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Michael Moore
Jorrit Dijkstra
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Michael Moore
Moore was born and raised in Eureka, California, the son of a semi-professional musician. He studied music at Humboldt State and in 1977 graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Jaki Byard and Gunther Schuller, and was a classmate of Marty Ehrlich's. Moore played in a wide variety of musical contexts - especially those in support of theatre and dance groups. By 1982 he was a regular member of Misha Mengelberg's Instant Composers Pool and had relocated to Amsterdam. He remains active in ICP to this day. He also was member of Georg Gräwes Grubenklang Orchester.
Aside from ICP, Moore is perhaps best known as one-third of the Clusone 3 (aka Trio Clusone and Clusone Trio), along with cellist Ernst Reijseger and drummer Han Bennink. Originally meant only to play a single date at a festival in Clusone, Italy, the trio toured irregularly for several years and recorded six CDs, including one of freely-interpreted Irving Berlin compositions.
Moore's first recording as a leader was in 1992 but it was with 1994's Chicoutimi that he began to earn serious recognition as a composer. The drummerless trio on this CD (Fred Hersch, piano, and Mark Helias, bass) was inspired by the duo recordings of Lee Konitz and Gil Evans, and recalls in places the legendary Jimmy Giuffre trios of the early 1960s.
Moore continues to play in a very wide variety of musical contexts. Another group in which he plays - Jewels and Binoculars, a collective trio with bassist Lindsey Horner and drummer Michael Vatcher - is devoted to interpretations of Bob Dylan songs.[1][2]
In 1986, Moore won the VPRO/Boy Edgar Award, regarded as the most prestigious jazz award in the Netherlands. In 1991, he founded Ramboy records to document his music. The label had 22 releases as of August 2006.
Moore started his Jazz Quintet in 2005. In this quintet, Moore pairs himself with accomplished Dutch players: trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, pianist Marc van Roon, bassist Paul Berner, and drummer Owen Hart, Jr. In October 2005, the Quintet recorded the album Osiris.
In 2013 he has performed with InstanPool, a group of international musicians making improved music, and occasionally playing a composition. InstanPool is Michael Moore & Mark Alban Lotz – winds, Korhan Erel & Robert van Heumen – laptops, Sevket Akinci & Giray Güral - guitars, electronics. Some members are also in Islak_Köpek
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The music of saxophonist and composer Jorrit Dijkstra draws from the jazz tradition in spirit and sound, but has crossed stylistic and cultural borders in order to express a strong, evolving personal vision. Dijkstra spent his formative years in Amsterdam’s vibrant improvisation community, playing jazz, free improvisation, contemporary opera, and African, Celtic and Balkan music. Since moving to the United States in 2002, Dijkstra has deepened his affinity with the experimental forces of American music, while staying in touch with his Dutch musical roots.
Dijkstra’s current projects include his Flatlands Collective, with leading Chicago improvisers, and an electro-acoustic duo with New York drummer/composer John Hollenbeck. In his solo saxophone project, he incorporates an array of electronic effect devices to process his saxophone improvisations live on stage. Dijkstra’s use of analog electronics, including the Lyricon, a vintage electronic wind instrument from the seventies, extends his already flexible saxophone style into an idiosyncratic mix of cool jazz, free improvisation, and electronic minimalism.
Dijkstra has released eight of his own CDs, and has performed at North Sea Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Rome’s Festival Controindicazioni, New York City’s Tonic, the Chicago Cultural Center, ICA Boston, BIMhuis Amsterdam, and Stadtgarten Cologne.
His work has won him a Fulbright grant, a prestigious Podium Prize for jazz musicians in the Netherlands, and composition commissions for ensembles and theatre companies around the world.
“He takes his audiences on a quirky, energetic, captivating journey through a world of sound and emotion…Jorrit Dijkstra has already distinguished himself as a man to watch. A highly accomplished musician, he is a cerebral improviser who nevertheless plays with warmth and rhythmic excitement.”–Kevin Lowenthal, The Boston Globe
M.M., New England Conservatory. Additional studies at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Studies with Misha Mengelberg, Steve Coleman, Steve Lacy, and Lee Hyla. Also faculty of University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and the Rivers School Conservatory. Former faculty of Arnhem Conservatory, Netherlands. Recordings on Clean Feed, Skycap, Evil Rabbit, Trytone, Geestgronden, Songlines, BVHaast, and Disckus.
Related links:
www.jorritdijkstra.com
Jorrit Dijkstra on MySpace
Lavay Smith
to Amsterdam legends
Jorrit Dijkstra and Frankie Douglas.
