Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

16:00 Bibliotheek (for free) – Documentary Joëlle Léandre Continue Basse
18:00, continuously Bibliotheek – Documentary Charlie Haden
17:50 & 19:30 Mezzanine – Foyer – Françoise Vanhecke, More than a voice
18:00 Concertzaal – Sophie Alour – Jozef Dumoulin – Dré Pallemaerts
20:00 Kraakhuis – Ernst Reijseger
20:00 Auditorium – Re:new Music
20:00 Toegangsgebouw – B3B: Fred Van Hove/ Wilbert de Joode / Barry Guy
20:00 Bibliotheek – Project El Negocito Records/Logos: human and machine
21:10 Toegangsgebouw – Cheiron Trio
21:30 Toegangsgebouw – improvisation by Alexandros Markeas & Mathias Kolle
22:00 Concertzaal – Miroslav Vitous ‘Remembering Weather Report’

You’d like 4 days of Jazz & Sounds? With the 4day ticket you can go to all the concerts at Vooruit, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke and the conservatorium. Get the 4day ticket for €60 (€ 65 adk)

You’d like the 2 days at Muziekcentrum De Bijloke? Get the 2day ticket for €35 (€40 adk)

Documentary Joëlle Léandre Continue Basse

16:00 Bibliotheek, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, for free

Directed by Christine Baudillon, and shot by her and Francois Lagarde, the documentary follows Leandre during the past two years—at in her home in Paris and country home in South France, her residence at Mills College in California, various musical meetings throughout France and Belgium and her tour in Israel.

The articulate and passionate Leandre shares her passion and her uncompromising conviction on behalf of her art—and commitment to free improvisation—in a series of anecdotes, interviews and daily chats with friends and associates. She speaks about the formative influence of iconoclastic free-thinkers and composers such as John Cage and Giancinto Scelci, the exemplary role of Derek Bailey, and the egalitarian and urgent character of genuinely free improvisation. She is seen and heard while discussing its burning passion, the never-ending, chaotic and serendipitous manner of finding one’s way, the need to look and be open for the unknown, and the scarcity of like-minded musicians (even this writer was captured in a brief scene, attempting to compare the state of mind of the free improviser as described by the artist with the Buddhist notion of emptiness). As a kind of summary of her art, he states: “improvisation is life.”

Christine Baudillon (director)

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Documentary: Charlie Haden – Rambling Boy

18:00 continuously in de Bibliotheek, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

A documentary film by Reto Caduff.

Throughout his career, Haden has constantly sought to transcend the boundaries of modern music. Widely considered to be among the greatest ever jazz bassists, Haden has contributed pivotal music to a stunning scope of genres: avant-garde, small group, big band, world music, folk and gospel, to name but a few.

Haden’s deep resonance and rich melodicism helped Ornette Coleman introduce free jazz in the ‘60s. And it was his collaboration with Coleman that has put Haden on the map since then. In a career spanning five decades, Haden continues to create music that is at once revolutionary and uplifting.

He later led the Liberation Music Orchestra and formed his own Quartet West. Furthermore, he collaborated with jazz greats like Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny and many others. His latest album titled Rambling Boy looks back at the americana and bluegrass he heard as a child on the radio.

From the get-go it was clear for both director and subject that the film had to go beyond the generic filmed music story: an intimate look at the music and life of one of the most inspiring and influential jazz musicians. With access to Haden’s own personal archive, film sequences shot during concerts and recording sessions, interviews with an incredible selection of friends and collaborators and great archival footage, the documentary will please diehard jazz fans as well as the newly initiated.

• www.charliehadenfilm.com

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Françoise Vanhecke, More than a voice…Much more

17:50 & 19:30 Mezzanine – Foyer, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Françoise Vanhecke, more than a voice..much more. She is a ‘soprano’ with many aspects. She is a contemporay, daring, power performing & creative artist.

Françoise Vanhecke is a versatile soprano, vocal artist, pianist, actress, vocal coach, as well as a composer (Irma Bilbao). She has perfected her art among top international artists and has been awarded with a number of varied prizes. She has performed in concerts throughout the world, working closely with composers. She is praised for her interpretations of contemporary music and invited invited to appear in modern works from song to opera. She is also a wonderful improvisator. She recieved a golden Palm at the Concorso Finale in Ligure (Italy) and the Orpheus competition reward for contemporary chamber music. She is a well known as the interpreter of Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. Her first performance of this work was under the baton of Peter Eötvös at the Bartok Festival in Szombathehy, Hungary. Henceforth she performed Pierrot Lunaire throughout Europe and Brasil. She made several recordings of contemporary music for many different labels. In 2003 Françoise Vanhecke recieved a grant from the New York Women Composers Association. As a vocal coach she gives masterclasses all over the world.

