Programme

Prologue

20.30 Hr PLATFORMTHEATER

MAGGIE NICOLS/DAVID CHEVALLIER/DENIS CHAROLLES

XALAM: MATT DARRIAU/BRANDON TERZIC/MATT KILMER

22.00 Hr NOORDERZON

MANZILUNA

This year the Prologue takes place at the Platformtheater on the Groningen Boterdiep. It features an indoor parking next door, very handy. And inside there’s a cosy club atmosphere. An excellent setting for seasoned performer Maggie Nicols from England. And also a wonderful place for the exciting Middle Eastern grooves by Brooklyn’s Xalam trio.

Later that evening the Noorderzon festival, in the nearby Noorderplantsoen park, features the Sicilian group Manziluna, giving the audience a taste of what’s to come in the SummerJazzCycleTour’s Italian route.

FRIDAY 29 AUGUST

20.30 Hr PLATFORMTHEATER

BOTERDIEP 46, GRONINGEN

€ 15.00 / 12.50 in combination with SummerJazzCycleTour Go-as-you-please ticket

22.00 Hr NOORDERZON PODIUM OP ZUID

NOORDERPLANTSOEN,Groningen

Free admission

With the help of Odia Normandie /Office de diffusion et d’information artistique de Normandie

The Sicilian quintet Manziluna has a Groningen connection. Guitarist Leonardo Grimaudo programmes special late night concerts at the Il Sole in Cantina club in the Groningen city centre. Manziluna’s music combines the typical Italian light-footedness with strong melodies. The remarkable absence of a bassist is more than compensated by two well teamed-up guitarists.

Eric Boeren is best known for his work with Available Jelly and All Ellington. The cornetist has also been making a name for himself with his own 4tet, featuring Michael Moore and Han Bennink, in which he provides Ornette Coleman’s catchy compositions with a new coat of varnish. For the SummerJazzCycleTour Eric Boeren has assembled a special new quintet featuring the French vocalist Marie Guilleray, who will recite poetry by the Dutch poet and painter Lucebert.

Guitarist Corrie van Binsbergen always leads her own bands and never acts as sidewoman. She has been successfully organizing concerts with Dutch writers like Toon Tellegen, Tommy Wieringa and Esther Gerritsen. For the SummerJazzCycleTour Corrie van Binsbergen has compiled a special programme combining her music with spoken word by Groningen poet Tonnus Oosterhoff, Tjitske Jansen and Kees van Kooten.

The French bassist Joëlle Léandre is a veteran of the European improvised music scene. In the trio Les Diaboliques (featuring Maggie Nicols and Irène Schweitzer) she developed a theatrical way of performing, underscoring her quick reactions as an improviser. Joëlle Léandre is joined by the extremely talented cellist Vincent Courtois, best known in the Netherlands for his work with Louis Sclavis.

The combination of jazz and world music is what Steven Kamperman’s work is all about. Together with Behsat Uvez he was the backbone of Baraná. His new Horizon Trio once again proves how inspiring Eastern European and associated music is to Steven Kamperman. He is joined by the Turkish singer Sanem Kalfa and the Romanian guitarist and violinist George Dumitriu, two great musicians who have the perfect feel for his compositions.

Roof, 4Walls, Rubatong. Bassist Luc Ex played with all of these great bands at the SummerJazzCycleTour. Now it’s time for Bouge. This trio features two fantastic improvisers: trombonist Johannes Bauer from Berlin and the French vocalist and clarinettist Isabelle Duthoit. We will witness how the music takes shape on stage. Intense chamber music, wild and extreme.

The Italian clarinettist and composer Augusto Forti has been living in Amsterdam for over twenty years. In the past he performed at the SummerJazzCycleTour with his Gravitones and with a trio featuring Larry Fishkind and Alan Purves. As part of the Italian route Augusto Forti will present his latest project with the Amsterdam string quartet Zinc, for which he wrote all of the music.

From garage jazz, psychedelic blues and soundtracks to spacy rock ‘n’ roll. The labels Dans Dans has been dealt with speak volumes about Belgian guitarist Bert Dockx’s eclectic approach. For its first album the band delved into the works of Sun Ra, Nick Drake, Sonny Rollins and Ennio Morricone. Without a single exception they took them as starting points for adventurous improvisations.

Ever since guitarist Anton Goudsmit left the New Cool Collective he has been a free man. And he immediately took off on a stormy trip with the raw new power trio Goudsmit/Bakker/Jäger. The raucous rhythm section, consisting of Arno Bakker on sousaphone (Maison du Malheur, De Jongens Driest) and drummer Gerri Jäger (Knalpot), provides the guitarist with enough fuel to burn once again in this new band.

In their 20 year plus collaboration Gianni Gebbia and Diego Spitaleri have collected their favourite melodies in The Melody Book. The book contains their original music as well as tunes by others, varying from medieval lute music to a Chic hit or a song by Robert Wyatt. If you want to experience the personal choices by this Sicilian duo first-hand, make sure you are on time, for the Harkema miniature church doesn’t have a lot of seats.

Daniele D’Agaro is always a welcome guest at the SJCT. He gave us wonderful times with Lingua Franca, Trio San Francisco, and Sean Bergin’s MOB or, more recently, with Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Han Bennink. The clarinettist from Undine presents his new trio Ultramarine featuring the unusual combination of guitar or banjo plus marimba. Intimate, passionate, sometimes quiet music to dream away by.

The seasoned British singer Maggie Nicols is no stranger to the SJCT. She sang like a nightingale with Sean Bergin’s Songmob, in a duo with Corrie van Binsbergen and in the Nevergreens trio. Her performance and interpretation of well-known songs is still as impressive as ever. Maggie Nicols takes two excellent French musicians along: guitarist David Chevallier (Tous Dehors, Yves Robert) and drummer Denis Charolles (La Campagnie des Musiques à Ouïr).

