Amateur Dentist Joris Roelofs
Album info
Album-Release:
2016
HRA-Release:
08.01.2016
Label: Pirouet Records
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Artist: Joris Roelofs
Composer: Joris Roelofs
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- 1 Snakes and Eagles 07:15
- 2 Broadway 06:00
- 3 Pseudo Bebop 01:16
- 4 Para Poli 07:28
- 5 Funebre 07:56
- 6 Amateur Dentist 01:21
- 7 Twerp 06:15
- 8 Samurai Curtain 03:23
- 9 Such Sweet Thunder 05:37
- 10 Kyrie and Gloria 05:35
Info for Amateur Dentist
Der niederländische Musiker Joris Roelofs wechselte seit 2010 vom Saxofon zur Bassklarinette. Er ist seit geraumer Zeit ein gefragter Sidemen u.a. bei Brad Meldau, Aaron Goldberg, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Matthias Schriefl, Sonny Fortune. Er ist der erste Nichtamerikaner der 2003 den Stan Getz/Clifford Brown Fellowship Award erhielt und die IAJE kürte sein Spiel mit dem First Level-Preis. Auszeichungen wie der PIM Jacobs Preis, der Deloitte Jazz Award 2004 und weitere folgten. Seine zweite Veröffentlichung „Amateur Dentist' erscheint nun beim Label Pirouet Records.
Für seinen Erstling 2014 („Aliens Deliberating') erhielt Roelofs begeisterte Kritiken mit Lob wie „faszinierende Magie', „Meisterwerk' und der Feststellung: „Hier reift ein Neuer, vielleicht bald schon ganz Großer'. Die neue CD, wieder mit den Partnern Matt Penman, Bass, und Ted Poor, Schlagzeug, präsentiert die erstaunliche Klangvielfalt des Trios in noch feineren Nuancen. Zwei tiefe Melodie-Instrumente und ein Schlagzeug: Schillernde Schönheiten lässt diese nur scheinbar spartanische Besetzung entstehen. „Bass und Bassklarinette verzahnen sich jetzt noch mehr im Wechsel von Solo und Begleitung', sagt Roelofs und schwärmt, welche „riesigen dynamischen Unterschiede' man mit Penman und Poor realisieren könne, die in den USA leben und zu den Stars ihres Instruments gehören. Eigenkompositionen und Stücke von Duke Ellington und Alexander Skrjabin kommen auf „Amateur Dentist' vor. Sie gehen auf in Musik mit Drive, Swing und überspringender Spiellust. Musik, die berührt, Spaß macht und überrascht.
Joris Roelofs, Bassklarinette
Matt Penman, Bass
Ted Poor, Schlagzeug
Joris Roelofs
born February 21, 1984 in Aix-en-Provence (France), raised in Amsterdam (Netherlands), plays saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet. He started to play classical clarinet at the age of six, and then started the alto saxophone at the age of twelve. He was a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra from 2005 2010. Joris also plays lead alto in the Jazz Orchestra Of The Concertgebouw in the Netherlands.
He graduated in 2007 as a Master of Music at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In 2001 Joris won the Pim Jacobs Price.
In 2003 he received, as a first non-American, the Stan Getz/Clifford Brown Fellowship Award in the US, organized by the International Association Of Jazz Education (IAJE). The IAJE also honored him with a First Level price. In 2004 Joris received the first price of the prestigious Deloitte Jazz Award in the Netherlands.
In 2008 he was selected for the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition.
Among others, Joris played with Brad Mehldau, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Christina Branco, Lionel Loueke, Eric Harland, Lewis Nash, Aaron Goldberg, Ralph Peterson, James Carter, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, WDR Big Band, Ari Hoenig, Matt Penman. In 2010 he was asked by Brad Mehldau to perform with him at the Carnegie Hall in New York and Sanders Theatre in Boston, along with Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Chris Cheek, Greg Tardy, Sam Sadigursky, Timothy Andres and Becca Stevens. In a Dutch TV show, at age 16, Joris performed the famous clarinet introduction of Gershwins Rhapsody In Blue with the Orkest van het Oosten, and was featured as a soloist with the Jazz Orchestra Of The Concertgebouw.
Also he recorded as a special clarinet soloist with the Metropole Orchestra with Laura Fygi (2004). As a leader he performed several times at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Smalls Jazz Club in NYC, among other places. In October 2008 he did a European release tour with Ari Hoenig, Aaron Goldberg and Johannes Weidenmueller to promote his debute album Introducing Joris Roelofs. In 2009 and 2010 Joris did a quartet tour in Europe with Aaron Goldberg, Reginald Veal, Joe Sanders, Greg Hutchinson.
Joris also plays in the Chambertones Trio, with Jesse van Ruller and Clemens van der Feen. They released two albums: Chamber Tones and The Ninth Planet, and did a release tour in Japan for each album. Joris last CD Live At The Bimhuis was released in 2011 and was nominated for a Edison in 2012. He founded another trio in 2011 with Ted Poor and Matt Penman, featuring Joris on bass clarinet. They did a tour in 2011 and 2013, and their new album will be released in January. As a sideman Joris has played at a large number of international jazz festivals and jazz clubs, all over the world. He moved to New York City in March 2008, and moved back to Amsterdam in 2011.
Booklet for Amateur Dentist