Misha Mengelberg Quartet January 18, 2008

Dutch jazz pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg (b. 1935), son of the conductor Karel Mengelberg, studied music at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where he won first prize at a jazz festival in Loosdrecht and became associated with the Fluxus movement. Over the decades, Mengelberg has also collaborated with many of the best-known players in European avant-garde and American free jazz including Cecil Taylor, Ken Vandermark, and Dave Douglas and Anthony Braxton.