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Les Trois Jours 2005
fifteen years of adventure in music!
Wednesday 11 through Friday 13 May 2005
Grand Theatre Groningen
Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 May 20.30 hrs.
admission 14, / 12,50 / 10,
Friday 13 May 22.00 hrs. admission 10,
Go-as-you-please ticket 29,
reservations +31 (0)50 314 05 50 or kassa@grand-theatre.nl
festival website www.grandtheatre.nl/troisjours
Wednesday 11 May
Sylvain Kassap Quartet (F)
Louis Sclavis / Vincent Courtois (F)
Thursday 12 May
Cousin X feat. Andy Laster & Bart Maris (NL/US/B)
Das Böse Ding (G)
Friday 13 May
Forss (Sv)
Machinedrum (US)
plus DJ Foefur; VJ Smon (previously Zafari)
and Hallucination (NL)
Fifteen years of adventure in music. Les Trois Jours 2005 looks back, looks around and is all ears.
The opening night on Wednesday 11 May is devoted to French music, with two prominent French clarinettists. Centre stage are Louis Sclavis - in a duo with cellist Vincent Courtois - and the new Sylvain Kassap Quartet. That the clarinet has become one of the major instruments in French jazz is largely
due to these two gentlemen. Louis Sclavis was the booster engine for modern jazz in France and made a deep impression in previous editions of Les Trois Jours in his duo with cellist Ernst Reijseger (1992), Double Trio (1993), Trio Sclavis/Texier/Romano (1995) and the Sclavis New Trio (1999). Sylvain
Kassap featured his quartet compositions in 1994 and returned with Trio Cake in 1999.
On the second night, Thursday 12 May, jazz does a triple jump through punk/rock/funk/hiphop and associated music. Band leader and bassist Floris Vermeulen of the Groningen band Cousin X has invited two special guests: New York saxophonist Andy Laster and Belgian trumpeter Bart Maris. With this
extra-strong wind section Vermeulen's love for the music of Charles Mingus will be given free rein. After this: Das Böse Ding. A smashing vehicle for German saxophonist Jan Klare, ripping through musical history with his heavy quartet without faltering.
The Three Days' finale has been showcasing new electronic music ever since 1999. Some Trois Jour highlights were Jungle Horns 'n' Bass (1999), The Necks, Toshinori Kondo & Grazzhoppa (2000), The Tied & Tickled Trio, DJ Netick (2001), EriK M and Pole (2002), Burnt Friedman/Jaki Liebezeit (2003),
Thomas Fehlmann and Thomas Brinkmann (2004). The 2005 edition presents two electronically charged acts in their Dutch premiere: Forss, a duo from Stockholm, and Machinedrum from Miami. Both acts use laptops and produce quirky breakbeats with springy rhythms and sample collages on top. The combination of Sweden and Florida will certainly benefit the dance minded among the audience.
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Wednesday 11 May
Sylvain Kassap Quartet (F)
Sylvain Kassap - clarinets
Didier Petit - cello
Hélène Labarrièrre - double bass
Edward Perraud - drums
Sylvain Kassap makes original and sensitive music. The French clarinettist will present his new quartet. He put his first quartet on the rails in 1994 and visited Les Trois Jours in the same year. The beautiful music, sometimes vaguely reminiscent of Weather Report (Quixote, on the Evidence label) has evolved in the course of the years. The Kassap Quartet is now in its third incarnation. The music has grown more powerful, but at the same time also more sensitive. The bassist is now Hélène Labarrière, who offers a robust swing. Cellist Didier Petit strengthens the melodic lines. And young Edward Perraud drums in the energetic style of Han Bennink and Paul Lovens. And Sylvain Kassap himself? He takes up where Eric Dolphy suddenly left off.
Louis Sclavis / Vincent Courtois (F)
Louis Sclavis - clarinets, soprano sax
Vincent Courtois - cello
Louis Sclavis is still one of the greatest clarinettists in modern jazz. Sclavis (1953) plays with an unusual clarity, precision and expression. He has been at the summit of the French jazz scene for over twenty years now. With his current band Napoli's Walls he has been a great success at all major European festivals. But Sclavis also has a preference for playing duos with cellists, offering him the opportunity to expose his unbridled musical fantasy. In Groningen (11 May) and Amsterdam (12 May) the talented French cellist Vincent Courtois (1961) will be his sparring partner. On 14 May in Utrecht he will meet Ernst Reijseger, with whom he played Les Trois Jours 1992 as a duo.
