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Crowdfunding Traeben

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As most of you know I’m a member of the Dutch/Danish quartet Traeben, with which we try to combine improvised Jazz music with elements from the Rock genre. We recently recorded our third album that we’re going to release in September in LantarenVenster in Rotterdam. But to complete the new album we need financial support, and therefore we started a crowdfunding campagne at Voordekunst.nl.

On this (Dutch) website you can read all about this project, and there’s a video in which we shorty explain how it works. Also in this video you can hear some of the new music already. So if you like what we’re doing, this is your chance to help us with releasing a great cd in September! Go to the website, click on ‘Steun dit project’, and with every donation (even €10,-) you will support us greatly. At the bottom you’ll find the link, thank you for supporting us and we also hope to see you September 19th in LantarenVenster!

VOORDEKUNST

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‘Caldo’

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That was really amazing – what an incredible player and guy, and what a great time we had with Joey Calderazzo! The three concerts in Wageningen, Amsterdam and Warsaw were a great experience, the whole trio was burning! Thank you all for coming and thanks for the great responds we got on all three concerts, it was really something..

Now from one thing into another – Traeben will be performing at the Copenhagen International Jazz Festival coming week. We’ll be playing four gigs over there, if you’re around please come by and check us out. We’ll be playing repertoire of our still-to-release new album and some old stuff of course. That’ll be fun too! Check the dates and venues here.

And for everybody who wasn’t in Warsaw: here are two songs in one video from the concert over there (‘Meaning of the Blues’ and ‘Mighty Sword’). Enjoy!

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Tour with Joey Calderazzo

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I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be doing a small tour with the great Joey Calderazzo this summer! The bass-player Jasper Somsen was in contact with his management, and he asked me to join the trio and do a couple of gigs in July. We’ll be starting the 3rd of July at Jazz in Wageningen, to continue the next day at the Bimhuis and then we’ll fly to Warsaw to play at the Warsaw Jazz Festival.

Joey Calderazzo has made name as keyboard player and composer of two of the most important tenor saxophonists of the past 40 years, Michael Brecker and Branford Marsalis. As a solo pianist and leader of his own trio he has released albums on different labels including Blue Note. As the main musical collaborator of Branford Marsalis he worked on successful projects including the electric band Buckshot LeFonque and the acoustic duo album Songs of Mirth and Melancholy.

If you’re excited too, please come and check us out! That’s gonna be some nice music..

 

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Ellen ten Damme @ the Concertgebouw

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A very special project is taking place this week. Ellen ten Damme wanted to record a cd with German repertoire for a long time, and decided to do that in a very special way. She put together her ‘Magpie-Orchestra’, which is her band, with a horn section and a group of strings added, and she’s going to record her cd live at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. We’ve been rehearsing for a while now, and the arrangements (mainly by Konrad Koselleck and Rob Horsting) are starting to sound really good! It is so nice to hear all the different sounds and sound-combinations in an orchestra like this, along with the varied repertoire (Kurt Weil, Marlène Dietrich, Nina Hagen, Rihanna) – I think it’s gonna be a great night and a very special cd..

Friday May 9th at the Concertgebouw – Amsterdam:

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Jens on his improv-practices

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Recently Jens Larsen (the guitarist and main composer of Traeben) started to write about his practices for improvising. As he mentions in one of his lessons, I also had a talk with him about the fact that there are hundreds of books with exersizes, hundreds of DVD’s about specific styles, but almost no information about how to put the stuff you practice into your playing. How do you do that, what do you do with an exercise on stage?

Among other things Jens talks about that, trying to explain how he does that (which is not only interesting for guitarists). Of course some stuff is really guitar-only, but I do think he speaks about a lot of interesting matter. Check it out, and read it on his website.

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Slagwerkkrant

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This month I’m featured in the Slagwerkkrant, the dutch drum magazine. Thanks to Mark van Schaick they reviewed two cd’s (Holland Bigband and Sven Ratzke) and interviewed me about my approach to both cd’s, the recording process and the differences in working in those two bands (bigband vs smallband with song approach). Obviously it’s a whole different world, so it’s nice to see the comparison in one article. Read the interview online here:

http://www.slagwerkkrant.nl/nieuws/artikel/25-12992/haye-jellema-in-slagwerkkrant-180

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