[Dixielandjazz] Well, it ain't The Dutch Swing College Band!!!!!

[David Richoux]

There is some really unusual stuff coming out of the "Low Countries"  
in the last 30 years - the Willem Breuker Kollektief and Belgium's  
FES (Flat Earth Society ) ensemble take modern and traditional OKOM  
elements and mix them freely! I have seen the WBK live and have  
recordings from both groups - I find them to be quite interesting,  
personally.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~wbk/index.html  for more on Willem Breuker  
Kollektief
http://www.fes.be/swf/eng.swf  for more Flat Earth Society

The ICP will be in the Bay Area next week...

Dave Richoux


On Mar 23, 2006, at 7:35 AM, Steve barbone wrote:

> For Cees and our Dutch friends, as well as the more adventurous  
> members of
> the DJML. The ICP, seems to be grounded in basic jump swing.  
> Interesting if
> only to illustrate the progression from OKOM to Avant Garde.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> Jazz Review - ICP Orchestra's Experimental Jazz Swings at Tonic
>
> NY TIMES - By NATE CHINEN - March 23, 2006
>
> For the first 10 minutes of the ICP Orchestra's early set at Tonic on
> Tuesday night, the pianist Misha Mengelberg and the drummer Han  
> Bennink
> indulged in an improvised duet, something they have been doing  
> together for
> roughly 40 years. Their styles were complementary, if a bit  
> bizarrely so.
> Mr. Mengelberg gave the impression of a man groping for the  
> doorknob in a
> darkened room. Mr. Bennink occupied the same room, but with a  
> different
> temperament, impatiently and heedlessly knocking things around.
>