Events

Joe McPhee: The tireless reed player’s multi-decade career serves as a road map of the international avant garde, encompassing performance, recording and cross-genre collaborations." - By Daniel Spicer, WIRE, February 2019
"... Joe McPhee's magical take on avant-garde sax remains one of the wonders of the scene. He still has one of the most beautiful tones on the planet, even when he’s reaching for jazz’s outer limits." mjd 5/02

"Steve Swell attacks and exploits the instrument's peculiarities as a race car driver would a Ferrari. No wind-blown instrument is more capable of tonal extremes than the trombone, a fact that Swell makes manifest with his howling glissandi and chattering chromaticism, to say nothing of a postbop linearity that would make J.J. Johnson proud. Swell has an extraordinary conventional technique which he puts to quite unconventional use, spiced liberally with an assortment of his own very personal idiosyncrasies." (Jazz Now Magazine, USA)

"Mark Tokar plays double bass with concentrated absorption and utter openness to the act’s contingent events, showing an unwavering focus from which the will of enclosing devotion and wisdom in a single entity transpires." - Massimo Ricci, touchingextremes
"Mark Tokar's larger-than-life tone and impeccable intonation is front-and-center …" - John Vincent Barron, Jazzreview.com

"Klaus Kugel is a model drummer" - Francis Davis, USA
"Drummer Klaus Kugel is one of Central Europe's most articulate modern jazz drummers ... he treads the boundary between inside and outside playing in a particularly incisive way; always listening and never getting caught up in his own considerable chops." - Dave Wayne, AAJ, USA

This is not a Holiday European tour

Follow up: A second conversation between 2 giants. 2 oude vrienden zoeken mekaar na jaren terug op ten huize Parazzar, en vuurwerk zal het zijn. Een intieme set van grote virtuositeit. Joe McPhee wordt dezelfde dag 85! Vier je mee?

STORY

Na zeven jaar vindt het open regionaal danskampioenschap eindelijk terug plaats waar het ooit begon. ...’. In de categorie tapdans heeft Berdine Van Sassenbroek haar zinnen gezet op een verlenging van haar titel. Niet evident want Berdine heeft net gebroken met haar man én ze is dit jaar niet de enige kandidaat.

Deuren 16:00. U kunt iets eten vooraf, al vanaf 17:30, en enkel op reservatie via soulbar@parazzar.be of 050 33 55 28. De keuken sluit om 19:15! wegens de voorbereiding van de show.

After a tour in the United States in April of 2022, festival appearances in Belgrade and Stockholm later that year, and performances in Belgium during the autumn of 2023, Paul Lytton (drums), Ken Vandermark (reeds), and Nate Wooley (trumpet), three key figures of the international experimental and improvised music scenes, will come together for a unique series of concerts in England, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands during September of 2024.  Vandermark and Wooley have been working as a duo for almost a decade, touring in both the States and in Europe, and have released three critically acclaimed albums together.  Both have performed and recorded with Lytton many times, and the three of them issued an album of trio material as part of the double CD, The Nows, in 2012.  The trio’s upcoming tour in Europe will be an extremely rare chance to hear Paul Lytton perform.  His history connected to improvised music is legendary, and this collaboration with Vandermark and Wooley, two of the most significant cutting-edge musicians of their generations, will exceptional.

Paul Lytton, a central figure in the British free improvisation movement of the 1960s and 70s which included Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, and Paul Rutherford, was instrumental in reshaping the way drums and percussion were viewed in free music. He is one of a handful of percussionists from that time whose work allowed the drum kit to become even more free from the timekeeping constraints of jazz up to that point; the instrument becoming less a set of drums and more a series of membranes on which to create an atmosphere. His earliest experiments in homemade instruments and electronics with Evan Parker have spurred generations on to look outside systems with names such as "jazz" and "improv" and to explore new modes of communication in the moment.

Ken Vandermark is an avant-garde composer, improviser, saxophonist/clarinetist, curator, writer; and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in music 1999.  He moved to Chicago from Boston in 1989 and has worked continuously from the early 1990s onward, both as a performer and organizer in North America, Europe, Latin America, Japan, and Ethiopia, recording in a large array of contexts, with many internationally renowned musicians. 

Nate Wooley’s solo playing has often been cited as being a part of an international revolution in improvised trumpet and has gathered international acclaim.  Time Out New York has called him “an iconoclastic trumpeter”, and Dave Douglas has said, “Nate Wooley is one of the most interesting and unusual trumpet players living today, and that is without hyperbole”.  His collaborative work as a composer has been celebrated by critics and has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

Welcome back Ken en Nate!

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