Thursday 12 May
Cousin X feat. Andy Laster & Bart Maris (NL/US/B)
Andy Laster - alto sax, baritone sax
Janfie van Strien - soprano sax, tenor sax
Bart Maris - trumpet
Joop van der Linden - trombone
Hendrik Jan Vermeulen - guitar
Floris Vermeulen - bass guitar
Harry Arling - drums
"Buckshot LeFonque now has a Groningen nephew: Cousin X" wrote the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant in 1997 about their debut CD Pay The Price. In Cousin X band leader and bassist Floris Vermeulen offers his own slant on a mixture of jazz, hiphop, funk and rock. For this festive edition of Les Trois Jours the band features two special guests: New York saxophonist Andy Laster (Hydra with Herb Robertson, Eric Friedlander's Topaz, Matt Darriau's Ballin' the Jack) and Belgian trumpeter Bart Maris (Electric Barbarian, X legged Sally). With Janfie van Strien and Joop van der Linden, who sound tighter than ever after their years of experience with De Jongens Driest and the Amsterdam Klezmerband Cousin X has a four piece wind section which really kicks ass.
Das Böse Ding (G)
Jan Klare - alto sax, soprano sax
Martin Scholz - keyboards, trumpet
Hartmut Kracht - double bass, bass guitar
Wolfgang Ekholt - drums
Jan Klare (1961) hails from Münster and studied saxophone at the Amsterdam conservatory. He made a name for himself in a project with the Palinckx brothers and Han Buhrs in Duell D/NL, a musical recreation of the famous 1974 Soccer World Championship Final, and recently in the chamber opera Ich
war die Krawatte von Prinz Claus. In Germany he is attracting attention with Toytones, Autofab and Das Böse Ding, a highly adventurous jazz/punk/rock/impro band. Das Böse Ding features powerhouse Jan Klare (sax) plus Martin Scholz (organ), Hartmut Kracht (double bass and bass guitar) and Wolfgang Ekholt (drums). They are well versed in various classics, are a tightly knit unit, and don't shy from homages to Iggy Pop or Stravinsky with ripping sax solos. The Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad wrote: "Das Böse Ding is the grand total of what European jazz can be at its best: energetic, titillating and exciting."
Friday 13 May
Machinedrum (US)
Travis Stewart - electronics
Les Trois Jours has another first! Ever since Machinedrum's Now You Know was released on the American m3rck label in 2001 things have been going well for young Travis Stewart. He made an extensive independent dance club tour of the US, and now visits the Netherlands for an exclusive performance at the Les Trois Jours festival. Summer 2004 saw Machinedrum's fourth album, Bidnezz, also released by m3rck Records from Miami. The craftily structured compositions rest on on-the-nose hiphop beats with a downtempo organic feel. Breakbeats with electronic experiments and brilliant chopped up vocals. Machinedrum's instrumental electronic hip hop is relentlessly heavy and healthy for both body and soul.
Forss (SV)
Eric Wahlforss - electronics
Carl Borg - electronics
Another first. Very danceable Swedish broken beat electro infected with soul and jazz. Eric Wahlforss and Carl Borg, a.k.a. Forss, operate as a duo from Stockholm. Its central figure, Eric Wahlforss, has connections with the active Berlin music scene. His latest album, Soulhack, was released by Sonar
Kollektiv from Berlin, which also issues Jazzanova. When growing up Wahlforss was fed on classical music and attempted to play the clarinet. After some "intermediate" equipment he finally decided on the
laptop. He hooked on to drum 'n' bass experiments, which evolved into his current cut-and-paste collages, in which hectic samples alternate with soulful swing and jazzy atmospheres. The grand total loosely sounds like a Scandinavian DJ Shadow. No wonder the Soulhack album is a Geheimtip for aficionados of the genre. Forss: Eric Wahlforss and Carl Borg make their Dutch debut, and will definitely bring the house down.
plus DJ Foefur (NL) VJ Smon (previously Zafari) and Hallucination
Les Trois Jours 2005 is produced by Grand Theatre Groningen.
Festival programming: Marcel Roelofs, Groningen muziektekoop@wxs.nl
Les Trois Jours 2005: fifteen years of adventure in music
Also in:
Bimhuis Amsterdam
Piet Heinkade 3
Admission: 14, / 12, (reductions)
Reservations +31 (0)20 788 21 88
www.bimhuis.nl
Thursday 12 May 21.00 hrs Louis Sclavis / Vincent Courtois
Rumor festival Utrecht
Various stages
Admission 11, / 9, (reductions)
Reservations +31 (0)30 238 20 80
www.rumor.nl
Saturday 14 May from 20.30 hrs., featuring:
22.30u Louis Sclavis / Ernst Reijseger RASA Pauwstraat 13 a
23.30u Forss SJU Jazzpodium Varkenmarkt 2
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