Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

18:00 continuously, Bibliotheek – Docu The Herman Leonard Story
18:00 Concertzaal – Ellery Eskelin / Andrea Parkins / Jim Black with Jessica Constable & Philippe Gelda
19:20 Bibliotheek, Foyer, Mezzanine & Rotonde – A Marvelous Madness: John Cage’s Songbooks
20:00 Kraakhuis – Wolter Wierbos
20:00 Auditorium – Tom Van Bauwel – Ben Sluijs : Paul Van Ostaijen
20:00 Toegangsgebouw – Janssens / Prins – …Passages…/ Ventriloquium
20:00 Bibliotheek – Project El Negocito Records/Logos: human and machine
21:30 Kraakhuis – The little Harlequin
22:00 Concertzaal – Enescu re-Imagined by Lucian Ban & John Hébert

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Documentary: Truth in Terms of Beauty – The Herman Leonard Story

from 18:00 onwards continuously, Bibliotheek, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

The film Truth in Terms of Beauty, The Herman Leonard Story is a poetic documentary about the life and work of the famous (jazz) photographer Herman Leonard.

Herman Leonard was for more than half a century, the privileged witness and photographer of the icons of society and fashion, but is most of all known for his photographs of the giants in the jazz scene.

In the 30s he toured Russia, the Middle East and Asia as a reporter for Life Magazine and National Geographic. After the Second World War he arrived in New York and became immersed in the world of bebop. During this period, he captured unique moments of all the jazz greats: Billy Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Errol Garner, Lena Horne, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Quincy Jones and Miles Davis.

He photographed Hollywood stars like Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and Marilyn Monroe and was one of the pioneers of nude photography for Playboy.

In the ‘50s he travelled to Paris and was praised as a photographer for fashion houses like Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Christian Dior and magazines like Elle and Marie Claire. In Paris he became a celebrity himself and he got in touch with philosophers, writers and scientists who he photographed such as Albert Einstein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Through Eddie Barclay he ended up back in the music scene. This led to unusual portraits of people like Charles Aznavour, Brigitte Bardot and Grace Jones. In the past ten years, Herman Leonard has lived in New Orleans, where he photographed people from the contemporary music scene such as Lenny Kravitz, Dr. John and Wynton Marsalis.

• www.hermanleonard.com

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Ellery Eskelin / Andrea Parkins / Jim Black with Jessica Constable & Philippe Gelda

18:00 Concertzaal, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Ellery Eskelin searched for Andrea Perkins (accordion & keyboards) and Jim Black (drums & percussion) in order to satisfy a “sound he heard in his head”. He debuted with these two musicians in 1994 and the band quickly became one of the finest units in progressive jazz and improvised music.

Eskelin was raised in a musical environment in Baltimore. His mother, Bobbie Lee, played the Hammond B3 organ and lead her own jazz bands in the sixties. He started playing the tenor saxophone at the age of ten. From that moment it was already clear to him that he wanted to be a jazz musician and he began performing professionally while he was still in school. In 1983 Eskelin moved to New York City to play and study. In the late 80s he appeared in Europe with the band Joint Venture and later he joined Joey Baron’s group Baron Down. Along the way Eskelin has done a number of side projects with Han Bennink, Dave Liebman, Marc Ribot, Sylvie Courvoisier, etc.

Most albums by the trio Eskelin/Parkins/Black were released on the Swiss hatHut record label that focuses on jazz, improv and contemporary music.

During European concerts, including this concert at Jazz & Sounds Festival, the trio often invites guest artists Like Philippe Gelda (vocals & keyboards) and Jessica Constable (vocals).

Ellery Eskelin (saxophone), Andrea Parkins (accordion & keyboards), Jim Black (drums & percussion), Jessica Constable (vocals), Philippe Gelda (vocals & piano)

• www.home.earthlink.net/~eskelin

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A Marvelous Madness: John Cage’s Songbooks

19:20 Bibliotheek – Foyer – Mezzanine & Rotonde, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Students of the song-class of the University College Ghent Conservatory directed Mireille Capelle.

