Floris Kappeyne

Spanish/Dutch horn player José Sogorb, 3rd Horn at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, releases Mélodies Volées, a multifaceted hommage to melody. ‘Voler’ means ‘stolen’ in French. Stealing a melody or (better) using its ‘DNA’, is a phenomenon which is from all times. To whom does a melody actually belong? On this sublimely versatile album José investigates this question. He does this in close relation with the splendid pianist Éadaoin Copeland on the majority of the program and featuring José’s RCO colleagues Miriam Pastor Burgos, Mark Braafhart and Rob Dirksen. On Mélodies Volées, you’ll be treated with impeccable horn playing with repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach, Schubert, Brahms, De Falla, Pärt, semi-improvised music, finalised by a freshly made arrangement of a Björk song that flows back again to Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (who was a contemporary of Bach).

Tijs Klaassen (1993) is one of the household names on the vibrant Amsterdam jazz scene. He picked up the double bass at the age of 19. He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and as part of an exchange studied in the US, taking private lessons with a.o. legendary Ron Carter. Adhocism is his 3rd quintet album (feat. Mo van der Does, Matthias Van den Brande, Floris Kappeyne and Wouter Kühne), this time blending electronics with acoustic instruments. Adhocism is a late 60s term from architecture, referring to a method characterized by actions and decisions chosen to fulfill immediate goals. It represents the instant decision making that improvising jazz musicians do all the time.

Tijs Klaassen (1993) is one of the household names on the vibrant Amsterdam jazz scene. He picked up the double bass at the age of 19. He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and as part of an exchange studied in the US, taking private lessons with a.o. legendary Ron Carter. Adhocism is his 3rd quintet album (feat. Mo van der Does, Matthias Van den Brande, Floris Kappeyne and Wouter Kühne), this time blending electronics with acoustic instruments. Adhocism is a late 60s term from architecture, referring to a method characterized by actions and decisions chosen to fulfill immediate goals. It represents the instant decision making that improvising jazz musicians do all the time.