Thursday 21 January 2010

UMLAUT DOUBLE-TRIO / SPINIFEX TUBA BAND

UMLAUT DOUBLE-TRIO:
Marc Ducret, Fred Poncet gitaar, Antonin Rayon hammondorgel/clavinet, Fred Escoffier synthesizer, Emmanuel Scarpa drums.
SPINIFEX TUBA BAND:
Ned McGowan fluiten, Gijs Levelt trompet, Tobias Klein altsax, klarinetten, Joost Buis trombone, Tjeerd Oostendorp, Axel Schappert tuba, Theo van Tol accordeon, Gerri Jäger drums

DubbelPlus (Double Plus), organized by Amsterdam based record label TryTone, is a concert series in which Dutch artists meet likeminded musicians from abroad. French drummer Emmanuel Scarpa leads Umlaut and plays with Marc Ducret’s trio. These two bands regularly merge into a double trio, for which Scarpa writes music. The Spinifex Orchestra boasts a wild blend of styles. ‘Their immensely varied debut album encompasses many extremes: jazz, hard rock, Balkan elements and contemporary classical music’ (de Volkskrant).

This concert will be broadcast courtesy of VPROJazzLive on Radio 6 and via vprojazzlive.radio6.nl, both live and by video stream afterwards.

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