Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle, WA
Sunday, October 14, 2012
The Blue Monk, Portland, OR
Wednesday,October 17, 2012
Space 12, Austin TX
Friday, October 19, 2012
Studio 101, Houston, TX
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Spring Street Studios, Houston, TX
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The Blue Nile, New Orleans, LA
Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 8:00PM
Conundrum, Columbia, SC
Saturday, October 27, 2012
The Sugar Maple, Milwaukee, WI
Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 4:00PM
Porto Luz, Chicago Lakeside, IL
Tuesday, Ocotber 30, 2012 at 8:00PM
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Edgefest, Ann Arbor, MI
Friday, November 2, 2012
Bowdoin College , Brunswick, ME
Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 8:00PM
Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Sunday, November 4, 2012 at 8:00PM
The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 8:00PM
ShapeShifter Lab, New York, NY
Ab Baars and Ig Henneman are among the standouts of the Netherlands’ jazz and new music community. Baars also performes with the famous ICP Orchestra(International Composers Pool) and with his own trio; this will be Henneman’s Hallwalls 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 former’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.
Together, Baars and Henneman operate the Wig label, which releases vital recordings of the Dutch improv scene.
