Spaargaren Meets Balthaus at Cafe Van Leeuwen

Saxophone meets piano. Melody meets harmony. Freedom and spontaneity. Sounds and rhythm, whimsical and fluent.

Iman Spaargaren (Young VIPs Tour 2012) is a multi-reed player, arranger and composer. Iman has a distinctive way of playing and a very personal tone on his horn. During the past few years Iman has been busy with a wide variety of music groups such as Iman Spaargaren Undercurrent, Iman Spaargaren Quartet & Septet and Thelonious4.

"Iman Spaargaren: a busy man, not deprived of outstanding musical qualities, as an instrumentalist as well as a composer. On his newest album all 11 compositions are his writing. The pieces have an almost natural simplicity and sound transparant and spacious due to the line up and the high quality of Spaargaren's bandmembers - guitarist Guillermo Celano, bassist Cord Heineking and drummer Jasper van Hulten. It is nice listenable modern harmonic jazz, which has solos of great stature by the tenorsaxophonist - sometimes on bass clarinet - Spaargaren and guitarist Celano" (Jacques Los, Draaiomjeoren, 2013)....

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Saxophone meets piano. Melody meets harmony. Freedom and spontaneity. Sounds and rhythm, whimsical and fluent.

Iman Spaargaren (Young VIPs Tour 2012) is a multi-reed player, arranger and composer. Iman has a distinctive way of playing and a very personal tone on his horn. During the past few years Iman has been busy with a wide variety of music groups such as Iman Spaargaren Undercurrent, Iman Spaargaren Quartet & Septet and Thelonious4.

"Iman Spaargaren: a busy man, not deprived of outstanding musical qualities, as an instrumentalist as well as a composer. On his newest album all 11 compositions are his writing. The pieces have an almost natural simplicity and sound transparant and spacious due to the line up and the high quality of Spaargaren's bandmembers - guitarist Guillermo Celano, bassist Cord Heineking and drummer Jasper van Hulten. It is nice listenable modern harmonic jazz, which has solos of great stature by the tenorsaxophonist - sometimes on bass clarinet - Spaargaren and guitarist Celano" (Jacques Los, Draaiomjeoren, 2013).

"Spaargaren excels in strong melodies and lyricism. Playing fast doesn't win of formlessness, even fast runs reveal their melodical format. Besides that much more freedom is to be heared compared to earlier works. Spaargaren must have felt an inner urge to go that way since he wrote 11 new compositions for 'In The Moment'. One of reasons might be touring together with Cactus Truck during the Young VIP Tour 2012, or the influence of guitarist Guillermo Celano, who's been up front all the time" (Jan Jasper Tamboer, Jazzenzo, 2013).

Pianist Dirk Balthaus is active as a pianist and producer in several band projects. As a member of Joan Reinder's Millennium Jazz Orchestra he played with many jazzlegends, like Benny Golson, Lee Konitz and Ack van Rooyen. Recent CD's: Safety Zone (Millennium Jazz Orchestra, 2014), Listen to a Stranger (Karen Vrijburg Group, 2014).

www.imanspaargaren.nl

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