Complete Communion: The Best Jazz Of 2022

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.

Ensemble Klang: Louis Andriessen & Misha Mengelberg Ensemble Klang:

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.

Nederlands collectief met speelse jazz ergens tussen Duke Ellington en Misha Mengelberg

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.