Programma:
Cage, Aria
Berio, Sequenza III
Cathy Berberian, Stripsody

Françoise Vanhecke (vocals)

• www.francoisevanhecke.be

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Sophie Alour – Jozef Dumoulin – Dré Pallemaerts

18:00 Concertzaal, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

In collaboration with the Tourcoing Jazz Festival the Jazz & Sounds Festival presents the opportunity for a French and a Belgian musician to work out something together, a creation as it’s called in musical terminology. The French saxophonist Sophie Alour developed ideas together with Belgian pianist Jozef Dumoulin: a project for the two festivals with drummer Dré Pallemaerts invited to strengthen the whole.

The young French saxophonist Sophie Alour started playing saxophone at age 19 after she had earlier focused on the clarinet. In 2000 she played in a sextet which included among others Stéphane Belmondo and later was in Le Vintage Orchestra. She founded her own quartet and she won the France’s Django D’or for young talent in 2007.

Fender Rhodes pianist Jozef Dumoulin is a specialist well known as one of the most active Belgian jazz musicians. He plays in bands like Octurn, Mâäk’s Spirit, Othin Spake and Lidlboj. Drummer Dre Pallemaerts hardly needs an introduction. He became one of the faces of Belgian jazz and also feels perfectly at home on the French jazz scene.

Co-production Tourcoing Jazz Festival and Jazz & Sounds Festival.
p(credits). Sophie Alour (saxophone), Jozef Dumoulin (keyboards & Fender Rhodes), Dré Pallemaerts (drums)

• www.myspace.com/sophiealour
• www.myspace.com/jozefdumoulin
• www.myspace.com/drepallemaerts

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Ernst Reijseger

20:00 Kraakhuis, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

For some musicians, a career as a soloist is something they may plan towards the end of their career. It may be seen as a separate effort, a challenge to see whether one can manage to go it alone on a stage. Others however are born soloists. To be performing single is a pleasure for them, just playing unaccompanied is something natural. Ernst Reijseger belongs to this latter category.

Reijseger is one with his cello. The instrument sticks to his body and he uses it as a percussion instrument. He handles it as a flamenco guitar without gimmick but with a great sense of musicality which he controls to perfection. When Reijseger plays a cello sonata by Bach with the bow inverted he is not trying to be funny, though it can seem amusing or blasphemous. He does this because he thinks the sonata also sounds nice that way.

Besides being an inspired soloist, Ernst Reijseger is a great improviser. The melodies swirl through his head; when he switches from one technology to another, smooth musical lines are interspersed with fiery pizzicatos. His training as a classical cellist, came through lessons with Anner Bijlsma, one of the most accomplished cello players ever. This allows him to deal with all those different worlds in a very creative way, much to the delight of listeners.

Ernst Reijseger (cello)

• www.ernstreijseger.com

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Re:new Music

20:00 Auditorium, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

The SPECTRA Ensemble conducted by Filip Rathé.

D’un rêve parti: lost dream or rave party?

The SPECTRA Ensemble performs work by two composers with roots in the improvisation scene: ‘D’un Rêve Parti’ by Bruno Mantovani refers to a rave party whereas Alexandros Markeas’ ‘Zapping’ is a dialogue between a solo percussionist and his video-mirror image. In ‘The tool from light’ by Grzegorz Duchnowski and in ‘Spiegelbilder’ by Isabel Mundry the russian bayan is the main instrument. These works are part of the European Re:new music project.

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B3B: Fred Van Hove/ Wilbert de Joode / Barry Guy

20:00 Toegangsgebouw, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Three shrewd musicians together in an equally unusual and adventurous combination.

Fred Van Hove (B, 1937) belongs to a select little group of musical pioneers who put the new improvised music on the world map in the sixties and seventies and has since then continued to reinvent musical forms of expression.

He formed part of the historic trio with Peter Brötzmann and Han Bennink, put together an endless series of pairs (Braxton, Mangelsdorff, Lacy…), and was the revolutionary force behind the Werkgroep Improviserende Musici (Working Group of Improvising Musicians) and the Free Music Festival. In the U.S. and Japan, he is invariably described as “legendary” but in his own country he is all too rarely heard.

Barry Guy (UK, 1947) has been walking the fine line between composition and improvisation for over 40 years now. His interest extends from early music to improvised. He was a companion during the early days of Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Co. and the man behind the impressive London Jazz Composers Orchestra, now theBarryGuyNewOrchestra.

In 1988 he played a prominent role in the historic festival with pianist Cecil Taylor in Berlin.

Wilbert de Joode (NL, 1955) is among the cream of the crop on the adventurous Amsterdam scene. He’s known to many as the permanent bassist of the ensembles of Michiel Braam, Ab Baars and Eric Boeren. The powerful and distinct sound of his bass (with gut strings) graced numerous international collaborations, including some with Ken Vandermark, and closer to home, Bart Maris.

All three are known for their compelling solo concerts. Now Fred Van Hove has united them in this unique trio displaying an unprecedented abundance of strings.

