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The internationally acknowledged Dutch jazz saxophonist Tineke Postma played at Earshot Jazz Art of Jazz series at SAM last night. She played a wonderful set and will play again on Saturday opening for Grace Kelly at the Kirkland Performance Center. She is in the US for a series of concerts throughout the country, including Portland, Washington DC, and New York City.

The Earshot Jazz Spring Series brought he ICPO live on Stage at the Seattle Art Museum on April 3rd to an almost full house. One of the most wonderful performances I can remember seeing in a long time. I always really enjoy seeing Han Bennink perform but the whole ensemble this time was memorable.

“Bit-by-bit zany and artistically and technically brilliant, the ICP Orchestra is likely the globe’s most startling and ear-stretching jazz ensembles. This lineup of the world’s greatest collaborative improvisers was minus it’s founding pianist Misha Mengelberg, now in his late seventies.

Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink, along with Willem Breuker, formed the group in Amsterdam in 1967, in the full throes of the free-jazz movement. The ICP Orchestra was then, and remains now, a marvel of instant composition driven by the spontaneity and idiosyncrasy of its members. In that lineup of maverick contributors: trombonist Wolter Wierbos, bassist Ernst Glerum, clarinetist and saxophonist Ab Baars, tenor saxophonist Tobias Delius, multi-reeds hornman Michael Moore, trumpeter Thomas Heberer, violist Mary Oliver, and cellist Tristan Honsinger.” – Peter Monaghan Read more on Earshot Jazz

 

The Earshot Jazz Festival started a couple of days ago and I am already falling behind. I will attempt to catch up over the next few days and provide pictures from as many performances as I can. Tonight I will begin here with the incomparable Eric Vloeimans and his group Gatecrash. they put on an amazing and mesmerizing performance at The Seattle Art Museum.

The stellar Dutch trumpeter’s Gatecrash chain-links lazy lounge, hard-core beats, spaced-out moods, and Zappaesque meters, with soundscapist Jeroen van Vliet, Gulli Gudmundsson on bass and effects, and emerging drum star Jasper van Hulten. For more information on the Earshot Jazz Festival Schedule check out their website.

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Playing at the Asian Art Museum Friday night was the very cool group of  Amsterdam’s top improvisers the Ab Baars Trio, playing with Chicago’s MacArthur-winning sax titan Ken Vandermark.

This show was one  in the series of concerts that Earshot Jazz Presents in its annual Spring Series. There are four unique concert events in April featuring many of the U.S. and Northern Europe’s most gifted and adventurous musicians.

Here are some individual shots of the group.

Ken Vandermark, with Ab Baars

Martin van Duynhoven on percussion.

Wilbert De Joode on bass.

Ken Vandermark and Ab Baars on sax

Photograph by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with an unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism among Seattle wedding photographers.

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Ab Baars at the Asian Art Museum Friday night with Amsterdam’s top improvisers in the Ab Baars Trio, playing with Chicago’s MacArthur-winning sax titan Ken Vandermark.
More to come.

Photograph by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with an unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism among Seattle wedding photographers.

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