Dancers, Speakers, and Comedians.
more on Michael~
Michael Moore
Moore was born and raised in Eureka, California, the son of a semi-professional musician. He studied music at Humboldt State and in 1977 graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Jaki Byard and Gunther Schuller, and was a classmate of Marty Ehrlich's. Moore played in a wide variety of musical contexts - especially those in support of theatre and dance groups. By 1982 he was a regular member of Misha Mengelberg's Instant Composers Pool and had relocated to Amsterdam. He remains active in ICP to this day. He also was member of Georg Gräwes Grubenklang Orchester.
Aside from ICP, Moore is perhaps best known as one-third of the Clusone 3 (aka Trio Clusone and Clusone Trio), along with cellist Ernst Reijseger and drummer Han Bennink. Originally meant only to play a single date at a festival in Clusone, Italy, the trio toured irregularly for several years and recorded six CDs, including one of freely-interpreted Irving Berlin compositions.
Moore's first recording as a leader was in 1992 but it was with 1994's Chicoutimi that he began to earn serious recognition as a composer. The drummerless trio on this CD (Fred Hersch, piano, and Mark Helias, bass) was inspired by the duo recordings of Lee Konitz and Gil Evans, and recalls in places the legendary Jimmy Giuffre trios of the early 1960s.
Moore continues to play in a very wide variety of musical contexts. Another group in which he plays - Jewels and Binoculars, a collective trio with bassist Lindsey Horner and drummer Michael Vatcher - is devoted to interpretations of Bob Dylan songs.[1][2]
In 1986, Moore won the VPRO/Boy Edgar Award, regarded as the most prestigious jazz award in the Netherlands. In 1991, he founded Ramboy records to document his music. The label had 22 releases as of August 2006.
Moore started his Jazz Quintet in 2005. In this quintet, Moore pairs himself with accomplished Dutch players: trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, pianist Marc van Roon, bassist Paul Berner, and drummer Owen Hart, Jr. In October 2005, the Quintet recorded the album Osiris.
In 2013 he has performed with InstanPool, a group of international musicians making improved music, and occasionally playing a composition. InstanPool is Michael Moore & Mark Alban Lotz – winds, Korhan Erel & Robert van Heumen – laptops, Sevket Akinci & Giray Güral - guitars, electronics. Some members are also in Islak_Köpek
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More on Jorrit Dijkstra~
The music of saxophonist and composer Jorrit Dijkstra draws from the jazz tradition in spirit and sound, but has crossed stylistic and cultural borders in order to express a strong, evolving personal vision. Dijkstra spent his formative years in Amsterdam’s vibrant improvisation community, playing jazz, free improvisation, contemporary opera, and African, Celtic and Balkan music. Since moving to the United States in 2002, Dijkstra has deepened his affinity with the experimental forces of American music, while staying in touch with his Dutch musical roots.
Dijkstra’s current projects include his Flatlands Collective, with leading Chicago improvisers, and an electro-acoustic duo with New York drummer/composer John Hollenbeck. In his solo saxophone project, he incorporates an array of electronic effect devices to process his saxophone improvisations live on stage. Dijkstra’s use of analog electronics, including the Lyricon, a vintage electronic wind instrument from the seventies, extends his already flexible saxophone style into an idiosyncratic mix of cool jazz, free improvisation, and electronic minimalism.
Dijkstra has released eight of his own CDs, and has performed at North Sea Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Rome’s Festival Controindicazioni, New York City’s Tonic, the Chicago Cultural Center, ICA Boston, BIMhuis Amsterdam, and Stadtgarten Cologne.
His work has won him a Fulbright grant, a prestigious Podium Prize for jazz musicians in the Netherlands, and composition commissions for ensembles and theatre companies around the world.
“He takes his audiences on a quirky, energetic, captivating journey through a world of sound and emotion…Jorrit Dijkstra has already distinguished himself as a man to watch. A highly accomplished musician, he is a cerebral improviser who nevertheless plays with warmth and rhythmic excitement.”–Kevin Lowenthal, The Boston Globe
M.M., New England Conservatory. Additional studies at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Studies with Misha Mengelberg, Steve Coleman, Steve Lacy, and Lee Hyla. Also faculty of University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and the Rivers School Conservatory. Former faculty of Arnhem Conservatory, Netherlands. Recordings on Clean Feed, Skycap, Evil Rabbit, Trytone, Geestgronden, Songlines, BVHaast, and Disckus.
Related links:
www.jorritdijkstra.com
Jorrit Dijkstra on MySpace
