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now: feb 2015 ICP had a great time on our lightning-fast USA tour in January. Some people were nice enough to say some nice things about the shows:
"And the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra, from Amsterdam, mixing swing and bop (including Herbie Nichols’ ballad “Spinning Song” and Bennie Moten’s “Moten Swing”) with conducted improvisations and free jazz. But all those ingredients need quotation marks. That nine-piece ensemble, a dynastic family going back to the late 1960s, has some idiosyncratic and brilliant soloists, including the drummer Han Bennink, the saxophonist Michael Moore and the cellist Tristan Honsinger; they are scholars and physical comedians, critics and joy-spreaders."
"Founded by Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink about 30 years ago, the ICP Orchestra took to the LPR stage like a firecracker - an exposition of free improvisation, Ellingtonian impressions and spoken word integrations delivered with the fervor of a theater troupe. The group's pre-bop was remarkably sincere - the spiky free/avant-garde edges were added to give texture, not irreverence or irony, and were aided by great soloists like trombonist Wolter Wierbos and reedist Ab Baars who could change between edgy and sublime on a dime's turn. Being the "instant composers" they were, ICPO not only made music instantaneously, but with joyous process; cellist Tristan Honsinger conducted with everything from vocal growls to his entire body." -Feast Of Music
Zeal Jazz & Cabaret News & Reviews (link): "At heart, a sense of humor with a band of improvisational renegades playing classic avant music that challenges the notion of modern jazz."
previously: december 2014
To reserve tickets for the Rotterdam ICP show 18 December at Pro Rege, please email canon@xs4all.nl. Tickets will also be available at the door, more information available here.
previously: october/november 2014 First some upcoming tour dates:
09 Oct 2014 Amsterdam, BIMhuis (Han Bennink/Evan Parker)
10 Oct 2014 Amsterdam, BIMhuis (ICP with Evan Parker)
01 Nov 2014 Tampere (FI), Tampere Jazz Happening (ICP with Uri Caine)
and then....
trip report: japan 2014!
Last month's Japan tour was a grueling blast. This was our first time in Japan since we've been actively active on social media, and it was amazing to see how quickly the fans there got involved in posting photos and videos. You can check our FB timeline for much more (just remember to keep scrolling down until you get to September 1), but here are just a few of our favorites:
After Han, Mary, Ab and Tristan kicked things off at SuperDeluxe Tokyo with some local improvisors, the next afternoon found Han in duo with Aki Takase at Shinjuku Pit Inn (photo Kazue Yokoi)...
and then a couple of hours later playing a fun mini-set with Nipper the RCA dog at Disk Union Tokyo (video Kei Fujiwara):
The rest of the band arrived the next day and played their first full show together at Airegin Yokohama (photo Minol Umemoto):
Then Buddy's in Ekota and two nights at SuperDeluxe Tokyo, during which this moment of late-night revelry was captured by (well, at least "engineered by": the sadly-unnamed waitress is the photographer) surprise tour documenter Kei Fujiwara:
Then the Tokyo Jazz Festival! Saturday night at the Cotton Club (photo Kei Fujiwara):
and the next day outdoors in The Plaza (photo Yuko Yabe):
but this is only a small part of the story. We're still collecting great photos from Japanese fans and trying to get them on FB. And then after all of this fantastic fun, the band went to Ruvo di Puglia for the Talos Festival. Stay tuned for our next newsletter for a full report!
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earlier: august/sept 2014
Downbeat magazine's 62nd annual Critics Poll has hit the stands, congrats to both the band as a whole (#11 Big Band), and Han (making both the Drums and Percussion lists) Michael (Clarinet and Rising Star Clarinet), Ab (Clarinet), and Mary (Violin and Rising Star Violin)...here's the full issue online.
A new CD will be released in late August, entitled East Of The Sun (ICP051) and featuring compositions from Maurice Horsthuis, Ab Baars, Michael Moore, Tristan Honsinger, Count Basie, Sean Bergin and more. Here's a sneak preview.
Lastly, after a brief break there are quite a few late summer dates forthcoming:
22 Aug 2014 Amsterdam, Concertgebouw (Han Bennink, Reinier Bass, Ben van Gelder)
22 Aug 2014 Amsterdam, Felix Meritis, Shaffyzaal (Wilbert de Joode, Michael Moore, Michael Vatcher, Wolter Wierbos)
27 Aug 2014 Heiloo, Ter Coulsterkerk (Guus Janssen on organ with Han Bennink)
29 Aug 2014 Tokyo, Super Deluxe (improv with ICP and friends)
30 Aug 2014 Tokyo, Pit Inn (Han Bennink and Aki Takase)
01 Sep 2014 Yokohama, Airegin (ICP Orchestra)
02 Sep 2014 Ekota, Buddy's Jazz Club (ICP Orchestra)
03 Sep 2014 Tokyo, Super Deluxe (ICP Orchestra with Aki Takase)
04 Sep 2014 Tokyo, Super Deluxe (ICP Orchestra)
06 Sep 2014 Tokyo, Tokyo Jazz Festival: Cotton Club (ICP Orchestra)
07 Sep 2014 Tokyo, Tokyo Jazz Festival: Plaza (ICP Orchestra)
08 Sep 2014 Tokyo, Disk Union in-store performance (ICP Orchestra)
earlier: july 2014
04 Jul 2014 Berlin, Germany, ExRotaprint Kantine (Tobias Delius 4tet)
05 Jul 2014 Berlin, Germany, ExRotaprint Kantine (Tobias Delius 4tet)
06 Jul 2014 Berlin, Germany, ExRotaprint Kantine (Tobias Delius 4tet)
07 Jul 2014 Amsterdam, Pintohuis (1st set Wolter Wierbos solo, 2nd set Mary Oliver + Wilbert de Joode + Jasper Stadhouders)
earlier: june 2014
05 June 2014, Baden, Switzerland, Kulak (ICP Trio: Bennink, Glerum, Moore)
In other news, the July 2014 issue of Downbeat magazine is celebrating their 80th anniversary with a feature on "The 80 Coolest Things In Jazz Today", and we're happy to say that our own Han and also ICP itself are #56 and #60 respectively. Take a look:
earlier: may 2014
ICP Orchestra is performing on Thursday May 22nd in Amsterdam at Café Frankendael immediately after the screening of
"Misha Enzovoort" (see PDF invitation here).
earlier: march 2014 ICP has some European concert dates coming up in March 2014:
22 March 2014 Geneva, Switzerland, AMR Jazz Festival
28 March 2014 Amsterdam, Netherlands, BIMHuis (as part of Carte Blanche Ethan Iverson)
29 March 2014, Rijkesvorsel, Belgium, De Singer (preview here)
earlier: january 2014 Here's a nice review of Mary and Han's January 2014 performance in Cleveland, USA. And Bas Andriessen made a nice little item about Misha back in September 2010, it's worth a re-visit.
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usa tour publicity: braithwaite & katz communications, info@bkmusicpr.com
supported by: nederlands fonds voor podiumkunsten +, the hague
