Rochester Internatinal Jazz Festival

Willem Breuker Kollektief

2005 I was sitting so close I couldn't possibly get all seven (three plus four) horn players in one shot. And there is a wildly inventive piano player back there with a bass player and drummer. This show was thrilling. They played for an hour straight running one piece into the other. They can sound like a German oom pah band, Spanish bull fighting music, an old world marching band or long hair music. Close your eyes and you feel like you are in the middle of a cartoon. And there is ample room for solos in these charts. And then there is humor like when the horn players drained their trumpets into their mute cups and doused the crowd. Tom Kohn from the Bop Shop has brought this band to town (from the Netherlands) ten times in the past so you may get another chance to see them. Don't miss it. Sophisticated and joyous, this band has it all and should be huge. What is wrong with this world? Never mind.

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