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Stichting dOeK welcomes two new core members, Michael Moore and John Dikeman! Now that Cor Fuhler has moved to Australia it made sense to invite an Amsterdam based musician, or in this case musicians, to join the team. Michael Moore and John Dikeman represent different generations and methods of music making which will enrich and diversify Stichting dOeK. They are also both Americans, which is not entirely coincidental, as dOeK looks forward to taking advantage of their different cultural viewpoints.

 

Michael Moore is a true veteran of improvised music, having been a part of the Dutch and international improvised music scene since the early 1980's. His lyrical clarinet and saxophone playing draws international acclaim as well as his stellar compositional and arranging abilities. Michael was awarded one of the biggest honors in Dutch jazz: the Boy Edgar Prijs in 1986. He has also been a long standing member of ICP (Instant Composers Pool), Available Jelly, as well as the leader of numerous groups of his own which have included the Clusone Trio, The Persons, Jewels and Binoculars, Michael Moore Trio, Quartet and Quintet as well as the most recent Fragile Quartet. Michael Moore created his own label, Ramboy Records, in 1991, a label which has released 30 (+1) records to date. Michael is also an educator and currently works on the faculty at the Prins Claus Conservatorium in Groningen.

John Dikeman represents the younger generation of improvisers in the Dutch scene. Having lived in New York, Philadelphia, Cairo, Budapest, and several other locals before arriving in Holland, he had already developed his improvisational skills working with such musicians as Jack Wright, Nate Wooley, Mike Pride, Daniel Carter, Tatsuya Nakatani, etc. Since arriving in Amsterdam in 2008, John has quickly been integrated into the improvised music scene, performing with everyone from Han Bennink and Ab Baars to Terrie Ex and Andy Moor as well as all of the core members of dOeK. John has also forged a new path with projects such as Cactus Truck which represent a form of improvised music which is very far from the history of "New Dutch Swing." This year John was award the Young VIP tour which will feature his band Cactus Truck plus guests including Jon Rune Strøm, Jeb Bishop, Peter Jacquemyn, Nicolau Laféta and Dave Rempis. John has also been active as an organizer in Amsterdam curating the Tabula Rasa series at the Maarten Luther Kerk and working with the Music and Dance curators team at OT301.

dOeK Festival #10 will take place from 21 – 22 April 2012. As in other editions, the festival takes a look at what’s happening in the international impro scene, crossing genres, art forms, generations and borders. The five core members of dOeK each put together a special festival group and invite a guest ensemble. We’ve come up with all sorts of goodies for this 10th anniversary edition. There will be six concerts in Amsterdam’s Bimhuis, concerts in other cities during dOeK Festival on Tour, an interactive sound and light installation, children’s workshops and a reprise of the Amsterdam Real Book. Here’s the program so far:
 
Saturday 21 april - Bimhuis
Sun Rooms [Jason Adasiewicz vibraphone, Nate McBride double bass, Mike Reed drums] Rising stars from Chicago
WoKaLi [Wolter Wierbos trombone, Achim Kaufmann piano, Christian Lillinger drums] Amsterdam meets Berlin: three great improvisers
Boerenbond [Marie Guilleray voice, Eric Boeren cornet, Peter Evans trumpet, Tobias Delius tenor sax, Jason Adasiewicz vibraphone, Oren Marshall tuba, Guus Janssen piano, Cor Fuhler piano, Michael Vatcher percussion]
New composition from Eric Boeren: Fictional announcements for the agricultural and horticultural sector
Sunday 22 april - Bimhuis
The Now [Peter van Bergen saxes, Nicole Mitchell flute, Wilbert de Joode double bass, Hamid Drake percussion]
Two very special guests from Chicago
The Gap [Cor Fuhler piano/guitar, Tobias Delius tenor sax/clarinet, Axel Dörner trompet, Jan Roder double bass, Dale Gorfinkel vibraphone, Steve Heather drums] ‘Down Under’ compositions from Cor Fuhler
The Job [Oscar Jan Hoogland electric clavichord/guitar/ MOOG/vocals, Jochem van Tol turntables/ guitar/keyboards/ vocals, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti bass/ guitar/Fender Rhodes/vocals, Onno Govaert drums] Pop gets the impro treatment
 
And elsewhere………
Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 April
Sonic Holograms: Dale Gorfinkel design and construction. With special interactive workshops for the whole family.

Saturday 21 april
dOeK Festival on Tour Leiden The Now in De Burcht

Sunday 22 april - Zaal 100, OT301, Kwikfiets
Amsterdam Real Book A trip by bike or bus through 40 years of impro in Amsterdam

dOeK Festival on Tour Zaandam  Sun Rooms in Serah Artisan
 

Last year was a busy and successful one for dOeK. Here some highlights:
 

Ambush Party has just been selected for Jazzism's Top 2011 by Marie-Claire Melzer as concert of the year for their performance at the Dutch Jazz & World Meeting! "Spannend, subtiel en vrissend." (Exciting, subtle and refreshing) She also listed the bands Polar Bear and Rembrandt Frerichs as highlights of the year.

