Other Groups

Bite the Gnatze

The Dutch guitarist and banjo player Paul Pallesen started the band Bite the Gnatze in 1995 to make exciting music inspired by jazz, Dutch/European folkmusic, country & western and instant composing. There is always an open approach to the arrangements which makes the music unpredictable and free.

Wisselend Toonkwintet

Dimami meets Buis

The trio Dimami invited Joost Buis as a guest for a series of concerts. A cd has been recorded in February 2010 and will be released in the fall. Beginning of 2011 there will be a tour in Holland.

Getatchew Mekurya & The Ex & guests

Getatchew Mekuria is the most revered veteran of the Ethiopian saxophone. He is a real giant, both physically and musically. In his seventies, he is still in full voice, with his own, powerfully distinctive style of playing. His huge vibrato, both forceful and fragile, plays around the vocal lines, using typical Ethiopian embellishments. He started playing in 1947 in the Addis Abeba Municipal Band, then in the Haile Selassie Theatre Orchestra and the Police Orchestra. He also backed up all the famous Ethiopian singers. He is the inventor of a musical style called the Shellele, which originates from an heroic war-chant, translated to the saxophone. When he plays it, he dons a lion's mane and cuts loose with furious solos that are a kind of free jazz, from before free jazz existed. Getatchew's melodies and solos mesh with The Ex's rhythms, noise and vocals, supported by a guest horn section, like they were made for each other!

Spinifex Tuba Band