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The ICP (or Quick Composers Pool) Orchestra has achieved international acclaim because of its advanced improvisations, ingenious interpretations of landmark composers such as for example Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, as well as the bandmembers’ extraordinary degree of musicianship. The Amsterdam-based group is certainly a mixture of Western european innovative …

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 …

In Dec of 2010, the entire year marking her 65th birthday and 25th anniversary being a composer/bandleader, Dutch violist Ig Henneman assembled a sextet of improvising “kindred spirits” and embarked on the Western european tour. The group included four music artists with whom Henneman acquired worked over time — reedman …

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 …