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Michiel Braam
Awards
1988 - Podiumprize for young talented musicians (NL) 1997 - Boy Edgar Prize (NL)
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Bo Van de Graaf: Off the Record: Eccentric Music for Audio Hunters
by Karl Ackermann
ToonDist is a Netherlands-based consortium of small independent labels distributing the creative and improvised music of their country. Founded in 2002, ToonDist is often the point of departure for unknown labels such as No Can Do Music and Pingo, and emerging ones like TryTone and Evil Rabbit. The closest ToonDist comes to convention" may be the AVA Trio, The Core Trio live featuring Matthew Shipp (Evil Rabbit, 2016), or a book of Misha Mengelberg scores. At the outer edge we ...
read moreFlex Bent Braam: Lucebert
by Vincenzo Roggero
Lucebert fu pittore e poeta olandese, particolarmente influenzato dal movimento d'avanguardia denominato Cobra, oltre che grande appassionato di jazz. Da un suo telegramma, il cui contenuto consisteva in una semplice lista di standard, prende spunto l'idea di questo album nel quale agli otto brani noti il leader Michiel Braam affianca altrettante composizioni originali. Ad eseguirli un settetto denominato Flex Bent Braam, la nuova creatura musicale del pianista olandese formata da una costola di Bik Bent Braam, orchestra ...
read moreFlex Bent Braam: Lucebert
by Eyal Hareuveni
The new group of Dutch pianist Michiel Braam, the 8-piece Flex Bent Braam, is a scaled-down continuation of Braam's 13-piece Bik Bent Braam, one of Braam's main projects in the last twenty five years, a group that evolved from traditional big band to a flexible improvising unit, but it is also an attempt to challenge his skills as a composer, bandleader and musical thinker. The line-up of the new band is supposed to change on every new project, combining such ...
read moreMichiel Braam: Change This Song and Hosting Changes
by AAJ Staff
By Fred Bouchard Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher Change This Song BBB 2006 Michiel Braam's Wurli Trio Hosting Changes BBB 2006
Two threesomes led by Dutch pianist Michiel Braam show this eclectic adventurer in appealing settings: glib and fleet in an electric studio setting, more intellectually probing on baby grand. Braam ...
read morePartnered by powerhouse bassist Wilbert de Joode and drummer extraordinaire Michael Vatcher. With these two behind him all the way it's no wonder Braam delivers some of the most confident and enjoyable piano work I've heard in recent years.
--Dan Warborton, Paris Transatlantic
If anyone needs proof of the vitality of Dutch jazz, he (or she) needs look no further than Bik Bent Braam. The 13-piece band features a splendid collection of players, so the level of improvisation is unquestionably superb. So are the compositions and arrangements by Braam, which take this to a rare level of performance. For those attracted to adventurous, eclectic arrangements that span the spectrum from swing to free jazz, performed by extraordinary musicians, this one is a winner.