FLEX BENT BRAAM: LUCEBERT
Afterwards at the café: DJ PLUTONES
Michiel Braam piano/composition, Olaf Hollmann, Bart van der Putten reeds, Angelo Verploegen trumpet, Wolter Wierbos trombone, Tony Overwater bass, Joost Lijbaart drums
After 25 years of Bik Bent Braam the Dutch pianist Michiel Braam has decided to move on in a more compact and flexible line-up. Flex Bent Braam will present a new album, Lucebert, dedicated to the eponymous poet, CoBrA painter and jazz fanatic. The CD is part of the book Lucebert & Jazz, with texts by and on Lucebert and photographs by Pieter Boersma. During the concert the book will be handed over to author Remco Campert.
When asked in 1965 to comment on the state of the literary movement De Vijftigers, Lucebert reacted with a telegram consisting of jazz titles: ‘Hot House, Dizzy Atmosphere (Misty), When Your Lover Has Gone (Get Out Of Town), Straight No Chaser, I May Be Wrong (So What), Let’s Cool One, Better Git It In Your Soul, Stratus Seekers.’
Exactly these jazz standards, arranged in a unique fashion, will be alternated with new compositions by Braam based on Lucebert’s Japanese epigrams. ‘Michiel Braam is one of the most exciting and prolific composers in jazz’ (Chicago Reader).
Afterwards at the café: DJ Plutones
The Bimhuis restaurant
is open prior to the concert from 6.30 til 8.30PM (reservations via
020-7882158). After the concert, the Bimhuis Café is open (free
entrance).