Joris Roelofs & Han Bennink: Icarus (ICP 059/060, 2018)

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	1.	Carmen 03:15
	2.	Guidi 02:26
	3.	Something Sweet, Something Tender 02:35
	4.	Rondo 2 03:22
	5.	Die Alte Perücke 01:25
	6.	Gustav 1 02:45
	7.	Icarus 04:17
	8.	This is New 03:01
	9.	Rondo 1 02:39
	10.	Gustav 2 03:50
	11.	Bahbachbah 02:59
	12.	Broad Stripes and Bright Stars 03:31
	13.	The Old Wig 01:12
	14.	Song for Che 03:12

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Joris Roelofs: bass clarinet, Bb clarinet
Han Bennink: drums, balk, C clarinet, piano

"French-born, Amsterdam-based clarinetist Joris Roelofs has built his career balancing intense discipline and deep commitment to post-bop tradition with a measured exploratory streak. He’s worked extensively in the Vienna Art Orchestra and he maintains a wonderfully buoyant trio with the American rhythm section of Ted Poor and Matt Penman. But this new recording suggests that his attraction to freedom is growing stronger. Icarus is a lovely duo project with the veteran free jazz drummer Han Bennink, a perfect match for the reedist. The percussionist is both a master of chaos and one of the most naturally swinging musicians on the planet, and he provides both grounding and provocation to his much younger associate.

Most of the music is freely improvised and the album opens with a blast of disorder on “Carmen,” with Bennink banging out piano clusters and injecting some discordant cymbal explosions, while Roelofs blows harsh squawks. Suddenly a wild gear-shift occurs and a tender, breathy melody that sounds like a lost standard and a loping, rumbling groove takes over, indicating the sort of polarities that the pair giddily explore throughout. The clarinetist’s lyric gifts are so strong that when the duo tackle jazz standards like Eric Dolphy’s “Something Sweet, Something Tender”--presented with an attractively slack drag from Bennink that deftly adds tension to the in-and-out-of-focus treatment of the theme--or Charlie Haden’s indelible “Song for Che,” they feel entirely of a piece with the spontaneous creations. Icarus captures an electric dialogue: raw, giddy, trusting. Here’s hoping this conversation continues." Peter Margasak

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released November 17, 2023

Something Sweet, Something Tender composed by Eric Dolphy. This is New composed by Kurt Weill. Song for Che composed by Charlie Haden. All other compositions by Joris Roelofs and Han Bennink. Recorded by Marc Schots and Mathijn den Duijf at Studio Kytopia in Utrecht on April 9th & 10th 2018, using a Studer A80 1/2” 2-track tape machine. Artwork by Han Bennink. Graphic design by Emma Fischer. Photo artwork by Pieter Boersma.

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From ragtime to swing, composed pieces to improvisation, bop to free jazz, classical to carnivalesque, the ICP Orchestra continues to be at the forefront of the creative music that they have been so influential in founding, proliferating and supporting over the last five decades.

"Arguably the most dynamic, unpredictable and just-plain-fun jazz ensemble on any continent." - Boston Globe ... more

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