With the help of Odia Normandie /Office de diffusion et d’information artistique de Normandie

What is more fun than one accordion? The Belgian duo Tuur Florizoone/Didier Laloy brings together various musical worlds. One of the guys plays chromatically, the other diatonically. Jazz and improvisation versus folk and grooves. The result is lyrical, free, but also virtuoso and above all a great celebration of opposites. Last year Tuur Florizoone performed with Eric Vloeimans’s Oliver’s Cinema to a raving audience.

Pianist Michiel Braam and his Flex Bent Braam perform a programme in the spirit of poet and painter Lucebert. When his colleague Simon Vinkenoog once asked Lucebert what he would consider to be the meaning of the Vijftigers artist movement, Lucebert replied with the titles of a series of jazz standards. Thus we get to hear Better Get it in Your Soul (Charles Mingus), Hot House (Tadd Dameron) and The Stratus Seekers (George Russell) in a fiery Braam treatment.

Wolfert Brederode’s duo with clarinettist Claudio Puntin made a huge impression at the Den Ham church during the 2010 SJCT. The pianist from The Hague returns to Cycling Tour country this year with the Swiss vocalist Susanne Abbuehl. Both are ECM recording artists and their music is sensitive and meditative. Together with the French pianist Stephan Oliva Susanne Abbuehl performs beautiful songs by Don Cherry. We are curious whether these tunes will be on the repertoire in Ezinge.

The Italian drummer Francesco Cusa once played in Garnwerd with the super trio Trionacria. His associates at the time were Gianni Gebbia (performing at the Harkema church this year) and trumpeter Roy Paci. That’s 14 years ago…. He now returns for the Italian route, and this time with The Assassins, a quartet from Bologna. They make a sort of Batman jazz on speed, caused by the zany tempos and the wonderful throb of the Hammond organ.

Guitarist Corrie van Binsbergen always leads her own bands and never acts as sidewoman. She has been successfully organizing concerts with Dutch writers like Toon Tellegen, Tommy Wieringa and Esther Gerritsen. For the SummerJazzCycleTour Corrie van Binsbergen has compiled as special programme combining her music with spoken word by Groningen poet Tonnus Oosterhoff, Tjitske Jansen and Kees van Kooten.

Reedist Martin Tervoort has assembled a quartet of veterans from the Groningen jazz scene. Fons Sluijter (Distorzio, Gebroeders Kromhout) and Bert Kleijn (Noodband, Gerard Ammerlaan’s Artisnt) used to be the Johan Huizing Quartet rhythm section. Hardmoed Grefe worked as a classical bassist in the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. And Martin? He took part in the Dutch Impro Academy for the past two years, but his SJCT history goes back to 1991 when he performed with the Oltambter Swing Triptet.

The 1000 quartet features an international dream line-up, extended with a special SJCT guest: the American guitarist and banjo player Eugene Chadbourne. With musical jacks-of-all-trades Bart Maris (FES, Synaesthetic Trip, Electric Barbarian) and Jan Klare (The Dorf, Das Böse Ding) the band has a front line of two energetic horn players. In a stroke of genius the German bandleader Jan Klare decided to invite the seasoned rhythm team of Wilbert de Joode and Michael Vatcher, who can keep abreast of any musical situation.

Saxophonist Tobias Delius is one of the SJCT’s mainstays. Following his ten year carte blanche series, in which he and pianist Cor Fuhler invited a drummer of international fame, the Berlin based reed player now has a new cunning plan. Will he attempt it again? Does he secretly hope for a sequel? This time his guest is Michiel Scheen, the pianist with whom Delius has a duo that is unfortunately seldom heard. Maybe they will include a drummer next year?

Gianluigi Trovesi’s (1944) clarinet playing is a role model for many Italian clarinettists. He mixes jazz with traditional Italian music and classical music. For over twelve years he has been recording for the ECM label. His tasteful albums are usually voted the best jazz albums in Italy. Gianluigi Trovesi has been performing with Marco Remondini for years. He is the cellist of his septet, but this will be their first concert as a duo.

The Xalam Trio from Brooklyn improvises on unpolished grooves from the Middle East, Africa and India. The sound of the New York band is somewhat reminiscent of Rabih Abou-Khalil’s music, but its rhythms are stronger and unrelenting. The great ud player Brandon Terzic recorded the CD Xalam Project in 2011 with the versatile reedist Matt Darriau (Klezmatics, Paradox Trio) and the brilliant percussionist Matt Kilmer. Matt Darriau performed at the SJCT before, with the De Jongens Driest Brass Quintet.

The Three Al’s is a Brokken production. Brokken originator Corrie van Binsbergen combined two members of her Wisselend Toonkwintet with Dutch writer A.L. Snijders, well-known for his ultra-short columns. Albert van Veenendaal, the prepared piano specialist, and Alan Purves, the Scottish percussion beast recently recorded the CD ‘and the cowgirls kept on dancing’ as Two Al’s. The music is a perfect match for A.L. Snijders’s deadpan delivery.

After the contemporary jazz extravaganza of the daytime programme the tired cycling muscles may be revitalized with music by DJs Swingmaster Sem en Yeah Man (a.k.a. Sem van Gelder and Eddy Determeyer), who will take a generous pick from their collection of 78s.

In 2001 the Amsterdam Klezmer Band wrought havoc in Dick’s barn. Who would have thought their joyful klezmer polka would ever get a remix by star producer Shantel? The band has recorded eight albums by now and has been racing around the European festival circuit. The Amsterdam Klezmer Band, still in its original line-up, will undoubtedly get the Garnwerd festival tent moving.