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Four high profile improvisers of the Dutch jazz and improv scene have teamed up in this unusual line up.
They combine their distinctive instrumental skills and sound, wrapped up in brilliant short pieces, which are shaped on stage. The result is cutting edge music, exciting, hilarious and breathtaking. Anyone who has seen the group was surprised, moved, nurtured and inspired.
Mete Erker
Soprano & Tenor Sax
Oene van Geel
Viola & Cajon
Anton Goudsmit
Guitar
Jeroen van Vliet
Piano
Estafest - Chime
2016: Estafest records new album with BMC Records in Budapest, Hungary. Jan/Feb 2017 – CD release & presentation tour in the NL and abroad is planned for.
Showcases at Jazzahead 2014 and at the Dutch Jazz & World Meeting 2012.
Including three winners thé Dutch Jazz Award, the Boy Edgarprijs: Anton, Oene and Jeroen.
The 2014 album 'Opus Eno' (Challenge) is nominated for an Edison, the Dutch Grammy.
Concerts at a/o London Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Bimhuis, Porgy & Bess Vienna, Opus Jazzclub Budapest.
This steel drum jazz-funk power trio for the modern ear explodes onto stages with an indescribable sound that is as much felt as it is heard: "a Thelonius Monk-like attitude with a Mozart creativity" (Pan on the Net).
Weaving together collective and individual influences without compromise, they are as much themselves as they are a unit—a crucial trait of landmark instrumental ensembles. At center stage, steel pannist and founder Jonathan Scales' compositional skill mixes with tasteful, avant-garde improvisations to form an unmistakably unique approach to an instrument often associated with cruise ships and tropical music.
At stage left, bassist Cody Wright's gut-wrenching grooves and blistering, soulful melodic lines imbue the trio with a unique intensity that has to be witnessed to be completely understood. Wright is quickly becoming known around the world as a tasteful virtuoso—even bass legend Victor Wooten has called his playing "amazing and musical!".
At stage right, fueling the fire, drummer Chaisaray "Chais" Schenck's rock-solid grooves and percussive musicality inspire Scales and Wright to push even further.
Jonathan Scales
Steel Drums
Cody Wright
Bass Guitar
Chaisaray Schenck
Drums
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra - TNFJ
July 2016 - Jonathan Scales Fourchestra available for concerts in Europe!
2015 Dutch national press about Fourchestra debut in The Netherlands: "Jonathan Scales and his steel pan were the surprising highlight, giving a legendary concert at Jazz International in Rotterdam" (Volkskrant) "The real discovery of the festival was Jonathan Scales Fourchestra" (NRC)
Oct/Nov 2015 Debut of Jonathan Scales Fourchestra in Japan and Europe. In the NL performing a/o in the Bimhuis, Amsterdam and at Festival Jazz International Rotterdam.
"Scales is to steel pans ....what Béla Fleck is to the banjo—an über innovator." (Driftwood Magazine)
"The innovative steel drummer Jonathan Scales brings new vitality to the traditional Caribbean instrument, picking up where Othello Molineaux left off 20 years ago with Jaco Pastorius" (Jazz Times)
One of the most exciting Dutch jazz groups around, representing a new generation of wilful jazz musicians/composers, featuring a/o guitarist Reinier Baas, drummer Mark Schilders, saxophonist Bart Wirtz and hornplayer Morris Kliphuis.
The New Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra is turning into one of the coolest and most exciting new jazzgroups around in The Netherlands. The group has been able to create quite a following. Also the press are always enthusiastic about their concerts and/or CD-projects, with remarkable guest artists such as producer/musician Mark de Clive-Lowe, guitarist Anton Goudsmit, cellist Ernst Reijseger and recently with turntable wizard Kypski. Next project is the 'Rotterdam Suite', made in Rotterdam and made for Rotterdam, celebrating 75 years of Reconstruction.
Bart Wirtz
Flute, Alto Saxophone
Cyrille Oswald
Flute, Tenor Saxophone
Nils van Haften
Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone
Miguel Boelens
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone
Jan van Duikeren
Trumpet
Rob van de Wouw
Trumpet
Louk Boudesteijn
Trombone
Morris Kliphuis
Horn
Frans Cornelissen
Tuba
Johan Plomp
Double Bass
Mark Schilders
Drums
Tini Thomsen
Bariton Saxophone, Bass Clarinet
New Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra feat. Anton Goudsmit in Bimhuis playing 'Short Cuts'
2016/2017 Presenting the Rotterdam Suite, for Rotterdam Celebrating 75 years of Reconstruction.
January 2016: New Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra & Kypski tour in The Netherlands.
Recent performances at Brugge Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Bimhuis, Jazz International Rotterdam.
Collaborations with a/o Mark de Clive-Lowe, Anton Goudsmit and Ernst Reijseger.
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