Fred Van Hove (piano), Wilbert de Joode (double bass), Barry Guy (double bass)

• www.barryguy.com
• http://home.tiscali.nl/wilbertdejoode/

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Project El Negocito Records/Logos: human and machine

20:00 Bibliotheek, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

El Negocito is a Belgian label for alternative improvised music and a spin off of club/café El Negocito based in Ghent. This particular project is all about the interaction between an active musician on the new label and a musical machine of the Logos Foundation. On Saturday and Sunday 2 different duos are presented. The form in which these meetings take place resembles a workspace of rapprochement not necessarily built on a harmonious plan but which unfolds itself through the 2 facets of human and machine. The way to deal with this game, or call it research, can be very intuitive especially if improvisation is the key approach. The quest for sound is similar to pure reason, a language that remains cryptic but understandable to everyone. The musicians involved are Giovanni Barcella, Eli Van De Vondel, Manolo Cabras en Daniel Pastene.

Giovanni Barcella is an extravagant Italian jazz drummer based in Ghent. He represents a poetic perspective on the necessity of jazz as a dissident force, jazz which reacts to the problematic view of most music we hear. Eli Van de Vondelis, is not only the founder of CiCiliC Record, Mahaworks and a lot of other initiatives, he is also a sensitive left-handed guitar player who always explores the ways to drop the ego in order to benefit the whole. He tries to create time, space and opportunities in which his personal music visions can develop and are liberated and freed from commercial oppression, stereotypical aesthetics and common habits. Manolo Cabras was born in Cagliari and studied classical violin at the conservatory where he learned to compose in an experimental way. With the lapse of time he swapped the violin for a burly double bass and made the change-over from classical music to jazz. Daniel Pastene initially studied clarinet for 3 years in Chile with Francisco Gouet and then enrolled at Ghent University College Faculty of Music where he got his master’s degree in advanced composition.

Foundation Logos has been involved for forty years with the production of experimental music and sound art. With Ghent as a homebase, Foundation Logos travels around the world with performances such as Logos Duo, a pneumaphone project and the M&M Orchestra. The showpieces are 43 musical robots which interact with their surroundings via all sorts of sensors. These unique instruments were designed and developed by Godfried-Willem Raes and are considered to be some of the most sophisticated music robots worldwide. For this performance some robots will create music together with the musicians. Composers/programmers Kristof Lauwers, Troy Rogers and Yvan Vander Sanden take care of the technical production of this project.

Giovanni Barcella (drums), Eli Van de Vondel (guitar), Manolo Cabras (double bass), Daniel Pastene (clarinet)

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h3(#cheiron). Cheiron Trio

21:10 Toegangsgebouw, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

The Cheiron trio (Valerie Vereecke, clarinet; Eline Duerinck, cello & Alexander Vangaever, piano) with ‘Bajadillas’ by Frank Nuyts.

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Improvisation by Alexandros Markeas & Mathias Koole

21:30 Toegangsgebouw, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Improvisation piano-guitar by Alexandros Markeas & Mathias Koole for Re:new Music and Manama Spectra Ictus.

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Improvisation-workshop Joëlle Léandre

21:30 Toegangsgebouw, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

This event has been rescheduled: Fri 26.03 in Vooruit.

Students of Classical Music and Jazz of the University College Ghent Conservatory directed by Joëlle Léandre.

Joëlle Léandre, master improviser in Jazz as well as Contemporary music, presents the results of week’s workshop.

French double bass player, improviser and composer, Joëlle Léandre is one of the dominant figures of the new European music. She has played with some of the great names in jazz and improvisation, such as Anthony Braxton and John Zorn. She equally worked with important figures in the contemporary music scene such as Pierre Boulez and John Cage. On Jazz & Sounds she will present the results of a week’s workshop on improvisation with conservatory students classical music and jazz.

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Miroslav Vitous ‘Remembering Weather Report’

22:00 Concertzaal, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Miroslav Vitous looks back on his early days in the influential fusion band Weather Report.

Vitous began playing violin at a young age, then switched over to the piano but eventually chose the double bass. In the mid 60s he moved to New York where he quickly became part of the vibrant New York scene.

Composer and bassist Miroslav Vitous is known mainly as a co-founder of the fusion band Weather Report together with Wayne Shorter and Joe Zaniwul. Weather Report was in the 70s popular with their mix of jazz, latin jazz, funk, rock and R&B.

Last year he released the album Remembering Weather Report. He said the following about the album: ’’This album was created in memory of my time with Weather Report. The intention is not to play Weather Report repertoire, but to play new material under the concept that I brought in the group in 1970. Namely, direct conversation and equality between the instruments.” The material on the album, with the exception of his variations on Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman”, are composed by Vitous, including tributes to Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter.

Nowadays his quartet is formed by tenor saxophonist Gary Campbell, Franco Ambrosetti on trumpet and Gerald Cleaver on drums.

The newspaper De Standaard described the sound of the quartet on the album Remembering Weather Report as follows: In Vitous Quartet grows a kind of free conversation, in which he emerges as a virtuoso on bowed bass. The tenor sax of Gary Campbell, Gerald Cleavers crispy drums and the clarion-like trumpet lines of Franco Ambrosetti all sound inspired. (The Standaard).

Miroslav Vitous (double bass), Gary Campbell (tenor saxophone), Franco Ambrosetti (trumpet), Gerald Cleaver (drums)

• www.miroslavvitous.com

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