Jazzism

 

Want to know more about the musicians, the composers or the venues? Visit the special Real Book website. Updates every day!

For sale at the door at all concerts:  Amsterdam Real Book t-shirts - thanks to Arnold de Boer, design, and Loenatix Drukkerij -  and copies of the first NL Real Book, a project of MCN and Rhythm Changes

Amsterdam Real Book

A fresh look at improvised music

The first edition of the Amsterdam Real Book will take place between 22 and 27 November in Amsterdam and Zaandam. Over a period of 5 days, with concerts at 5 venues - Zaal 100, MLK, OT, MuzyQ and Serah Artisan – 14 top musicians will take a fresh look at 40 years of improvised music in Amsterdam.

22    Zaal 100                     De Wittenstraat 100  8 pm  € 6,-
23    Maarten Lutherkerk  Dintelstraat 134        8 pm  free
24    OT301                        Overtoom, 301          9 pm  € 6,-
25    MuzyQ                       Atlantisplein 1           9 pm  € 6,-
27    Serah Artisan            Dam 2, Zaandam      4 pm  donation

Led by Oscar Jan Hoogland and Michael Moore, and with a guest role for cellist Tristan Honsinger, the Amsterdam Real Book brings together established Amsterdam based improvisers and a new generation of musicians. Performing in various constellations, they will investigate the relationship between composition and improvisation using compositions that have formed the history and language of ‘compimpro’ music in Amsterdam over the last thirty years. Oscar Jan and Michael have compiled a list of compositions from which the final choice of repertoire will be made, by such composers as Ab Baars, Sean Bergin, Eric Boeren, Willem Breuker, Joost Buis, Jack Bulterman, Pierre Courbois, Leo Cuypers, Ernst Glerum, Ig Henneman, Tristan Honsinger, Theo Loevendie, Misha Mengelberg, Michael Moore, Roger van Otterloo and Paul Termos. Some of the compositions are drawn from the first edition of the NL Real Book.

The Amsterdam Real Book band is drawn from two Amsterdam scenes, the first a new young scene that has sprung up over the last five years, very international in make-up and largely focused on completely free improvisation - Yedo Gibson (BR) reeds; John Dikeman (VS), Natalio Sued (AR) tenor sax;  Oscar Jan Hoogland (NL), Andrea Taeggi (IT) piano;  Jasper Stadhouders (NL), Mikael Szafirowski (FI) guitar; Harald Austbø (NO/NL) cello; Onno Govaert (NL), Gerri Jäger (AT) drums. The second scene comprises well-established Amsterdam improvisers with their rich tradition of merging composition and free improvisation - Eric Boeren cornet;  Michael Moore clarinet, alto saxophone; Wolter Wierbos trombone; Tristan Honsinger cello.

Zaal 100 plays host to the first day of the Amsterdam Real Book. Tristan Honsinger will lead a 12 member ensemble comprising Andrea, Eric, Gerri, Jasper, John, Michael, Mikael, Natalio, Onno, Oscar Jan, Wolter and Yedo. After rehearsing all day the first Real Book performance will take place from 8 - 9 pm, followed by the usual Tuesday night Jazzcafé, this time with Ig Henneman, Fred van Duijnhoven and Oscar Jan Hoogland.

On Wednesday 23rd the Real Book moves to the Maarten Lutherkerk in Amsterdam Zuid. Oscar Jan will choose the repertoire, for the rest the group will work without a leader. Participating musicians: Andrea, Jasper, John, Mikael, Onno, Oscar Jan, Wolter and Yedo.

At OT301 on the following evening the Real Book musicians - Andrea, Eric, Gerri, Jasper, John, Mikael, Onno, Oscar Jan, Wolter and Yedo - will share the bill with Victoire, a new chamber-rock ensemble from New York featuring Missy Mazzoli. Fun!

Friday night sees the action move to MuzyQ. Michael Moore will lead the group, which will work on Available Jelly repertoire.  The merry band comprises Andrea, Eric, Harald, Jasper, John, Mikael, Natalio, Onno, Oscar Jan, Wolter and Yedo.

After a day's R & R, the Amsterdam Real Book heads north to Zaandam and the beautiful Serah Artisan for a Sunday afternoon concert featuring Andrea, Eric, Harald, John, Michael, Mikael, Onno, Oscar Jan and Yedo.

Tickets for sale at the participating venues. Visitor to three concerts or more receive an Amsterdam Real Book T-shirt or a copy of the NL Real Book for free.

Thanks to the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst for supporting Amsterdam Real Book.  

Eric Boeren (cornet) will be guesting with The Melancholy Babes (Jeff Henderson, alto sax; Tom Callwood, bass; Anthony Donaldson, drums) on their New Zealand tour in October and November 2011. The tour will culminate with concerts at the iiii Festival for Adventurous Music in Wellington.

Corkestra has released its 2nd CD, Gas Station Sessions, ten tracks from Cor Fuhler recorded at The Gas Station Recording Studio in Toronto (Canada).

