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Ab Baars Trio & Ken Vandermark
The Ab Baars Trio with Ken Vandermark!
Dutch reedist Ab Baars and his American counterpart Ken Vandermark, join forces. Beyond displays of heroic strength, this band, with bassist Wilbert de Joode and drummer Martin van Duynhoven shows open forms, varied improvisational strategies, wacky use of juxtaposition, and an unwillingness to treat jazz-or any music-as a fixed art form.
The two sets of music will be preceded by an artist's talk.
8PM Saturday, April 4th 2009
At the Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., Portland, OR
$12 general/$10 students & members
Ab Baars Trio:
Ab Baars (Tenor Sax, Clarinet, Shakuhachi)
Wilbert De Joode (Double Bass)
Martin Van Duynhoven(Drums)
Ken Vandermark (TenorSax, Clarinet)
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
Ab Baars has been a member of Misha Mengelberg's and Han Bennink's Instant Composers Pool for more than a quarter of a century. While his own trio with bassist Wilbert de Joode and drummer Martin van Duynhoven (documented on seven excellent CDs on GeestGronden and Wig) has Baars stamped all over it. Its music shows more than a few traces of ICP's influence.
Since arriving in Chicago in 1989, Ken Vandermark has been a key figure in the Windy City's new music scene, organizing and co-directing concert series, and exploring his various interests in a wide array of groups-the Vandermark 5, Steam, Caffeine, the Cinghiale duo, the DKV, FME and Steelwool Trios, Spaceways Inc. and the Territory Band, to name a few. Different as they are, these bands confirm Vandermark's commitment to the tougher side of the American saxophone tradition, as well as his fascination for non-fixed European-style improvising, ICP's idiosyncratic brand included.
The core trio of bassist Wilbert de Joode and drummer Martin van Duynhoven recently celebrated ten years together with Baars. Their chemistry is omnipresent, with de Joode's powerfully corporeal approach to the bass dovetailing nicely with van Duynhoven's crisp, precise drumming.
www.stichtingwig.com/abBaars/AbBaars.html
www.kenvandermark.com
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LocationCommunity Music Center
3350 SE Francis St
Portland, OR
United States
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