Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (The Netherlands)

Thursday, October 26, 2006 20:00     Mount Fortress     Free Admission

Misha Mengleberg, Piano
Ab Baars, Michael Moore and Tobias Delius, Saxophone/ Clarinet
Thomas Heberer, Trumpet
Wolter Wierbos, Trombone
Mary Oliver, Violin/ Viola
Tristan Honsinger, Cello
Ernst Glerum, Bass
Han Bennink, Drums

Programme:
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
Happy Go Lucky Local Caravan
Caravan

Misha Mengelberg (b. 1935)
Habanera

Herbie Nichols (1919-1963)
Change of Season

Misha Mengelberg
Rumboon

et al.

The jazz mavericks of the Instant Composers Pool bring to the stage the intense fever of composition so often hidden away in the private world of a musician's studio. That joy of spontaneous creation is in plain view for everyone in the audience to see and hear, every time they perform. This group of ten unique musicians blends a virtuosic and sometimes humorous chamber music approach to well known songs by composers such as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Hoagy Carmichael, with the unpredictable and chaotic personality wars of a free-jazz ensemble, making music with and sometimes against each other in a game-based improvisation.

"… one of the world’s most startling and ear-stretching jazz ensembles and also one of the most amusing and diverting" - Earshot Jazz Profile

Duration: approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes, with no interval