Stichting Misha Mengelberg

Met Misha én Pief! Première 15 september en nog twee voorstellingen op 16 en 17 september 2023 op het 25th International Film Festival Film by the Sea in Vlissingen.

Last night I caught a remarkable, mostly improvised performance by reedists Tobias Delius and Ab Baars here in Berlin within the cozy confines of KM28. The musicians are probably best known as long-time members of the ICP Orchestra, where they have built an astonishing rapport over decades of work together and the set revealed an almost telepathic degree of communication. Their performance ended with a gorgeous reading of ‘De Sprong, O Romantiek der Hazen’, a ballad by ICP co-founder Misha Mengelberg, that delivered velvety splendor, but the rest of the music was all made up on the spot.

The second Friday of every month: 2nd Stop is Jupiter! Dancing to the wildest live music in town. Tonight the 2nd edition of Mishakosmos – exploring the world of Misha Mengelberg in its diverse forms.

The 2nd Stop Is Jupiter: MISHAKOSMOS II

Ensemble Klang’s The Big Loud Thing In honor of the 50th anniversary of the iconic Orkest De Volharding, the street orchestra of Louis Andriessen and Willem Breuker, Ensemble Klang presents a series of free pop-up concerts in which the music of De Volharding is central. Free-thinking, colorful and cooperative, De Volharding’s saxophones, brass instruments and rhythm section effortlessly combine contemporary music with jazz, pop and avant-garde. De Volharding is an icon in Dutch ensemble culture, it stood at the cradle of hundreds of works by leading composers, fascinates the public to this day and is a great source of inspiration for the next generation of artists.

Saxofonist Jasper Blom geniet niet alleen een aanzienlijke reputatie als musicus en bandleider maar ook als docent. Samen met een drietal leerlingen – trompettist Ian Cleaver, contrabassist Thomas Pol en drummer Wouter Kühne – trad hij regelmatig op in café Zilt, gelegen aan de Amsterdamse Zeedijk. Lees verder bij Jazzenzo…

ZILT werd geboren in een Amsterdams whiskeycafé op de Zeedijk. Tenorsaxofonist Jasper Blom en trompettist Ian Cleaver, respectievelijk docent en leerling, legden zich daar wekelijks toe op stukken van Misha Mengelberg en Duke Ellington: jazzlegendes uit verschillende tijdperken met een vergelijkbaar onbevangen en speels karakter. ZILT verweeft hun composities met elkaar door middel van improvisatie. Dit concert (vrijdag 2 september 2022) staat in het teken van het nieuwe album van ZILT op Just Listen Records.

Cadence Media presents a 14 minute doc featuring memories about Misha from ICP members: Wolter Weirbos, Ernst Glerum, Ab Baars, Mary Oliver, Michael Moore. Recorded on one day in February 2012 at the Bimhuis Concert venue in Amsterdam.

Join series moderator Greg Drusdow Monday, August 22, 2022 to view the North American Premiere of the 65-minute long jazz documentary film “MISHA enzovoort” (MISHA and so on) which will be presented using a Region 2 (Europe) DVD and is in Dutch with English subtitles.  This movie was directed by Cherry Duyns.

Charismatic, quirky, unique – that’s what we say about percussionist Han Bennink (1942), who celebrates his eightieth birthday this year. He surely deserves national treasure status by now because he can look back on an incredible career in which he played all kinds of jazz without ever making concessions. Bennink’s work with the Instant Composers Pool is still a jewel in his crown 55 years on.