Rough Idea + Music Gallery
present
THE NEWS (Amsterdam/Chicago)
Eric Boeren (NL) cornet
Cor Fuhler (NL) piano
Nate McBride (US) bass
Mike Reed (US) drums
MUSIC GALLERY
st george-the-martyr anglican church
197 john st at stephanie
next THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8 8PM
$12 (two for $20)
THE NEWS is a new name for a new band assembled for the EUROPEAN JAZZ MEETS CHICAGO component of the 2007 Umbrella Music Festival in Chicago. Percussionist, presenter and curator Mike Reed (who was at the Guelph Jazz Festival in September with Exploding Star Orchestra) has invited Nate McBride to join him in collaborating with Boeren and Fuhler at the Chicago Cultural Centre where they share the bill with five other acts, including Czech Republic¹s Iva Bittova who precedes them by two nights at the Gallery in Toronto. The NEWS' Rough Idea/Music Gallery performance in Toronto is part of an eastern NA tour; upon their return in December, they will tour Holland.
http://www.doek.org/artists.html
http://www.umbrellamusic.org/2007fest.html
Eric Boeren made his first steps in music with the brassband of Ulicoten, a small village in the south of Holland. He played solo euphonium, then moved over to the Eb tuba. He liked the bizarre look of a sixteen year-old carrying that immense horn at the rear of the band. Being lazy and not willing to count out the multiple bars of having nothing to play, he started to listen to the interplay of melody and counter melody for cues to come in on time. At eighteen, after attending his first concerts of improvised music, he switched to cornet, his first love. He attended workshops at Amsterdam¹s Bimhuis, and developed his interest in melodic shapes, musical cues, texture and sonority. In the following ten years Boeren played with the Maarten Altena Ensemble, Willem van Manen¹s Contraband, Ab Baars Tentet and the Paul Termos Tentet. He joined Available Jelly, and became a member of J.C. Tans and his Rockets, Sean Bergin¹s MOB and Frankie Douglas' Sunchild. He holds the chair of second trumpet and soloist in Michiel Braam's Bik Bent Braam since 1990. He formed the Eric Boeren 4tet which features Ornette Coleman¹s compositions alongside Eric¹s own pieces. As a composer, Boeren has contributed to the repertoires of Available Jelly, Bik Bent Braam, Big Band Nieuwe Muziek, JC Tans and his Rockets, Sean Bergin's MOB and Mobette and of course his own quartet. He is also composes for special proejcts, such as Eric Boeren Double Quartet and Eric Boeren Guitar Band.
Cor Fuhler began playing the piano, organ, and self-made instruments at the age of six and graduated in '89 from the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He began exploring music in groups such as Carduelis Carduelis and Wayang Detective (a combination of improv, gamelan and shadow puppets). He formed the trio Fuhler-Bennink-de Joode that is still active. Another important project was Olympicnic: a theatrical concert about technological extremes: super 8 films, live finger cameras, powerbook, modular synths, shadow play inside the grand piano and turntables. ConundrumCD, a mini label, provides an alternative avenue for exploring compositional ideas by "computer dubbing" of various musical materials. The Corkestra and Cortet are two of his most recent initiatives. His interest in the possibilities of extending the piano sound has led him to collect and build various acoustic instruments (keyolin), and to work with electronics. Depending on the situation, he mixes these in different installations and scenarios. Groups with which he is involved include Palinckx, Mimeo (with Jerome Noetinger, Keith Rowe, Peter Rehberg, Phil Durrant, and many others...), the Flirts (with Gert-Jan Prins), Monitor (with Michael Moore and Tristan Honsinger), and Delius-Lovens-Fuhler (with Tobias Delius and Paul Lovens).
Nate McBride has played the bass for nine years. He did some formal study, and taught himself a good deal. He leads his own rock and jazz groups and records and performs regularly with some of the standard bearers of second-century jazz and improvised music. Among the musicians with whom he has worked in close association are Joe Morris, Pandelis Karayorgis, Mat Maneri, and Ken Vandermark. Nate has performed or recorded with many others, including Joe Mcphee, Foyd Standifer, Clark Terry, and Paal Nilssen-love. HIs latest band release is the Engines out of Chicago with Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop and Tim Daisy. http://www.okkadisk.com/releases/od12057.html
Mike Reed is a musician, composer and presenter based in Chicago. As a drummer, Reed has been part of the vibrant Chicago jazz and improvised music community since 1997. He has performed regularly with David Boykin, Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker, Axel Doerner, Josh Abrams, Jim Baker, Rob Mazurek and others. As a leader Reed has released two critically acclaimed albums by his cross-genre group The Treehouse Project, and, more recently, the debut recording of his quintet Loose Assembly and a record of improvised duets. He currently is a member of The David Boykin Expanse , Rob Mazurek¹s Exploding Star Orchestra and Josh Berman Quartet. For nearly a decade Reed has also established himself as a presenter of musical performances. In 2001 Reed founded the Emerging Improvisers Organization, a not-for-profit whose weekly series of jazz and improvised music has been lauded as one of the finest in the Midwest. In December 2005 Reed was named among the Chicagoans of the Year by The Chicago Tribune for his work as lead organizer of the Intonation Music Festival.
"Boeren played a long narrow cornet, rather like the first trumpet that Louis Armstrong played after changing from cornet, and he got an exceptionally clean bright sound - so clean and bright that it sounded silvery, like the plating of his instrument - which was deployed at times in the kind of pond-skipping skittery interval jumps we associate with the late Don Cherry. It jumped at times to impressive heights and seemed to glance down at us from up there for a moment, like a mirror flashed in the sun." John Clare, the Age.
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