ICP Orchestra March 29, 2007

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Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (Amsterdam)

Thursday March 29, 2007 8PM
Carver Theater
(1165 Angelina Street)

Epistrophy Arts kicks off its 9th season of adventurous international jazz on Thursday March 29th at the Carver Theater (1165 Angelina) with Amsterdam’s ICP Orchestra, co-led by Misha Mengleberg, piano, and Han Bennink, drums. Together since 1967, ICP features some of the best Dutch and European improvisers on the planet: Ab Baars, Michael Moore and Tobias Delius, reeds, Thomas Heberer, trumpet, Wolter Wierbos, trombone, Mary Oliver, violin, Tristan Honsinger, cello, and Ernst Glerum, bass.

The Instant Composers Pool Orchestra encompasses a full range of modern music: Ellington and Monk, Kurt Weill and European dance band music, Webern-like chamber music, South African kwela, free improvisation, conducted improvisation, interactive games, counterpoint and simultaneity, catchy melodies, pastel harmonies, order and built - in chaos.

"ICP's mix is perplexing in the best sense: the music doesn't give up its secrets on first hearing, or second, or third”, writes Kevin Whitehead in his book, New Dutch Swing. “It keeps you coming back. This is jazz /improvised music at its most deft and sophisticated."

Misha Mengelberg co-founded the Instant Composers Pool - a nonprofit collective of Dutch composers/improvisers/instrumentalists - with Han Bennink and Willem Breuker in 1967. He has performed in duo with Han Bennink for more than 30 years and led the ICP Orchestra for more than 20. His other credits include performing and recording with Eric Dolphy, John Tchicai, Derek Bailey, Steve Lacy, Peter Brötzmann, and many others.

Han Bennink is one of the most in-demand drummers in Europe. He has performed and recorded with jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins, as well as European improvisers such as Peter Brötzmann, Derek Bailey, and Willem Breuker. He trained as a graphic artist and has exhibited work in several media, including sculptures from found objects that can include broken drum heads and drumsticks; he also designs many of his own LP and CD sleeves.

“This band continues to show that cutting-edge music-making is not necessarily dour and humorless,” wrote Howard Reich recently in The Chicago Tribune, “that innovative ideas need not be severed from generations of jazz tradition and that composition and improvisation can coexist effectively when a group of like-minded tinkerers knows what it's doing.”

Tickets are $18 in advance at Waterloo Records (600A N Lamar Blvd) and End of An Ear Records (2209 South First Street).. $20/door.

This project is funded by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division, The Creative Opportunity Orchestra and individual contributions.


Epistrophy Arts is a grass roots cultural organization dedicated to presenting the finest in adventurous music in Austin Texas. Since 1998 we have organized over 50 concerts with internationally renowned figures in improvised and experimental music. The music we present is on the cutting edge of world culture. Our aim is to widen the cultural horizons of the 'Live Music Capital of The World' by bringing the most daring and uncompromising artists in the world to Austin .

Official Website: http://www.epistrophyarts.org