A kaleidoscope of music theatrical vocal inventiveness.

Song Books (Solos for Voice 3-92, 1970) is a collection of short works by John Cage. It contains pieces of four kinds: songs or directions for a theatrical performance, both with or without electronics. The work explores a very wide variety of notation systems. Some Solos are given in standard notation, others employ a special brand of graphical notation (circles, lines, dots). Certain Solos consist only of instructions to the performer, i.e. what he or she should do and how.

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Wolter Wierbos

20:00 Kraakhuis, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Wolter Wierbos is considered one of the world’s leading trombone players and is a true improvisator. Like many Dutch brass players Wierbos started out in a ‘fanfare’ (brass band), switching from trumpet to trombone when he was 17. “It looked good, and the trombones generally walk in front….”

His interests range from precise chamber jazz to throbbing post punk and contemporary composed and improvised music. Besides his solo career he is currently active with Misha Mengelberg’s ICP, Available Jelly, Sean Bergin’s MOB, Gerry Hemingway Quintet, Sunchild with Franky Douglas, Bik Bent Braam, Albrecht Maurer Trio Works, Longrun Development of the Universe with Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Frank Gratkowski Quartet and the Double Quartet.

He also leads his own label, Dolfijn Records, the first release was 3 trombone solos recorded in Chicago, Portland and Amsterdam

In July 2009 he released Deining, with recordings of a series of boat concerts (duo recordings with Ab Baars, Wilbert de Joode, Franky Douglas and a trio with Mary Oliver and Han Bennink).

Wolter Wierbos (trombone)

• www.wolterwierbos.nl

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Tom Van Bauwel – Ben Sluijs : Paul Van Ostaijen

20:00 Auditorium, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Tom Van Bauwel surrenders to the passion of Paul Van Ostaijen’s swinging texts, full of rhythm and musicality, together with the lyrical saxophone cries of Ben Sluijs.

Tom Van Bauwel had his drama training in Antwerp. As an actor he played roles with Theatre Zuidpool, TOTheater and NTGent. He directed plays like Art by Yasmina Reza (Raamtheater), and HurlyBurly by David Rabe (Toneelhuis). A wider audience knows him for his television and film work. In 2008 he became artistic director of the Raamtheater now called BAFF.

Ben Sluijs is known as a bandleader and sideman in different groups known nationally as well as abroad. He often plays solo concerts or combinations of saxophone with spoken word or poetry with people like: Pjeroo Roobjee, Jan Decleir, Jules Deelder, Remco Campert, Hubert Daemen, Don Fabulist, Peter Holvoet, Elvis Peeters and Roger De Neef. Ben Sluijs is frequently described as one of the most poetic and lyrical jazz saxophonists in our country.

Tom Van Bauwel (poetry), Ben Sluijs (saxophone)

• www.bensluijs.be

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Janssens / Prins – …Passages…/ Ventriloquium (performed by: Nadar, Arsis4, Peter Jacquemyn en Jan Pillaert)

20:00 Toegangsgebouw, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Theme of jazz & sounds 2010 is the tension between written and improvised music. The detailed scores of composer Daan Janssens are always elaborated with few performance freedom. Stefan Prins on the other hand frequently uses free improvisation, or free impro instrumental techniques. Nadar, Arisis4, Peter Jacquemyn and Jan Pillaert perform …Passages…, a cycle of four compositions by composer Daan Janssens (°1983), and Ventriloquium by Stefan Prins, a search for relations between free improvisation schooled musicians, and a written ensemble with live electronics.

PROGRAMME :
Peter JACQUEMYN (double bass) en Jan PILLAERT (tuba) improvisation
Daan JANSSENS:
Passages…(2005-2008) Passages… (2005/rev.2008) – for string quartet (First performance of the revised version) Tableau – double – (passages II) (2005/2006) – for violoncello solo D’un automne étendu (2007/2008) – for string quartet (…nuit cassée.) (2006/2007) – for viola solo and four instruments
- Stefan PRINS: Ventriloquium (2006) for e-guitar, percussion, violoncello, two improvising musicians and live electronics.

