Tony Overwater Trio & Calefax Reed Quintet
Biographies
The Tony Overwater Trio consist of three top jazz musicians, centred around one of Holland’s finest bass players. This gifted musician, who a/o played with Sunny Murray, David Murray, Paulo Fresu and Pat Metheny and who is a member of the renowned Yuri Honing Trio, is also a highly acclaimed composer contributing to documentaries and ballets. Overwater’s musical interest ranges from jazz to improvised and world music. In 2000 the Tony Overwater Trio featuring flugelhorn player Ack van Rooyen and cellist Ernst Reyseger, create quite a stir when they release their Edison (Dutch Grammy) awarded album OP, a tribute to bassist Oscar Pettiford. In 2003 Overwater receives the VPRO/Boy Edgar Prize, thé Dutch jazz award.
Calefax Reed Quintet, founded in 1985, can be described as a classical ensemble with a ‘pop mentality’ and is known for its virtuoso performances, innovative programming and engaging concerts. The group performs standing up, often from memory, and always introduces itself and the program to the audience. And most importantly, the five musicians arrange, recompose and interpret music from eight centuries to suit their unique line-up. Early music, renaissance, baroque, impressionism, jazz, or world premières, in the hands of Calefax it all sounds fresh and new. Calefax is recognized internationally for the quality of its ensemble-playing. The quintet tours throughout Europe and performs both at new music forums and prestigious early music festivals. Their ever-growing discography (MDG) consistently gets enthusiastic reactions from the international music press.
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Ellington Suites reviewed
Press quotes
I can full-heartedly recommend this CD for your collection of Ellingtonia
- International Duke Ellington Music Society Bulletin
The best thing that has happened to the repertoire of Ellington (since the memorable Strayhorn performances by the Dutch Jazz Orchestra)
- Jazzmozaïek
Eine musikalische Genuss der Extra-Klasse
- Online Musik Magazin
Delightfully fresh, optimistic and still slightly melancholy
- Parool
Ellington hätte gewiss seine Freude gehabt
- Stereo
Beautiful arrangements
- Vrij Nederland
Contemporary and still authentic
- Rotterdams Dagblad
An astonishing CD
- NRC
Sensible interpretation of Ellington’s suites
- Volkskrant
In short: an extremely clever and recommendable album
- Doctor Jazz Magazine
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