Swart Waling Koolhaas Jesse Koolhaas, Joost Swart, Bjorn Waling

• 1 Six Shooter 06:56
• 2 Amalgam 08:05
• 3 In Tongues 05:38
• 4 Chewy 05:44
• 5 Intrinsicality 06:34
• 6 Repose 07:27
• Total Runtime 40:24

Info for Swart Waling Koolhaas

Sind Sie bereit für eine musikalische Reise, die Ihre Erwartungen herausfordert und Ihre Sinne anregt? Dann werden Sie das neue Album des Jazzpianisten Joost Swart, des Schlagzeugers Bjorn Waling und des Produzenten Jesse Koolhaas lieben. Das Album ist das Ergebnis einer zweitägigen Session, bei der sie ihre Improvisationen auf verschiedenen Instrumenten aufnahmen und sie dann mit den Klängen aus Jesse Koolhaas' Vintage-Synthesizer-Sammlung mischten. Das Ergebnis ist eine einzigartige Mischung aus Jazz und elektronischer Musik, die sich über Genres und Etiketten hinwegsetzt.

Auf dem Album sind mehrere Gastmusiker zu hören, die der Musik ihre eigene Note verleihen. Bei dem Stück In Tongues zum Beispiel hört man die Bassklarinette von Joris Roelofs und den Bass von Jeroen Vierdag, die einen reichen und tiefen Sound erzeugen. Auf einem anderen Stück, Six Shooter, kann man die Gitarre von Reinier Baas und den Bass von Jeroen Vierdag genießen, die der Musik etwas Groove und Funk verleihen. Das Album enthält auch Amalgam, einen Song, der die Synergie und Kreativität des Trios unter Beweis stellt.

Das Album ist ein musikalisches Abenteuer, das Sie mit seiner Vielfalt und seinem Reichtum überraschen und begeistern wird. Es ist ein Zeugnis für das Talent und die Vision dieser drei Künstler, die etwas Neues und Originelles geschaffen haben.

Joost Swart, Flügel, Fender Rhodes
Bjorn Waling, Schlagzeug
Jesse Koolhaas, Produktion, Synthesizer
Gastkünstler:
Reinier Baas, elektrische Gitarre (Track 1)
Jeroen Vierdag, E-Bass (Tracks 1, 3, 5)
Danny Keen, Gitarre (Track 2)
Joris Roelofs, Bassklarinette (Track 3)
Marc Planells, Ud (Track 6)

Jesse Koolhaas
(1979) has a Master of Music in composition and a Bachelor of Music in Sonology, as well as a degree in Audio Engineering. He is the founder of Mystic Brew.

Mystic Brew is an Amsterdam-based studio specializing in music, sound design, mixing, recording and the combination of these crafts. The studio's portfolio contains a wide variety of styles and genres, from commercial music projects for clients such as Nike and McDonald's to abstract work for audiovisual installations and modern dance. Regardless of the type of project, the emphasis is always on concept. Mystic Brew prefers to be part of your project at an early stage, because a soundtrack that connects at different levels makes the difference between a good end result and something you will remember.

Joost Swart
undoubtedly is the most interesting young pianist that came on the scene last few years” (Remco Takken, Dutch jazzcritic).

Joost, an outstanding improviser by nature, originally was trained as a classical pianist since the tender age of 8, but soon developed an interest for jazz and comtemporary music. After leaving highschool he immediately was admitted to the Conservatory of Groningen (The Netherlands), where during his study of jazz piano he was trained by the Dutch jazz elite, from Michiel Borstlap and Jasper van ‘t Hof, to Henk Meutgeert.

During his freshman year, Joost became founding member of the famous Francien van Tuinen Quintet. With this very talented Dutch jazz singer he recorded three original albums called “Tuindance” (1997), “Despina’s Eye” (2000) and “A Perfect Blue Day” (2004) on which he was credited both as composer, arranger and pianist.

After intensively touring the big Dutch stages with Francien and playing 5 times at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Joost took off to New York City where he ended up playing all across town with the great late trumpet player Manny Duran (Dizzy Gillespie’s Afro Jazz Orchestra). Highlights include performing at famous venues like “B.B. King’s Club” on Times Square, and for a long time hosting the weekly Saturday night jam sessions in club ‘Cleopatra’s Needle’ on Broadway, well known for its reputation as a hangout for jazz icons like Grady Tate, Steve Turre and Wynton Marsalis. During one of his gigs in New York, Joost drew the attention of alto saxophonist Vincent Herring who invited him to join his Quintet on a big European Tour in 2005, together with bassist Essiet Essiet and the great Jesse van Ruller on guitar.

Also in 2005 Joost released his highly anticipated debute album “Garnwerd Suite”, performed by his own group “Joost Swart TETRA”. The album received wide exposure in both national and international media, leading to numerous invitations to perform at jazz venues across Europe and establishing his name in the top of the international Jazz scene.

In 2008 Joost made a powerful addition to his discography with the release of the album “Symbiosis”, critically acclaimed by national and international critics. On this album Joost is the soloist in a 14-piece band playing an extraordinary and beautiful composition by Claus Ogerman: “Symbiosis”.

In 2010 a new trio was founded with Jeroen Vierdag on bass and Sebastiaan Kaptein on drums. The trio is called The Amsterdam Jazz Connection (A.J.C.) and is already an established name in Japan where they did numerous tours, and played from Okinawa to Tokyo and from Yokohama to Osaka. Their first release is recorded in the Alto café in Amsterdam with guest player Benjamin Herman. In 2014 a new studio album of the A.J.C. was released with special guest the rising young trumpet player Rik Mol who also joined the trio on one of their tours in Japan. In 2016 the trio invited singer Francien van Tuinen and guitarist Jesse van Ruller on their tour in Japan, and due to great succes together released the album “Broadway Serenade” in 2023.

Currently, besides being a highly in demand soloist in several established jazz groups like the Rik Mol Group, Ben van den Dungen Quartet, and the Tom Beek Quintet, Joost is working on a wide range of projects. Recent highlights include regular concerts among others with Ben van den Dungen, Benjamin Herman, Jesse van Ruller, John Engels, Hans Dulfer, Rick Margitza, Vincent Herring, Don Braden, Valery Ponomarev, Freddie Bryant and Ralph Peterson.

This album contains no booklet.