ARSIS4
ARSIS4 Arsis4 consists of four young string players who have for the last three years been intensively working together. They have studied at the conservatories of Antwerp and Brussels and received. Further coaching of top level musicians like Andreas Keller and Heime Müller. They attended master classes with the Artis Quartet, The Prazak and the Danel Quartet. From last season on, Arsis4 is studying with the Artemis Quartet at Brussels Queen Elisabeth Chapel. During the last three years they have been working under the name B!LINDMAN [strings]. From the 2009-2010 season onwards, they shall go their own way as Arsis4.

Pieter Jansen en Liesbeth Baelus (viool) – Florian Peelman (altviool) – Romek Maniewski (cello)

NADAR

The Nadar Ensemble was founded in 2006 by some young Flemish musicians, graduated from various conservatories, with a common passion for contemporary music. What the ensemble would like to share with the real ‘Nadar’ – pseudonym of the well-known photographer, balloonist, caricaturist, art critic and even spy Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910) – is his adventurous and multidisciplinary mind. Nadar’s main repertoire is the work of the youngest Flemish and international generation composers, as Simon Steen-Andersen (°1976), Martin Schüttler (°1974), Stefan Prins (°1979)…

Nadar: Valerie Vereecke (klarinet) – Matthias Koole (e-gitaar) – Yves Goemaere (percussie) – Elisa Medinilla (piano) – Jan Pillaert (tuba & impro) – Marijn Thissen (altviool) – Pieter Matthynssens (cello) – Jacquemyn (contrabas & impro) – Stefan Prins (live-electronics) – Daan Janssens (dirigent)

• www.nadarensemble.be
• www.arsis4.be
• www.daanjanssens.be
• www.stefanprins.be
• www.jacquemyn.com

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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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The little Harlequin

21:30 Kraakhuis, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Dancing the clarinet away

Stockhausen’s ‘Little Harlequin’ is a music-theatrical piece for dancing clarinet player. Harlequin’s dancing footsteps are heard throughout the piece. The rhythms of the ever changing formula at first become jumpy. Soon, however, they become interspersed with softly phrased legato playing. The formula fragments become quite sporadic when Harlequin “becomes so infatuated in the dancing that he forgets more and more often to play the notes”. Harlequin is absorbed in his dance.

Rik De Geyter (klarinet solo)

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Enescu re-Imagined by Lucian Ban & John Hébert

22:00 Concertzaal, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Pianist Lucian Ban revised the musical legacy of Romanian composer George Enesco and created a bold contemporary jazz composition.

Ban gathered an impressive group of musicians from the New York jazz scene around him for this project with John Hebert on bass, Nasheet Waits on drums, Tony Malaby on saxophones, Mat Maneri and Albrecht Maurer on violin, Ralph Alessi on trumpet and Badal Roy on percussion and tabla.

Working on the edge of classical, jazz, downtown improv and contemporary music, the ensemble re-orchestrates and re-interprets scores from George Enesco’s impressive body of work – from the famous “3rd Sonata for Violin & Piano in Romanian Folk Character” to the unfinished “4th Symphony” to the various chamber pieces and the larger orchestral works of this 20th century Romanian composer.

George Enesco was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher. At a young age he went to the Conservatory in Vienna. Later he moved to Paris, to receive further education in composition. He remained in Paris until his death in 1955. He was a much sought after violin instructor and gave lessons to people like Yehudi Menuhin. His works often have a strong Romanian character. In particular, his First Romanian Rhapsody became famous. His opera Oedipe can be seen as his greatest work and he was a prolific composer of songs including chamber and piano music.

Lucian Ban (piano), John Hebert (double bass), Ralph Alessi (trumpet), Tony Malaby (tenor- & soprano saxophone), Albrecht Maurer (violin), Mat Maneri (viola), Nasheet Waits (drums), Badal Roy (tabla & percussion)
In collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute.

• www.lucianban.com
• www.johnhebert.com

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