Ella And Louis Acoustic Sounds

[Meggan Shankman]

Originallya vocalist, Julia has recently also focused on playing guitar and percussion, making visual art (pen drawings, paintings, risoprints), but above all on composing her own music. She is currently releasing these arts in various forms and settings.

Julia Werner plays and sings in the folk-pop band Greener Grass, who was nominated for the Sublime Awards last year. She is also part of the vocal improvisation ensemble August 38th. Julia spent time in New York and India making music there. At Red Light Jazz she performs her compositions at the intersection of jazz, folk and pop music.

The inspiration for Same Moon is the idea that, whilst people may be in separate places geographically, they have shared truths: musical language, human experience, emotions. From our unique vantage points, we are all staring at the same moon. All four band members are featured on the album Same Moon in the Same World, alongside famous jazz musicians such as Linda May Han Oh, Kendrick Scott and Jeff Ballard.

On Friday June 7th pianist Dick Barten, guitarist Rolf Koppijn and double bassist Rob Veenhuizen will perform as "The Monkey Trio" in Caf In 't Aepjen, one of the two remaining historic wooden buildings in Amsterdam.

The trio plays an extensive repertoire. As a flexible rhythm section, they have already accompanied many large and small "fools of jazz" in Ghana, Jamaica, Thailand, Lithuania and Canada, among others. In Caf In't Aepjen, the men themselves are the center of attention.

At the age of 11 Irene started playing the saxophone and when she was 15 Irene introduced jazz into her life. After several studies in Spain, she moved to the Netherlands to obtain her Master's degree at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Ferdinand Povel as her senior teacher. There she had the opportunity to play with musicians such as Simon Rigter, Martijn van Iterson, Terell Staford and Rob van Bavel.

From 2008 to 2011, Irene played alto and baritone sax and clarinet with the Sant Andreu Jazz Band. With this band she recorded several CDs (Jazzing Live at Casa Fuster and Jazzsing vol. II). On the albums she played with Dick Oatts, Perico Sambeat, Jesse Davis, Scott Robinson as special guests.

On Friday afternoon June 7th Hans Dulfer and his band will open the 11th edition of the Red Light Jazz Festival in the world famous Casa Rosso Theater. Be aware! If you want to see this free concert of the still rousing Dutch saxophonist, come on time!

Bout du Monde (End of the World) is a quartet consisting of four musicians with a respectable track record. Drummer Richard Lems played with all the big names in the Dutch jazz world and beyond (from North Sea Jazz to Montreux). He graduated cum laude from the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music. Robert Mollee (saxophone) also has an enormous palmares. He has extensive experience in various styles of music and has performed in various line-ups with Ronald Douglas, Deborah Carter, Greetje Kauffeld, John Engels and many others. Joris Nederpelt Lazarom studied jazz piano at the Royal Conservatory, he played with various large and smaller orchestras at home and abroad and is a producer at his own 12notes.nl. Rob IJsendijk started his bass career in pop music and via Berklee College of Music and others soon ended up in jazz, playing many styles with countless different musicians.

The four musicians of Bout du Monde challenge each other every concert, searching for their musical limits. They know each other from various formations and have played together many times in various other combinations. Their first album 'Hirondelle' was released in 2020 and contains mostly pieces written by Steve Swallow. The second album of Bout du Monde named 'Uncovered' was released in 2022.

As son of National Boogie Woogie king Rob Hoeke, Ruben Hoeke was taught to make music at an early age. Ruben has now become a celebrity himself on his instrument: the electric guitar. He can easily be placed amongst the musicians who have lifted the Dutch blues to a higher level.

Since his first performance in 1992, he has toured the Netherlands continuously, played at festivals in Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Estonia, USA, Ireland, Luxembourg and Curaao, released thirteen albums in different musical genres and performed on stage with countless national and international top musicians.

Hermine Deurloo has rapidly developed into the most important voice on the harmonica.Gwilym Simcock can be counted among the "Inner Circle" of great contemporary pianists including Brad Mehldau, Keith Jarrett and Gonzalo Rubalcaba. He has also toured with classical violinist Nigel Kennedy, alongside such jazz heroes as Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler and Lee Konitz. His solo playing is legendary.

