Ab Baars – tenor sax, clarinet
Ken Vandermark – tenor sax, clarinet
Wilbert de Joode – bass
Martin van Duynhoven – drums

„Während der letzten Jahre haben Ken Vandermark und ich uns oft getroffen, kurze Treffen, die aber immer Wirkung gezeigt haben. So haben wir in Chicago mit Han Bennink und Hamid Drake gespielt. Ich liebe seine Energie und seine klare Art Tenor und Klarinette zu spielen und auch seine Kompositionen : kurz und auf den Punkt. Der Klang von 2 Tenorsaxophonen hat mich immer fasziniert, der schöne und singende sound einer unisono Linie – da haben wir große Beispiele in der Geschichte des Tenorsaxophons besonders aus Chicago. So habe ich Ken eingeladen um mit mir zusammenzuspielen. Wir werden auch neue eigene Kompositionen mit diesem Quartett aufführen“.
Ab Baars

There is a shocking vulnerability to Ab Baars’s saxophone ballads, informed (to these ears) by Von’s 38th-chorus abstractions on some favorite standard, Sonny Rollins’s sense of the grotesque, and the writhing plasticity of Albert Ayler’s sound. But the net effect, touching and garish, painfully intimate, raw and rude and beautiful, is pure Ab Baars. Kevin Whitehead

The core trio of bassist Wilbert de Joode and drummer Martin van Duynhoven celebrated ten years together with Baars on this joyous and adventurous collection. Their chemistry is omnipresent, with de Joode’s powerfully corporeal approach to the bass dovetailing nicely with van Duynhoven’s crisp, precise drumming. Bill Barton

KEN VANDERMARK
For the past 20 years, Ken Vandermark has been exploring and expanding the possibilities of improvised and composed music.

Since moving to Chicago in 1989, he’s worked within a variety of contexts with many internationally renowned improving musicians. Currently, the majority of his work has been directed toward the Vandermark 5, Bridge 61, the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, FME, Sonore, the Nilssen-Love/Vandermark Duo, the Territory Band and Free Fall.Norway

He was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. One of the „Chicagoans of the Year in the Arts, 1994“ (Chicago Tribune, January 1, 1995) for the Vandermark Quartet. Selected as one of the „25 For The Future,“ the most significant improvising musicians under the age of 40 by Down Beat Magazine, June 1998 in 2004, Ken was named one of the „Musicians Of The Year“ by All About Jazz, New York.

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