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 Reviews / Quotes
Available Jelly
“Trombonist Wolter Wierbos’s wicked mute work deserves special mention, as does percussionist Michael Vatcher, who can swing like mad, insert homemade instruments with precision and delicacy, and thrash the hell out of everything.”
The Wire
“Ironic, certainly, but wonderfully played irony. Reedsman and composer Michael Moore and trompetist Eric Boeren shone as always. Wolter Weirbos, like Boeren, used mutes expressively. This could serve as a metaphore for Available Jelly as a whole: sometimes muted and restrained, sometimes wildly beautiful.”
“The music is direct, attractive and accessible....Available Jelly moves between blues numbers, Ellington tunes, folk melodies and Moore’s compositional interest in the centuries-old technique of counterpoint. It’s simply great jazz played with immaculate precision and no small amount of passion.”
The Georgia Straight
"The band gives the impression that improvising is as normal and easy as breathing..."
NRC Handelsblad
“No matter how eclectic Available Jelly is, it is the tremendous flexibility and uninhibitedness which informs the musicians’ musical language that is most important.”
Trouw
“Exciting, swirling, kaleidoscopic jazz played with infectious pleasure.....”
Noord hollands Dagblad
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