Nameless Sound presents
AB BAARS & IG HENNEMAN
Friday, October 19, 2012, 8pm
Studio 101 at Spring Street Studios
1824 Spring Street, Houston
$13 general | $10 with student i.d. | 18 and under, free!
Ab Baars (Amsterdam): tenor saxophone, clarinet, shakuhachi
Ig Henneman (Amsterdam): viola
Ab Baars and Ig Henneman are among the leading lights of the Netherlands' jazz and new music community. Baars has previously performed in Houston with the ICP Orchestra and with his own trio; this will be Henneman's Nameless Sound debut. Their duo program is entitled "Autumn Songs," which Baars describes as "compositions and improvisations inspired by poems on autumn in all its different meanings." ...
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Nameless Sound presents
AB BAARS & IG HENNEMAN
Friday, October 19, 2012, 8pm
Studio 101 at Spring Street Studios
1824 Spring Street, Houston
$13 general | $10 with student i.d. | 18 and under, free!
Ab Baars (Amsterdam): tenor saxophone, clarinet, shakuhachi
Ig Henneman (Amsterdam): viola
Ab Baars and Ig Henneman are among the leading lights of the Netherlands' jazz and new music community. Baars has previously performed in Houston with the ICP Orchestra and with his own trio; this will be Henneman's Nameless Sound debut. Their duo program is entitled "Autumn Songs," which Baars describes as "compositions and improvisations inspired by poems on autumn in all its different meanings."
A highly distinctive voice from the fertile Dutch jazz scene, Ab Baars (b. Magrette, Netherlands, 1955) combines idiosyncratic creativity with technical skill and a knowledge of his music's roots. Though his music has been described as "joyously obstinate," it has an undeniable and colorful catchy-ness that stems from it stripped essence. As an instrumentalist, Baars has been influenced by American jazz greats like Roscoe Mitchell and John Carter, both of whom he has worked with. As a composer, improvisor and band-leader, Baars displays all of the musical characteristics that have come to define the Dutch creative music scene: open forms, varied instrumental strategies, a wacky use of juxtaposition, and an unwillingness to treat jazz--or any music--as a fixed art form. Baars is a mainstay of the ICP Orchestra, the defining group for Dutch jazz, and leads his own longstanding trio with bassist Wilbert de Joode and drummer Martin van Duynhoven.
Over the course of a fifty-year career, Ig Henneman (b. Haarlem, 1945) has explored a wide spectrum of musical idioms, including rock, pop, and symphonic music, and has composed for an equally broad range of performance situations, including for string quartets, films, and puppeteers. She has studied the music of Russian composers Galina Ustvolskaya and Sofia Gubaidulina, unifying the opposing forces of the formal's structural severity and the latter's improvisational freedom. The result is an open-minded music with a meticulous attention to detail, with no wasted notes and an emphasis on pulse, timbre, and dynamics.
The 'Autumn Songs' tour is presented with the support of the Performing Arts Fund NL.
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