; he’s also noted like a single performer on his selected devices, tenor saxophone, clarinet, and shakuhachi. Henneman can be an acclaimed violist, composer, and improviser that has led several ensembles because the early ’90s, including a quintet, tentet, and string quartet. Furthermore, she is an associate from the trio edition of Queen Mab, in the beginning founded like a duo by two Canadians, pianist Marilyn Lerner and clarinetist Lori Freedman. Created on the event of Henneman’s 65th birthday and 25th wedding anniversary like a composer/bandleader, the Ig Henneman Sextet (also offering Baars, de Joode, Lerner, Freedman, and trumpeter Axel Dörner) showed up on the worldwide innovative improvising picture in Dec 2010. Although that they had performed collectively in various configurations with other music artists since the past due ’80s, an invitation for the set to try out at Rome’s Event Controindicazioni in 1999 would 1st set up Baars and Henneman as a continuing concertizing and documenting duo. They started touring worldwide, getting their particular meld of free of charge improvisation and made up music to locations across European countries and THE UNITED STATES (aswell as Japan and Brazil), and released a debut recording of duets, Stof (consisting mainly of improvisations), on the Hairpiece imprint in 2006. In ’09 2009, Hairpiece released Sliptong, firmly speaking not really a duo outing but instead an record by Baars, Henneman, and ICP head/pianist Misha Mengelberg documented at Amsterdam’s Bimhuis in Dec of the prior year. In nov 2012, Duo Baars-Henneman embarked on the 15-time fall tour of america that got them in the united states from Seattle’s Earshot Jazz Celebration to Brooklyn’s ShapeShifter Laboratory. The pair created a “collection of openly improvised and minimally constructed parts” for the event, and upon time for The Netherlands, documented the collection in past due November 2012 in the Bimhuis. The outcomes appeared around the duo’s sophomore recording, Autumn Tunes, released by Hairpiece in Feb 2013.