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MUSICIANS
| "As much as any group anywhere, ICP encompasses a full range of
modern musics: Ellington and Monk, Kurt Weill and European dance band music
of a lost age, lacy Webern – y chamber music, South African kwela, free
improvisation, conducted improvisation, interactive games, counterpoint
and simultaneity, catchy melodies, pastel harmonies, order and built –
in chaos.
Post modern composers like to jump cut from one style to another: think Zorn. ICP’s music drifts from one locus to another like the action in a dream, where the guiding intelligence may thwart rational progress. Some compositions feature glaring wrong notes or brazenly dumb ideas; no piece exists in a definitive state. Players have the option of making some will fully idiotic melody sound better or even worse. From one performance to the next, a piece may sound radically different." ICP’s mix is perplexing in the best sense: the music doesn’t give up its secrets on first hearing, or second, or third. It keeps you coming back. This is jazz / improvised music at its most deft and sophisticated. The musicians treat it with the reverence usually reserved for a chewed – up slipper." From New Dutch Swing by Kevin Whitehead (Billboard Books, 1998) Misha Mengelberg (piano, composer): was a co-founder of the Instant Composers Pool, the nonprofit collective of Dutch composer-improvisers-instrumentalists, with Han Bennink and Willem Breuker in 1967. He has performed in duo with Han Bennink for more than 30 years and led the ICP Orchestra for more than 20. His other credits include performing and recording with Eric Dolphy, John Tchicai, Derek Bailey, Steve Lacy, Peter Brotzman, and many others. Thomas Heberer (trumpet): has performed and recorded with the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, the European Jazz Ensemble, and the Pata Orchestra. Wolter Wierbos (trombone): has performed and recorded with the Gerry Hemingway Quintet, Peter van Bergen’s LOOS, Theo Leovendie Quintet, and the J.C. Tans Orchestra. He has recorded two solo albums. Ab Baars (reeds): has recorded and performed with Guus Jansen, Maarten Altena, Loek Dikker, and Orkest de Volharding. He has also recorded as leader of a trio and as an unaccompanied soloist. Michael Moore (reeds): is the leader of Available Jelly and has been a member of the Gerry Hemingway Quintet, Clusone 3, and Maarten Altena ensembles. Ernst Glerum (bass): has played and recorded with Amsterdam String Trio, Guus Jansen, the J.C. Tans Orchestra, and Curtis Clark. Tristan Honsinger (cello): is the leader of a string quartet that includes Ernst Glerum and the ensemble this, that, and other. He has performed and recorded with Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey, Irene Schweitzer, Sean Bergin, and other. Han Bennink (drums): is a co-founder of the ICP, long-time associate of Misha Mengelberg, and one of the most in-demand drummers in Europe. He has performed and recorded with jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins, as well as European improvisers such as Peter Brotzman, Derek Bailey, and Willem Breuker. SELECTED ICP ORCHESTRA DISCOGRAPHY
Biography courtesy of BV Haast, Amsterdam
NL.
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