Mike Walker is a British guitar legend, having performed with Kenny Wheeler and Steve Swallow.The concert of these three giants will take you on a breathtaking exploration of rich harmonies, catchy melodies and groovy rhythms.

Three friends have found each other in the love of acoustic guitar music. With sufficient musical background, a healthy dose of humor, a certain age and a great desire for creating something new, they started a band in 2023.

One Bass & Two Guitars are Jeroen Heijne (double bass), Bob van Houten (guitar) and Rob Sepp (guitar). Their repertoire consists of swinging jazz, beautiful ballads, stirring gipsy jazz and driving bossa nova's. Improvising, going on a musical journey and making beautiful music is what these men are all about. And having fun, lots of fun.

It's the unfathomable, nonverbal conversation improvising musicians have that sax player Jelske Hoogervorst and guitarist Folker Tettero are trying to catch in their writing and playing with their duo formation Interplay.

Be it a lyrical ballad or an uptime swinging piece. Folker and Jelske traverse the pieces with great ease and a lot of fun to play. Despite the fact that there are only two of them, when listening to them you feel like there is a whole band playing.

The intimate setting the duo creates is an answer to today's society where everything has to be fast with immediate results. Folker and Jelske go for depth and longevity. Depth in fusing their instruments, allowing them to make an increasingly unified musical statement. The long haul, because they don't choose the easy way, but rather the way that comes from the heart and creates the greatest musical impact.

Driven by organ, guitar and propelled by percussion and drums, the members of SPARK are four wandering souls tied together by fate who have set out on one, bold mission: Lighting a fire. Using their skills and their drive they are chasing those good old burning tunes and together they meticulously ignite grooving rhythms combined with soulful melodies and jams.

Rooted deep in the tradition of legends like The Meters, Jimmy McGriff and Booker T., this fine bunch of kindred spirits sets out to create original tunes which will get you out of your seat and up on your feet dancing with a funky grin on your face all night long. Expect no less then dedicated musicians, igniting their passion to create one, big sizzling spark.

Tenor saxophonist Wouter Kiers is a well-known figure in the Dutch music world. The stage is his home. Wouter started playing the clarinet at the age of 9, but the tenor sax has been his instrument of choice since 1984. In 2000, Kiers toured Japan with Hans Dulfer. With fellow saxophonist Ruud de Vries, Wouter performed at the North Sea Jazz festival in 2002 with his then group 'Kiers & de Vries' and, in 2005, he performed with the Beatnach band from The Hague for 400,000 people at the Parkpop festival in The Hague. It was during this period that he created the Wouter Kiers Quartet.

With his quartet, Wouter plays well-known and lesser-known jazz tracks in the tradition of his saxophone heroes from the past such as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins.

Fan-Qi Wu, saxophonist Claudio Jr De Rosa and Michael are the frontline of the band, they will be supported by a rhythm section of excellent jazz musicians from the Netherlands. Michael Simon's Asian Connection already gave memorable concerts at the Taichung Jazz Festival in Taiwan and at the Borneo Jazz Festival in Malaysia. This special international collaboration can now be enjoyed at Sea Palace during the 11th Red Light Jazz festival.

Varekamp has been active for decades, not only as a trumpet player and singer but also as a composer, organizer, radio maker, theater producer and band leader. In the first half of the 1990s he was part of Fra Fra Sound, Fra Fra Big Band and Dutch Swing College Band, with which bands he traveled all over the world. He played with many internationally acclaimed jazz artists and at countless festivals. Emmery is best known in the jazz scene for his collaborations with Archie Shepp, Freddy Hubbard and Louis Hayes.

The duo Piep en Stok consists of guitarist Henk Sprenger and saxophonist Gideon Tazelaar. They met at the Junior Jazz College at the conservatory of Amsterdam. When in 2009 the PIEP-jonge (very young) Gideon was the only one to show up at the lesson of the STOK-oude (very old) Henk, they got the chance to play in duo.

Henk has played with the Skymasters and the Ramblers. Gideon played with Benjamin Herman, Theo Loevendie and many others. After he finished his study at the Amsterdam conservatory he studied at the famous Juilliard School in New York.

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