The Ambush Party is now heading off to South America for an Argentian tour!

October 18, Ciclo Jazzologia del Centro Cultural, San Martin

October 21, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti

November 2, Festival de jazz de Buenos Aires, Capilla Recoleta

November 3, Festival de jazz de Buenos Aires, Oscar Jan Hoogland with festival musicians

EKE launches its debut CD - EKE Live at the Bimhuis - at the Bimhuis tonight, 13 May, during a double concert with Sol12. Hear EKE in all its furious glory and buy a copy of the fabulous CD!

Impossible to predict, and impossible to resist

Amsterdam-based outfit The Ambush Party play improvised music that is impossible to predict, and impossible to resist. Oscar Jan Hoogland’s prepared piano lines are brilliant and unhinged; who knew a milk frother could be used to make a piano rumble with such emotion? The band sketch out the merest of musical lines, and than duck, jab and weave their way around them, little punches of percussion and sudden stabs of cymbals from Marcos Baggiani circling and irritating the piano, while Harald Austbø drags groans and moans from his cello and himself, before bursting into a voice that could rouse Wagner from a slumber. Meanwhile tenor saxophonist Natalio Sued wears the pained expression, and has the desultory brassy honks and howls of a man who believes he is the only sane one in the asylum. For every moment of chaos, though, there is clockwork efficiency beneath the melee that keeps the whole, swaggering bandwagon whirling onwards and upwards into unified bursts of sound that break like a storm. There is rigorous, meticulous magic at work here. This is music as theatre, and as exciting, engaging and humorous a band as you are likely to see. Seek them out, and leave any preconceived notions at the door because they will be of no use to you.

Review 12 Points Festival performance: Laurence Mackin, Irish Times, May 5 2011

 

Als een wervelwind gaan ze van start, saxofonist Yedo Gibson, slagwerker Gerri Jäger en Oscar Jan Hoogland op de elektrische clavichord. Als een wielerploeg die na achterstand door materiaalpech de rest van het peloton weer moet inhalen. Om vervolgens, als dat gelukt is, ietsjes gas terug te nemen en een tactiek uit te stippelen.

EKE noemen ze zich, wat je uitspreekt als "iek". Je zou het een jazztrio kunnen noemen, maar alleen bij gebrek aan een beter etiket. Hoogland doet van alles op zijn clavichord, behalve "clavichord spelen". Hij produceert vooral "drones" en geruis. Gerri Jäger, bij menigeen bekend als de helft van het duo knalpot, bespeelt zijn slagwerk als een melodie-instrument. En Gibson blaast schorre knorren. Vaak zo hard en abrupt, dat de snaren van de klavecimbel mee beginnen te trillen waar Hoogland dan weer gretig gebruik van maakt.
Lees verder in Gonzo Circus

EKE kicks off their tour with a performance at Utrecht's wonderful Rumor Festival on Thursday 24 March 2011. They will then drive like madmen around Europe, with ports of call in Slovenia, Austria, Italy and Germany.

"Cornetist Eric Boeren leads his Dutch quartet with a crisp, compact and expressive sound through a program that toggles between inventive bop, free-bop and avant expressionism on this live date recorded in 2004." Read more about Eric Boeren 4-tet on JazzReview.com

EKE's first CD - EKE, Live at the BIM - has just been released on the Red Note label. Four of the five tracks are live recordings from dOeK Festival #7 in 2008, while the fifth track was recorded live in Cologne's Loft. Available at Konkurrent
EKE is Oscar Jan Hoogland electric clavichord, Yedo Gibson tenor sax, soprano sax and E flat clarinet, Gerri Jäger, drums.
You can hear them during Pageturner #22, a night of zap performance art in Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, Amsterdam, on Thursday January 20.

The Ambush Party - Natalio Sued tenor sax, Oscar Jan Hoogland piano, Harald Austbø cello, Marcos Baggiani drums - launched its debut CD at dOeK Festival #9 in December 2010.
The CD features 12 uncut improvisations and is released by De Platenbakkerij, Oscar Jan Hoogland's own label. Available via Subdist

Our yearly dOeK Festival took place in the wonderful Bimhuis in Amsterdam. Festured ensembles were Available Jelly, The Ambush Party, Wollo's World, The Gap and The Thing.
Read a review of the festival in All About Jazz
Programme details on festival page dOek festival #9.


 

Hear two dOeK groups during the DJWM:
Corkestra Melkweg The Max Thursday 2 December 20:30 - 21:15 The Ambush Party Melkweg Theaterzaal Friday 3 December 2010  23:00 - 23:45
This three day event is the opportunity for Dutch jazz and world music groups to present themselves to more than150 representatives of venues, agencies, festivals and media via showcases, an information market, trade dinners and so on.
The general public is also welcome to the showcases in the Melkweg. For more information Muziek Centrum Nederland

This new dOeK website was launched on 12 November 2010. You'll notice that not all the pages are ready. We're working on it. And we'd be grateful if you could help us out with that - if you spot a mistake or an omission, let us know at

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We'll be adding new items regularly, so come back and visit the site again soon.